I have 8 days to decide where I am going to graduate school.

Is anyone even still on here?

I was reminded about how much of a total geek I am yesterday ( Read more... )

Just spent wasted an entire morning.

It began productively. That means coffee, of course. I called my mom, then brought out my writing stuff. Decided to re-familiarize myself with my project and researched one sentence summaries. That is, I tried to find one sentence summaries of books/ movies/ TV shows I knew well. I did not find them. What I did ( Read more... )

... because I have nothing better to write about, but promised I would write something even (especially) when I didn't have time ( Read more... )

"Listen. I don't like to preach, but here's some advice. You'll meet a lot of jerks in life. If they hurt you, remember it's because they're stupid. Don't react to their cruelty. There's nothing worse than bitterness and revenge. Keep your dignity and be true to yourself."

I think I've finally learned this.

"And I'll cross oceans like never before
So you can feel the way I feel it too
And I'll mirror images back at you
So you can see the way I feel it too"

Alright, so it was only my journal... but they are pretty much the same thing ( Read more... )

(Actually, this is from Joan Didion's "Why I Write," but I like Anne Lamott's title better.)

"All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover who I was.
Which was a writer.
By which I mean not a "good" writer or a "bad" writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and ( Read more... )

You'd be surprised how much you like the person you have become becuase of the things you wish had never happened.

(At least... I am.)

Maybe I know, somewhere ( Read more... )