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I feel like such a loser
Such an important election year and my mother (who just got her citizenship) was adamant about not voting because she sucks like that. I think she wanted Hillary to run and since she didn't get the Democratic nomination she's not voting for anyone. WHAT!? I haven't been to my parents house in a WHILE and I came out here today specifically to bully ( Read more... ) -
Stop Crying
I wrote myself a note tonight ( Read more... ) -
WHOA
Getting my nose fixed hurt SOOOOOO much less than breaking it twice. -
Buena Estrella
I read yesterday that excessive coffee-drinking is a nervous habit of Geminis. Ooops. I then had two Coronas before bed because I hadn't been able to sleep right the past two nights and wanted to conk out for reeaaaal. I woke up refreshed but at 8:55am. Oops. Conclusion: I need less substance-related ways of regulating my mood and sleep patterns. ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I wanna go to sleep and wake up in the dead of winter. -
Another option
I couldn't decide if I prefered a hot or cold climate. Then I realized the questions change depending what you choose! It really is like a choose-your-own-adventure. The Garcia Marquez was for hot. This is what I get when I choose cold:
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I took the plunge
I came out to my parents on Sunday morning. Everything was set up the way I planned it because it made me feel better to control whatever variables I could in such an unpredictable situation. FYI my parents are VERY old-school, very conservative Ecuadorians who still goad me about the "pain you caused us" when I moved out TWO YEARS AGO, my father ( Read more... ) -
Valentines Day
SO, my cousin got engaged on Wednesday. The one who's two years older, like a sister, that best-friend cousin we-grew-up-together-sort-of-thing. It was cute, very valentiney. Lots of people on the verge of tears, LOTS of food, speeches in somewhat halted Nuyorican Spanish, speeches in inordinatley formal (even for the old-school folks)Spanish, ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes I feel this way about NYC
The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you
that I
don’t belong in English
though I belong nowhere else
if not here, in English.
-Gustavo Perez-Firmat
