ONCE upon a time, in a land not so far away, there was a little girl named Megan with hair that resembled muddy straw.  Her first grade teacher thought that she might be mentally challenged because she never did her phonics book; she never did grow to like rules very much.  Her third grade teacher made her sit behind a pizza box away from the other ( Read more... )

It seems as though my life sucks away my will to live.

In just about a day from now, I'll be eighteen.  It's sort of hard to believe that I'm going to be an adult.  I drink coffee, read the newspaper, wear sweaters, follow politics, but I certainly don't feel mature.  When it comes down to it, I'm just a little kid still, lost and vulnerable ( Read more... )

I think I've decided.

I'll let it sit for two weeks.

I'm lucky.

I know that I am.  Most people don't get to choose between two ridiculously good colleges, or between their two favorite schools.  In the back of my mind, I know this.  I know I'll be happy at either, and I'm deleriously happy to have gotten into both.  I know I could have it a whole lot worse.

But, somehow, it doesn't make the buzzing in ( Read more... )

It was taken some time ago ( Read more... )

How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city-arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals-had all
one fine day gone under?

I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.
Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city -

white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting
under fanlights and low skies to ( Read more... )

It's one in the morning, the day after getting back from Japan, and I can't fall asleep, probably because it feels like three in the afternoon.

Good thing I have to be up for school in about five hours.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007

1. w00t (interjection)
expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word "yay" w00t! I won the contest!

1. facebook
   
2. conundrum
   
3. quixotic
   
4. blamestorm
   
5. sardoodledom
   

Lit (or: to the scientist I am not speaking to any more)
by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Don’t say you didn’t see this coming, Jason.

Don’t say you didn’t realize this would be my reaction
and that you never intended for me to get all worked up,
because if that were true, then you are dumber
than Lenny from Mice and Men, blinder than Oedipus
and Tierus put ( Read more... )