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my "let's work 10 days in a row, because i'm crazy" is over. and i have more days off in this next week than i have had all summer long. and tomorrow is my last day of summer. it was the longest summer of my life, and i probably say that every summer of my life. either way. it was a summer, unlike most summers. a lot of shit happened. yea. so i am ( Read more... )

there’s something about the look in your eyes 
something i noticed when the light was just right 
it reminded me twice that i was alive and 
it reminded me that you’re so worth the fight 
my biggest fear will be the rescue of me 
strange how it turns out that way 
could you show me dear, 
something i've not seen? 
something infinitely interesting 
could you ( Read more... )

i emailed my mom about her surgery. i am relieved it's over and done with. for some reason being affectionate to her or my dad makes me all kinds of emotional and i cry a lot when affection is expressed on either their end or mine. but it's done. her appointment is thursday. we'll see what the doctor has to say. i'm sacred and i know she is to. ( Read more... )

i've been eating like a mad-woman. all of a sudden i have an appetite of a 300 pound man. it kinda sucks cause i gained most of the weight back...so i'm a steady 108 again. oh well. school starts soon, which means i'll be walking all around campus all the time. so whatever. eat up while i can. i made dinner for kristian tonight. it was good to ( Read more... )

on august 26, 1920, carrie chapman catt celebrated the winning of the vote for women with a speech including these words:
the vote is the emblem of your equality, women of america, the guarantee of your liberty. that vote of yours has cost millions of dollars and the lives of thousands of women. money to carry on this work has been given usually as ( Read more... )

i've been avoiding my parents and i hate it, but it's so hard. my dad finally went back to work monday (or he was supposed to) after being out for a month for depression. we got really close the last month and had a few dinners together. instead of sitting in silence i let him vent his frustrations about my brother and my mother to me. he has been ( Read more... )

degress is not a word. moe's on 54 will give you the other half of the kids meal (which includes the drink and cookie) and charge you the amount you are supposed to be charged for, instead denying you the drink and cookie and charging you extra for a normal drink because you're 21 and eat in smaller portions. for your information, this is the only ( Read more... )

spend all your time waiting
for that second chance 
for  a break that would make it ok
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day 
i need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seep from my veins
let me be empty and weightless
and maybe i'll find some peace tonight

bennett and andrew knocked on my window around 8:00 and gave be a surprise visit. it was good to see bennett since he had been gone all summer and things are getting less awkward with andrew and i...overall i felt like i was ten. we did what we normally do and went swimming. it reminded me of when gina and i would ride our bikes around mickey's ( Read more... )