I feel so old and tired but also so afraid and vunerable. I'm getting ready for my brain to be completely restarted in college, along with my heart. Very strange, this whole severing of ties. I did the wrong thing and tied myself to two people for the past two, almost three years. Caitlin it's been more like... 5 or 6 years ( Read more... )

We are so entwined that I am not concious of it anymore, I like to imagine I can feel you when we are apart. And when we part I know I will fully appreciate and curse every unconcious tangled string we have woven into each other.

The computer is very strange. On the one hand, there is this unlimited range of communication. Myspace puts everyone within a click ( Read more... )

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Eben Hoeffer (dramaster extrodinare) and my boyfriend Joel Janson (pretty boy with a darkside) and their band are playing at the Loveland tonight for a mere 7$, doors open at 6:30.

The Loveland is located at:

320 SE 2nd Ave
Portland, OR 97214-1022
(503) 234-5683

www.mapquest.com
Hope to see you all there!

Ah, writing. Delicious blank slate surging with possibility ( Read more... )

"How is resurrecting every stereotype of female sexuality that feminism endeavored to banish good for women? Why is laboring to look like Pamela Anderson empowering? How is imitating a stripper or a porn star going to render us sexually liberated?"
-Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

School has been particularily horrible recently. I've been having to deal with passive-agressive incompetent teachers, one in particular who has cited me with an "attitude problem ( Read more... )

So it looks like I am going to SOU, a university in Ashland. I got my permit today as well, so I feel old. It will be good to get out of the city, my blood can't take much more steel or car pollution.

In this study, which appears in the April 2 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers compared the IQ scores of 70 participants before they started smoking pot (aged 9-12) with their current scores at age 17-20. Among heavy users who currently smoked more than five joints a week, IQ scores dropped by an average of 4.1 points ( Read more... )