Tonight I saw Garden State. It was a really incredible film, moving in ways so buried and fundamental that sometimes I had no conscious idea of why I was starting to cry ( Read more... )

Well, I am pretty disillusioned, disappointed, hurt, and outraged. I just found that that even though I preregistered to vote three months ago and will be 18 almost a month before the election I still will not be able to vote. I called the Supervisor of Elections' office today to find out why I haven't yet received any sort of confirmation in the ( Read more... )

I wrote this poem tonight. It is still without a title. If anyone has any free time and would like to, any comments/critiques would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, friendly writing workshop friends you are becoming, lol ( Read more... )

Hey there everyone. I just wanted to let you know that Seeds is expanding into the technological frontier this year with a LiveJournal and LiveJournal community ( Read more... )

So here comes a very selfish rant no one will want to hear about but me, but I'm posting it here because it's my journal, so there. I'm currently speaking with Lily about this at the moment, but I wanted to sort out my feelings here as well. As strange as it is, sometimes I am almost jealous of other people's choices. I've thought about it a lot ( Read more... )

Today in Deluz's class, opening lecture, he asked us what we had gotten out of summer this year, something we had learned that we could take with us. The more I thought about it, the more I realized this summer that being 17 years old is not the same thing as being 13 years old, and that life, priorities, and myself in general have changed, grown ( Read more... )

Do you all remember at the end of 10th grade, when Jack, Evan, Vigil, Maria Pinto, and all those other seniors were leaving? And though we didn't know them personally (at least I didn't), their leaving still felt like losing something really essential and considerable, because they had just been such a definition of what Dreyfoos was and had meant ( Read more... )

Vermont's been really nice this year. A much needed actual vacation (as opposed to doing a year's worth of gym coursework in six weeks posing as "summer"), and a great chance to reconnect with my family and take a breath of fresh air outside of often stifling Florida. I really miss all of you and can't wait to see you as soon as I get back, and ( Read more... )

Adbusters, this kind of crazy, extreme anti-capitalist (yet not exactly socialist) magazine, sent out this e-mail about the theme of their next issue. The basic idea is that you wake up tomorrow and a huge economic crash happens and spreads all over the world and that violence breaks out, food, gas, and other essentials become scarse, the ( Read more... )

Last night, as we kicked up and soaked in the cool sands of that unrelentless teenage lust for unspoken confession and wordless connection, and hummed the hazy songs that mirrored the moment, and danced eternally to old revelations, I couldn’t help but discern a time when all of this will become hardly more than faded pins rising up out of the map ( Read more... )