Hey everyone. Here's the final promotional push. The SEEDS deadline is tomorrow--January 31st!! While you're on your computer now, please take just a couple minutes to print out a few pieces of writing or any visual art you may have on your computer. Collect your slides, finish your sheet music, gather any and everything and throw it into your ( Read more... )

I feel revived. I feel like a born-again poet just dunked in the baptismal water of a new rhythm, a new metaphor, a new meaning. I'm sure this all sounds exaggerated or trite or stupid, but I really didn't know that an already firey and long-lived passion could be so deepened or so sharpened so quickly. It's not the simple, bouncing, and ( Read more... )

I've never been one for New Years' Resolutions. In fact, I don't think I've ever honestly made one in my entire life. I'm not sure why. I think I've always felt that conscious change is something inspired by more than arbitrary measurements of time, a more innate need than buying a new calendar. But all life is metaphor and symbol, and tonight ( Read more... )

I wrote this partly while I was in Barnes and Noble alone last week waiting to pick up Madeline and partly now at home on my computer. It's definitely a breath of fresh air after writing dry and pretty awful English class assignments for so long. Any comments/advice/critiques would be much welcome and appreciated ( Read more... )

Lately it seems my entire life is being consumed by obligation. Not just with school, but with everything and anything. Even things I really want to do that are supposed to be easy, fun, and enjoyable seem to have to be penciled in between the lines of a crushing and rigid schedule. And then when it comes time for those, in the context of ( Read more... )

I just wanted to thank all of you who showed up at [shift] tonight, and especially those who shared their writing, art, music, and thoughts. It turned out far better than I even could have wished for. I hope all of you who were there had as great a time as I did, and that you'll all come back again, with even more work to showcase and more ( Read more... )

Well, first things first--Eric (admissions councelor) called and told me I've been accepted to New College!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D He said the official letter should arrive around Monday. I am unbelievably ecstatic and excited and overjoyed, so yes, if I did those LiveJournal memory things, this would be one ( Read more... )

FRANK RICH, The New York Times ( Read more... )

Rustic, iron hands reached out, growing at the ends into goblets of amber champagne, intoxicating the room with bubbling light. The chandelier gave shape to the cords sprawling and crawling upon the deep reds of the zigzagging bricks, mortar melting into dirt where the earth met the stage. The ivory teeth of a piano clamped shut, sinking into wet ( Read more... )

So our house fared extremely well under Frances' long-winded reign, with only minor damages. Michelle slept over last night and it was really really nice. Looking back I think we basically spent almost 24 hours in and a few feet from my room, which sounds boring but really wasn't. I really really needed that after the past week. But after ( Read more... )