so yesterday morning, I graduated from highschool. this was preceded by 4 consecutive days of performances, refereeing between parents, answering literally no ones phone calls (i actually am sorry about this) and not exactly saying my goodbyes. i thought that postponing farewells would lead to some huge overwhelming wave of separation anxiety, but ( Read more... )

so i finished highschool approximately 35 minutes ago and... yes, this is all very emotional. last delp class, winning the nonfiction magazine contest, last portfolio conference, followed by last street beat tonight and pretty soon, last graduation ceremony, which is by chance, my own ( Read more... )

so don't we all love how i never write in this thing often enough to talk about my life except as a list-form play-by-play recap? yeah, i love that too. the only remotely emotionally-laden image I can give you is that MB is once again a horrific maze of towering stacked cardboard boxes which I cannot help but equate with the labyrinth of my very ( Read more... )

okay now I'm finally secure enough. to post some things I know.

so um. things I know.1. In 5 days, I will turn 18 ( Read more... )

i spent all this morning giving a presentation on horror as a cathartic medium and now all i want to do is watch the texas chainsaw massacre and forget my fears. i get into this weird place right after i've purged myself of a major responsibility, where my eyes water and my back muscles tangle and my brain keeps crawling up the walls of my skull ( Read more... )

so robin william's daughter is coming here next year as a VA. not to be confused with VD. in other news Interlochen is now middle aged movie hero offspring campus OF THE STARS.

shut up you know what i mean.

solitary event which made my entire life worth living:

on page ten of Driscoll's new book, How Like An Angel, he used my name in an obscure reference to a barroom waitress.

I FEEL SO FAMOUS.

yeah so i'm hungry and distracted ( Read more... )

okay. so i went away to visit college this weekend blah blah blah its all very exciting but in the midst of it, i got possibly THE WORST news of the past few months.

namely, my dog died.


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( shameless happytime gloating, please ignore. )