My only hope for 2008 is that I have the strength to get through it.

The dirt gave way under my bare feet, and I sank to my knees on top of the mountain, at that deserted overlook, and stared out at the valley below me ( Read more... )

Here's the thing about religion: How do you know? How do you know that me not taking Jesus Christ as my personal savior is going to land me a one-way ticket to the fiery depths of Hell? How do you know that living my life WITH God as opposed to FOR God is such a bad idea? How do you know that God isn't sitting back in his big, comfy reclining chair ( Read more... )

I felt young and alive tonight, and I'm glad that I'm saying good-bye to summer like this. We splashed and laughed and jumped into the water with our clothes on. We played Marco Polo and smoked cigarettes under an orange moon. We sank into the warm water and I thought of "Nightswimming" by REM and this one, laughing quietly underneathe my breathI ( Read more... )

So there's this guy. Who I work with. And he sort of asked me out. On sort of a pre-date. A pre-date as in, "Hey, after work one night, maybe the next time we close together or something, let's go grab some beers." Unquote ( Read more... )

Dude.

To kick off their U.S. comeback tour, the Smashing motherfucking Pumpkins will take RESIDENCE in ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA for NINE SHOWS AT THE ORANGE PEEL. And tickets are only twenty bucks ( Read more... )

I leave Asheville tomorrow. My parents will tell me, "Welcome home." It's not home. Home is something better ( Read more... )

So I will be in Cary for the summer instead of spending the majority of it in Biloxi. A family situation came up, and I know that it's more important to be home, where I'm needed. I am heartbroken, and I am angry, but I won't tell my parents that. I'll just tell them that I didn't have the money, so they won't feel as guilty. They didn't want me to ( Read more... )

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." - Kurt Vonnegut ( Read more... )

I am holding in my hand an official letter from the Literature Department's Creative Writing professors.

"Congratulations, Ms. Marshall. You are one of the 2007 Comfort Scholarship winners."

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THAT'S RIGHT, BITCHES!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!