this cannot be the way to write a novel, because 'girl, interrupted' and 'prozac nation' have already been written... like them, there was once unmitigated potential, but i never saw it; it was simply taken for granted and danced upon like so many devil's skulls in a self-absorbed attempt to make myself Happy... funny how it all works out, isn't it ( Read more... )

Many lives follow a linear progression, according to us by societal, familial, economic expectations - whether manifest in form or merely in theory, they play themselves out with the simple languidity of a summer's harvest, of the body-shattering pains of labour and the spiritual exhaltation thereafter, of the materialistic cacophony of items saved ( Read more... )

my heart felt like it was singing for a moment, just from a comment from ( Read more... )

today has been, simply put, one of those juicy, irritating, painful, annoying, sensation-packed bodily days - to put it bluntly. days that always begin at 5:30 am with that FEELING of knowing 'eh, yep. i've got that damn thing again;' a finger down the pants, brought back up bloody... get up, go to bathroom, shove some toilet paper up there, wadded ( Read more... )

"In Revelations it says the water will turn to blood," said P.J. Hahn, director of coastal zone management for Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. "That's what it looks like out here - like the Gulf is bleeding. This is going to choke the life out of everything."

He added: "It makes me want to cry."

'great spirits have always encountered strong opposition from mediocrities. the latter cannot stand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.' [albert einstein, 1940 ( Read more... )

and i don't know how to handle it anymore, and there is no one who doesn't think i'm psychotic ( Read more... )

i told my father today that i have a plane ticket to cancun ( Read more... )

i don't know what to say, besides that it has finally become real, or at least, i would be out $129 if i didn't get on this plane, this plane that will be leaving at 9:00 a.m. from o'hare international airport, to be landing in cancun 4 hours later. i have a ticket for that plane. clicking the 'purchase' button is always such an exhilarating ( Read more... )

... is to live dangerously [nietzsche ( Read more... )