Leave it to ani difranco to be able to express exactly how I feel:

"i'm sorry i didn't sound more excited on the phone ( Read more... )

There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today
-"Another Day", RentIn Reply ( Read more... )

Softly she said once ( Read more... )

All good things must come to an end, and so it goes, and so it goes.

That's it, folks.
That's all she wrote.

These discordant melodies ( Read more... )

You are my sunshine,

my only sunshine,

you make me happy,

when skies are grey.

You'll never know dear,

how much I love you,

please don't take my sunshine away.
My Opa used to sing that all the time, before his oxygen tank got in the way. Now he just hums snatches of it here and there, only he used to change "sunshine" to "moonshine". It was ( Read more... )

I am familiar with the old adage It is far better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.

I am not convinced that this is true.
I opened her old emails tonight - the most recent one dating to two years ago almost exactly. How was it that we lost touch so quickly? Our correspondance was sporadic at best, she being at university in Kiev, ( Read more... )

The Navy called this evening.

Hello, may I speak to Stephanie please? This is she. How are you? Fine, thanks, how are you? May I ask who is calling? I'm fine thanks. This is...Navy recruitment...you filled out...

I don't remember filling out a damn thing. I mean, aside from the Academy. But I withdrew from that months ago.
I'm afraid I'm no ( Read more... )

There is nothing like a challenge to force me to do my best. I am currently enrolled in a political science course, on scholarship, and the professor pulled me aside the first day and basically (politely) told me that he's had high school students before who couldn't hack it. Do you think you can?
He has no idea that's all it took to make me come ( Read more... )

A fun alphabetical survey (because I can't resist).

A - Accent: People assure me I don't really have one - a bit Northern sounding to the Southerners, and a bit Southern sounding to the Northerners. This comes from being the Woman with No Cultural Identity (that's what growing up near the Mason Dixon line will do for you).

B - Breast size: 36 C.
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