So all is well with the graduating from college, spending my summer babysitting, moving to France for my English teaching assistantship (maybe not the "enjoying life immensely" that I anticipated, since French people have been kind of awful to me). But a few things have changed on the timeline I drew for myself a while back. Here's the latest in my ( Read more... )

So lately I'm feeling less than stellar, which is weird because just over a week ago I was professing my awesomeness to the world in a very annoyingly happy way. I'm not necessarily sad, but I'm not feeling as great as I was feeling for most of the summer. Like always, Gala Darling comes through like a charm with 100 Things to Do When You're Upset ( Read more... )

So I like the idea of these road trip suggestions made by Andrew McMahon of Something Corporate/Jack's Mannequin in his blog: http://www.jacksmannequin.com/blog/andrew/america-through-bug-stained-windshieldHere's an excerpt for reference! There is so much here, and I don't know if I'd like it all, but music is wonderful and I'm always collecting ( Read more... )

Hello, I had sucha wonderful wonderful time today! That was such an awesome a ( Read more... )

1. Party in the USA
2. Baby
3. Summer Breeze
4. Le Festin
5. Hey There Delilah
6. Good Gone Girl
7. Pretend (by Lights)
8. Witch Hunt (by El Creepo)
9. You Belong With Me
10. Our Song (by Taylor Swift)
11. Somewhere Only We Know
12. The Most Beautiful Girl In the Room (about 75% memorized)

Livejournal really seems to be dying! Plus, seeing all the damaging, unsavory outlets kids have in today's Internet (see Gawker lately) makes me sad that the next generation is missing out on the cathartic experience of relieving stress through writing and instead turns to ridiculous pranks and video mongering. We should all strive to be a better ( Read more... )

There is certainly some sort of stigma to the business of "gifted" people but for that reason I won't comment much on the fact that this article is called "Adolescence and gifted: Addressing existential dread." I was just struck by this line:

It will be many years before the adolescent sees the accumulation of questions as wisdom.There are a lot ( Read more... )

I am up at 2:40 in the morning because it is SUMMER and I am massaging my iTunes with listens to my favorite songs and the songs I've acquired in 2010 (148 so far). I wish I could do a playlist of the 2009 acquisitions too, but I got a new computer in November so my "date added" category is effed. I am also scouring Amazon and iLike for new music I ( Read more... )

Been revisiting the insecure angst of the year 2003 in my old journal. Absolute favorite portion so far:

RANTRANTRANTRANTRANT[I'm paraphrasing]THE WORLD IS ONE BIG FAT STUPID

DICK

AND I CAN'T STAND IT

What blessed, precious imagery. I was such a little gem.

There is really no adequate cyberspace where updates of this nature are acceptable, because all social media implies that people read your journaly thoughts, but journaly thoughts are usually the strictly keep-it-to-your-goddamn-self kind by nature. So putting journaly thoughts online implies that people will read them, but they really should not ( Read more... )