New layout!
(Do people even change their layouts anymore these days?)

... I think there are maybe about 4 people, in the entire world, who still use livejournal. I, however, will remain loyal for the rest of my days ... even if it means only updating about 6 times a year.

Just one day after making my Myspace profile public and I'm already getting messages like this:

Subject:  Chelsea quick question

You actually are a pretty girl that seems very intelligent (with a good taste in music), so don't take this as an insult. This is a random message from three guys watching golf. Some of us are bored and did a random myspace ( Read more... )

Like neutral colored sand
in the fist of a child's hand
I'm gripping tightly to You
making sure no piece falls through.

And I'm collecting shapes and patterns,
then fitting them together,
to create a perfect picture
of what You want from me.

Please, I just need to see

So I'll race with every sunset
and rise with every morning
to cut and size and paste and tie
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I don't like this at all.

I need my dad so much.
I used to just sit with him and tell him everything that I was struggling with and he just listened.  And he would hug me for so long and wipe the tears from my face and say such perfect things.  God I would give anything to have him back.  
I'm still not ready.  It's been a year and a half and I'm still not ready to be without ( Read more... )

Tell me when it happened
when you realized you had lied
and that all the things you said about me
were only a disguise

Tell me when it ended
the pursuit of fleeting time
when everything you wanted 
no longer lived inside my eyes

I never claimed to be anything
and I only held what you gave to me
so why am I the one whos been left behind?
I never planned on ( Read more... )

Sometimes, out of no where, I imagine seeing my dad somewhere completely unexpected.  I imagine that he's just there ... walking, moving, breathing ... as if everything were normal.  And he sees me and realizes what this means; that I've thought, this whole time, that he had passed away and that now I'm seeing him, alive, for the first time.  And ( Read more... )

Livejournal hates me and never wants to let me use LJ-cut.  So, I'm forced to post pictures the old-fashioned way.  Don't hate me.

Ahem.
Sometimes, when I hang out with Leah, my face does weird things:

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Hey, if you have time, please fill out this survey for me for my paper on poverty.  Feel free to comment anonymously .. just make sure to say whether you are male or female!  PLEASE don't look up the answers, as it will totally defeat the purpose of the survey.  Just answer with what you think.  Thanks so much!

1.  Do most people bring poverty on ( Read more... )

I'm scared to say what I think I know ( Read more... )