It's... almost April. So there's April, May, June-- and then we graduate ( Read more... )

I don't really have anything to talk about. I just love that lyric from Dar Williams that I needed to use it somewhere, and decided to stick it as the subject line of a rather pointless entry ( Read more... )

(note: i wrote this when i was in argentina, in october. i wrote it up to submit it to my school's literary magazine, thought i should post it here as well.)I visited Recoleta Cemetary this morning, a veritable city of the dead, filled with avenues of crypts and alleyways of tombs. I wandered down paved walks, crypts carved with elaborate flowers ( Read more... )

Here it is. The Anti-College essay ( Read more... )

"Societies will always produce subgroups as varied as computer nerds, valley girls, and drug pushers, who think and behave in different ways."

And this is brought to you by a very respected linguistics journal, and very famous linguistic researcher. :D teehee.

So sometimes I think of these statements about me that are very declarative, just little things that I think define me well. I want to share them with people, but there's never a good time or situation. So I've decided to write two of them here and if this inspires you to think up some of your own (or maybe you think of them too) share them ( Read more... )

I am fascinated by the preppy boys who say surprisingly meaningful things in English class. I suppose this is because I have always tried to balance the two- life with academia, but these kids are people who don’t: they’re usually the people staring at the clock, only wanting to get by with minimal effort. Their lives are more important than the ( Read more... )

I am going insane. AND I LOVE IT ( Read more... )

I've decided- I really, really like being a senior.

There's this sense of transience that hangs over everything and makes you feel vaguely comforted- you'll be gone next year. this is it. who cares? Today just really made me realize that being a senior was, in fact, a Big Deal. And yes, I'm going to capitalize that. So, the day that sparked this ( Read more... )

So, I found my old online journal today and found an entry titled "first day of high school." Direct quote:

Today, I’ve just been mainly thinking one refrain over and over in my mind: how the hell do people- and how will I- survive high school?Tomorrow is the Last First Day. And even though I love my friends and I (mostly) love school, I'm more ( Read more... )