for most of my life, i've been the best at everything i've set out to do. in elementary school, i was one of two kids in my class who were always being bussed out to creative writing workshops and other 'gifted & talented' programs; in middle school, i was first chair flute player for three consecutive years in the county-wide orchestra; in high ( Read more... )

There are some days when I'm content. I look at the Facebook pages of old friends - my elementary school best friend, who just had a lovely beach wedding; my high school best friend who hosted her first Thanksgiving dinner at the house she's just bought with her husband; my college best friend, who has just landed the dream job she's been aiming ( Read more... )

at the risk of sounding like a petulant child, am feeling a bit down and need to
so i've been in L.A. for about a month now, and am still not much better off than when i arrived. i haven't had a response to any of the jobs i've applied to or any of the speculative resumes i've sent out, aside from the newspaper interview (which i've still not heard ( Read more... )

well, i suppose since it's been nearly five months since i last wrote anything - ANYTHING at all, besides the odd facebook message and journalistic things - i suppose i'm due for an update ( Read more... )

think i fixed the pictures in the last entry - sorry about that! x

"the only thing that ruins writers is not writing" -- theresa rebeck

is kind of sad that i've had next to nothing to do over the past two weeks, my laptop in my suitcase and a cozy coffee shop with free wi-fi up the road, and a massive stack of magazines for inspiration, but i've still not managed to write ANYTHING since I've been home - even though ( Read more... )

wearing: black / gold striped oversized sweater worn as a dress over little black shorts, thick black tights, black woolly knee socks & motorcycle boots. also wearing gold mudflap girl pendant on gold chain
hair: tousled & slightly wavy, worn in a half-up bridgette bardot incarnation
thing last said: "thanks, good night"
last website visited: my space ( Read more... )

a bit late, but...happy new year ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
visited africa, germany and portugal; went to wimbledon; went on several blind dates that actually ended up being ok...to be honest, i feel like this has been a kind of disappointing year in terms of experiencing new things

2. Did you keep your new years' resolution, and will you make more for ( Read more... )

i'm in the middle of reading henry james' 'portrait of a lady,' which ,from what i can gather at this point (am not very far along), is the story of a 23-year old american orphan who gets whisked away to europe by her wealthy aunt and learns to navigate the strange customs of the europeans. there was a line i read today that really stuck out:

You ( Read more... )