After a conversation with one of my roommates tonight - kind of a thinking aloud sort of thing, about people we know who are either best friends, couples, childhood friends, etc. - I feel slightly isolated and self-doubtful. Why is it that everyone here seems to have a place, or some settled-in feeling - either a best friend, or a significant ( Read more... )

I feel like a tornado just spun through here;
picked me up and tossed me + my little world around
and then fast as it came it's gone:
the silence + stillness more pronounced than before.

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I heard this song on the radio last night. It's never on the radio. Beautiful beautiful ( Read more... )

Oh Mike. Oh me ( Read more... )

It's not fully formed, complete, or has all the features (especially commenting) or even much substance so far. But hey, I built it from scratch, which is what I wanted, and that's where you ought to look if you want to keep up with me from now on:

http://www.greene-girl.com/Like I said before, I'll still be here. I'll definitely still be ( Read more... )

"Tell me one last thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"There's tons of stuff I could write about right now, but - like so many others - I spent my weekend with Harry Potter. And oh, it was so ( Read more... )

I get a lot of ideas a lot of the time. A lot of them are kinda wacky, a lot of them are impractical, and every now and then a few will be implementably good ( Read more... )

I had my hair cut - againish? - yesterday, and was feeling cheeky - as usual? - and figured, hey, let's be a little different and get BANGS. Not hardcore bangs (think Ugly Betty) but sort of side-swept ones (think Keira Knightley). See Figures 1A and 1B below.

Figure 1A: No*


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Washington: The Supreme Court tightened limits on student speech yesterday, ruling against a high school student and his 14-foot-long "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner. Schools may prohibit student expression that can be interpreted as advocating drug use, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 5-4 ruling.Bong Hits 4 Jesus??? Hahahahahha ( Read more... )

When someone has been such a poisonous presence in your life for a considerable period of time, it's such a good shock to find out how they really tick, when how they really tick is barely at all. I don't know why I let stupid people get to me in the first place. Knowing what I know now, I'm content to let them just live (or something resembling ( Read more... )

My mother just informed me that, when she was growing up in Joplin, Missouri, the place had a day called "Western Day." On that day, if you were going downtown, you had to be wearing something western - maybe a cowboy hat, boots, whatever. If you weren't, you had to pay a penalty, which, in the case she best remembers, involved putting the party ( Read more... )