It's amazing how a simple “get in here" can take you from our conversation ( Read more... )

Or we could, you know, just never talk again ( Read more... )

I didn't say anything when he told me that high school was a "bowl of cherries" ripe for the taking ( Read more... )

I think I'm building up an immunity to Lycopersicon esculentum poison.

It barely stings my cuts anymore, and it used to irritate the surface of my skin.

No more.

Just goes to show what working with something, several times a week for half a semester, can do to the body's tolerances.
Well perhaps “working with” was not an accurate description. “A ( Read more... )

You would not believe how difficult it is to keep the plants in check at the greenhouse. I have all these plants that want to top themselves and go 100% reproductive. So they send off two clusters of flowers and then can't grow anymore because they broke the pattern of; leaf, cluster, head. So now I'm stuck with the job of clipping their flowers so ( Read more... )

Song: everybody loves me, babyMy roommate's boyfriend came over for the weekend. Well I suppose I shouldn't write that as in "he came and left" seeing as he's still here, in her room, together, with the door closed, as it is most of the time, with me here by myself, shafted, resorting to irritating the cat, alone, by myself, and did I mention " ( Read more... )

And I had looked on beauties before
all golden and white.
And yet she was beauty's own bearer
a thorn among belles
a gnash in the land
Dark, coarse hair,
blemished skin.
No buttermilk voice,
curdled cream skin.
For all beauties have cream complexions
she is no exception.

Those prominent eyebrows,
deep,
heavy set,
power.
I had to look
to go on ( Read more... )

This was in the school newspaper, and I thought the sheer reality of it made it hilarious.


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I'm not sure how circulated this article is, but oh well. It's worth the read ( Read more... )

So I am remembering my dream from this morning, now four-tine hours later.

Different parts of it were flooding, or underwater, with minimal land to walk on. So there was this urgent undertone of feeling limited or trapped, mixed with suffocation.

And my boyfriend was playing games on the computer.