I've been thinking of you a lot lately, and other boys, too, at the most inopportune times. It's 12:30 and double espresso now and I have a psych paper to write and every word I type seems to echo the cassete tape I play in my head when I start wishing again, wishing that you would consider me. I try to combat Easter Sunday with a mantra of ( Read more... )

i could live days like this over and over again ( Read more... )

i really like the idea of alternative treatments in psychology, mostly because they're driven by the idea that therapy may just boil down to having somebody who's willing to listen and help you sort things out--friends as therapists--and a recognition that body&mind can't really be separated. i'm soooo new age-y ( Read more... )

i started with the fragmentation and reflection last year, maybe first with the pencil and paper clip over a bit of broken mirror.  then i did me as seen in a showerhead, several small full reflections on top of one large almost indiscernible background reflection of just my nose and lips.  last was the view from the passenger's seat of my mother's ( Read more... )

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unsolicited hugs:
"make me so happy! make me feel so good!"
(shout with southern accent, like you're proclaiming the good news)

the wind scraped like teeth across the doorway and I felt it in the back of my throat. the next morning I knew the power of premonition--chest cradling a cough, mind carefully tending to my doubts. sure you won't love me, but who wants a shoulder to cry over anyway? bedridden, I awoke to deny my feverish chimaeras and I ripped my heart off my ( Read more... )

Judy wrote the saddest song ( Read more... )

observation:
when it's windchill of negative twenty outside, the ice doesn't sound the same as those [positive] twenty-five degree days. it sounds like glass or plastic, depending how your foot hits it. strange that it would still melt into watertoday was quite enjoyable. the bosnian red cross screening man boosted it from a mid-range 7 to a ( Read more... )