...which I have been horribly negligent in telling you about ( Read more... )

As it's the only possible course of action, I'm going to go bake bread and read mindfuck poetry.

But I promise that the real post will be coming just as soon as I finish this chemistry test (and get 100 on it). I have a month of snippets to show you.

also
five days is an absurdly long time

without words to express emotion but the need to have an outlet

Glow

I don't keep my memories in a box, but leave them scattered across my room. My experiences built me, so I don't want to tuck them away and only take them out to finger and remember when I'm feeling nostalgic; instead, I leave good and bad remnants of the past spread haphazardly. The small crystal butterfly that Daniel's mom gave me at his ( Read more... )

Tonight I could easily be "that girl." I'm giddy and reckless, teasing strangers and cracking jokes I'd normally chuckle about in my head but not share with the world. When I spin, my skirt flies straight out from my hips; if I'd had the presence of mind to realize how much leg I was exposing, I would have rearranged it a bit for the sake of ( Read more... )

Wednesday (or Thursday, maybe?) we loaded everything into the van. A couch, two desks, clothes, photos, cooking supplies, and all the relevant tangibles in my life. Then we loaded ourselves into the front of the van and headed towards Crystal City to pick up furniture that my roommate had bought but neglected to pick up. C navigated, translating ( Read more... )

I haven't done laundry. And I hate you.

update to come

please note that Ms. Mayhem has an exemption from the mass hating. My ring is absolutely beautiful! I will email very soon

I live in a fairytale. A twisted fairytale, but nonetheless.

Walking into the Salvadorean restaurant, the teens lounging in the entryway made lascivious comments about me in Spanish. Later, when I stood up from my table at the same time that two latinos got up from a neighboring one, they politely and respectfully stepped back to let me go first ( Read more... )