so my sister and i were just brushing our teeth together, both on our way to bed. and she's got a fever which my mom, brother jack and grandma all also have. and so i was like "youre not gonna wash your face? ew" and she goes "i dont feel up to it." and i was like "what?" and she repeated "i don't feel up to it ( Read more... )

right so my sister's boyfriend just dropped off a really thoughtful present and a letter that says on the outside "open alone" and i pretended to try to steal it out of her hands and my mom told me to stop. and i, kidding, said "aw but i want someone to write me a letter that says open alone" and my mom comes up and puts her arm around me and was ( Read more... )

so we watched napoleon dynamite last night and while it was going on i hated it but it was hilarious after the fact. kind of the same impression i got from zoolander. napoleon dynamite was a good movie because it was different. and weird in a different kind of way. wow articulate ( Read more... )

"i'm not what's missing ( Read more... )

My eyes are going all blurry, and I know I'm going to cry again. I'm suddenly so furious that my voice comes out almost in a shriek when I demand, "How are we supposed to stand it? How the hell are we supposed to blithely pack our things and leave this place and pretend that everything is fine when we have to go back to the stupid, pointless, idiot ( Read more... )

I stand up from studying to pour my coffee, which I made a while ago but my machine keeps hot, or kind of. And I'm standing in that in-between moment, staring at the swept-up snow and the tinted-window cars, the subway stop, reflections of white christmas lights. And I think, this is where I live. Or, this is my life. And the realization almost ( Read more... )

i'm broke again ( Read more... )

in summer, waiting for night, we'd pose against the afterglow on corners, watching traffic cruise through the neighborhood. sometimes, a car would go by without its headlights on and we'd all yell, "lights ( Read more... )

k a t i e 7 n y: ooh so advice ( Read more... )

"it happens every day ( Read more... )