Welcome to 2008, the beginning of the end, the year of graduation, of starting over.  It's strange to think that I'm finally here, actually facing everything.  2008 has been a fact in my brain for a long enough period of time (perhaps since seventh grade, thinking how six years is something akin to forever) to seem surreal, more of a fact than a ( Read more... )

Being depressed and going on Facebook is a dreadful combination ( Read more... )

“He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.”

--Friedrich Nietzsche

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond ( Read more... )

I am pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to the University of Chicago, Class of 2012.

Alright, so I'm supposed to be studying for, I don't know, my three tests tomorrow, but I can't stop thinking about the fact that letters are coming in the mail that will determine how I spend four years of my future, and I can't stop oscillating between really wanting to get in and really not wanting to be bound to go, all the while wondering ( Read more... )

Right now, I'm making a three-dimensional (because x and y just aren't enough!) paper snowflake out of a billion colours of origami paper from directions that I found on the internet.  Cutting and folding and taping paper is evidently a good remedy to an awful day where I had a huge inferiority complex and felt pathetic and useless in comparison to ( Read more... )

I dwell in Possibility--
A fairer House than Prose--
More numerous of Windows--
Superior--for Doors--

Of Chambers as the Cedars--
Impregnable of Eye--
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky--

Of Visitors--the fairest--
For Occupation--This--
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise--

I have a serious itch to do something creative.

I have this energy built up inside me, clawing its way out.  I want to draw, to paint, to write.  It has to be something new, something I haven't done before.  I want to create something.  (This is what being trapped at home does to a person.)

October 4

An
English Language Learner’s
Word of the Day

smutty
 
Function: adjective

Comparative and superlative forms: smuttier; smuttiest

Status: informal & disapproving

Meaning:
: obscene or indecent : about sex in a way that is offensive
Examples:
smutty jokes.>
smutty magazine>