recently i've decided, upon careful deliberation, that i'm probably ( Read more... )

summer reading update:

white oleander by janet fitch (complete)
girl with a pearl earring by tracy chevalier (complete)
twelve by nick mcdonell (complete)
the stepford wives by ira levin (complete)

up next: because they wanted to by mary gaitskill

i really enjoyed the stepford wives so i'm not ( Read more... )

lately i've been flirting with the idea of keeping a paper journal ( Read more... )

so i spent my nineteenth birthday watching reruns of dawson's creek,
experimenting with hair products, getting dysfunctional with the family,
and gorging on cake with traci (relativism).

admittedly not the most glamorous of ways to celebrate but i am
happy at the moment and, really, what more could i ask for?


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earlier i realized that i've had this journal for about a year
so i figured the occasion merited some kind of update.

random thoughts/observations:

- my cuticles are still stained red from picking strawberries the other day.
- finished white oleander weeks ago. i'm now halfway through girl with a pearl earring- these days i wonder if jed is lying ( Read more... )

"Compared to this eternal body, the individual was a smoke, a cloud.
The body was the only reality."

"I hurt, therefore I am."

could it be true that we hurt each other only to verify or
validate our existences?

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an online conversation with my mother ( Read more... )

currently reading: white oleander
author: janet fitch
progress: p. 205/446

it has been so long since i've devoured a book like i have this one.
the style is simply beautiful.

( my summer reading list... )

sunday morning and i am finding it difficult to focus ( Read more... )