I have 500 words to convince the scholarship committee I'm worth 4,000 dollars, but at least 20 more songs to discover before I get around to writing them. Only 6 days home and I prefer to spend them on the couch, on the computer, or in the kitchen. I'm not very good at calling people; it's a surprise how alienated I feel from Tulsa, but with ( Read more... )

Privacy is defined in terms of having control over the extent, timing, and circumstances of sharing oneself (physically, behaviorally, or intellectually) with others.
-NIH tutorial on using human subjects for research

i once asked my roommate at quartz mountain what kind of punctuation she would be if she had to identify herself that way. she of course said an exclamation point (this girl knocked on every door on the hall to introduce herself to girls who later treated her like she was crazy instead of quirky and friendly). I used to consider myself ( Read more... )

some boys are so unremarkable looking that you can't be sure if you've seen them since you had that great conversation with them ( Read more... )

I'm watching the stars swivel around polaris. ursa major spills her soup and orion chases his prey from east to west. another long thursday night, and friday hasn't dawned yet.

I'm not sure how much longer I can continue to be both incredibly unmotivated and a perfectionist.

"I started on page one with a conversation between a couple who had found themselves lost while driving. The last sentence I recorded, while my eyes were practically closed, was " Holy spirits in overcoats and gallant ladies on horseback struggle to read minds contained in heads turned backwards, and I am the only man in this entire army who ( Read more... )

i was driving home tonight and i put the car in park at the lonely intersection. no, not lonely, but alone. i ran to the middle and yelled, "I am alive" and then the changing stoplights scared me back into my driver's seat ( Read more... )

do the whirlwind, don't abandon ( Read more... )

I'm taking a break from writing my sociology final to record a few lines of "Civilization and Its Discontents" that made Freud seem not quite so crazy ( Read more... )

morning class cancelled ( Read more... )