so much for the airbags, steel framework, brakes, tires, or break-away windshield that was supposed to save my life. i'm alive, but only by three feet and a turn of the wheel. and they want me to ride up to north carolina in a packed car with some kids i barely know for some sisterhood weekend, fuck no!

so the first week of school is over, and...


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so, just in case you get the compelling notion to send mail down to columbia ( Read more... )

oh, glorious, muggy city of not-so-bright lights here i come!*

i hope that ready is the right word.

so, i finished my lovely knitting (minus the darning and button-holing). and i'm most certainly not looking forward to waking up in five hours to move my step-sister to columbia. i believe the purpose of this post is to announce that i'm going into college with 21 hours of credit and a 4.0 thanks to my A in philosophy 102. and that's the only time ( Read more... )

"i'm done, i'm done!" said the philosophy exam.

i swear that's what happened, you know. it was like kierkegaard and james started having this really kickass conversation and i just took notes. and i thought this stuff was for people with nothing else to do but sit around and think. psha, i could SO do this for the rest of my life.

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it's amazing what you can will yourself to forget--places, people, whole bits of your life. i don't think my efforts at this have been intentional; something in my brain clicked recently, a switch turned off and certain parts of the last two years were deleted to make room for whatever college may bring. this cannot be anything but good. so what if ( Read more... )

why my weekend was so much better than yours:

1. molly's goats
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i need to hire someone to follow me around with some sort of air horn or cymbals to repeatedly make loud noises whenever i make a bad decision, which i think would be much better than the "i told you so" ringing in my head. then i wouldn't feels so dumb days/weeks after i make what i think will be a "brilliant plan that will work out according to ( Read more... )

most of the time i would say that i am a pretty levelheaded person--my anger is normally quick, as soon as i can even imagine some sort of revenge or come up with a nasty thought the spark is out. i'm that much of a pacificist, i can't even let myself stay mad ( Read more... )