My So-Called Life life lesson: "People throwing themselves at people is, like, the basis of civilization."

"I war with myself." I go back and forth on what I want a hundred times a day.

The wind is ferocious tonight.

"Mostly, I am excited that this baby will have you as an older sister, and not just because you will both need someone to call to complain about the fact that your parents are nuts. Sure, there will be times when you'll both try to kill each other either through physical brutality or embarrassment, but I know that at some point this baby is going ( Read more... )

Patience is a virtue. One more week of studying before a couple weeks of drinkin' and messin' around and palin' around and layin' around readin' books.

Dear everyone including my cat Gracie,
I don't know what you want from me.
Love,
Maggie

I'm tired of being upset about this semester.

"Libraries enjoy a unique place in the public imagination: they are perhaps the only publicly funded institution people actually like. Unlike the rest of twenty-first century America, the library does not seek to maximize profit or develop markets. The library is a non-coercive public space where books, movies, music-the stuff of ideas and of ( Read more... )

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The extent to which this semester is kicking my ass is astonishing.

"'What do any of us really know about love?' Herb said. 'I kind of mean what I’m saying, too, if you’ll pardon me for saying it. But it seems to me we’re just rank beginners at love. We say we love each other and we do, I don’t doubt it. We love each other and we love hard, all of us.'"
-"Beginners" by Raymond Carver

Between Craig Finn, the magic of the Hold Steady and the free bottle of champagne from First Ave., there really was Too Much Love last night for my birthday.