I spent the day helping my mom clean out the garage. In the process of sorting through all of the crap my family has accumulated over the years, I came across the occasional old sketch/notebook. It seems that I have* a penchant for collecting useless little journals. I always began these journal with grandiose sentences; most of the sentences ( Read more... )

I rode my bike home in a hurry to listen to the voicemail. It would reveal whether or not I would get a spring break next year and a killer body with all of the yoga/bellydancing/countrywesterndancing ( Read more... )

 
The Elementary School Bully is Twenty-Two

Murmurs between bridesmaids

coated in hairspray and perfume

who invited him?

Hey Macarena, right hand on hip.

he hovers at the edge of the dance floor,

left hand weighted with a Corona

the bridesmaid consciously sways her hips, claps, and turns away

a wedding is a time for joy

The dance is ( Read more... )

Why doesn’t the creative writing major stress out ( Read more... )

I had this interview down at the State House of Representatives this morning. It was in the basement. In a conference room full of people sitting around a very long, unround table, asking me questions ( Read more... )

I think you reach a new level

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I woke up this morning feeling really sad despite having a blast at Daleena’s wedding. I guess that for some time it was this big looming event and then it passed with the ease and lubrication of many free drinks, and despite the awkward after-party that contained a pseudo confrontation with an elementary school bully, it ended. So this is kind of ( Read more... )

hmmmph.

*grumbles to self about the expenses of toilet paper*

How many times have I done this not because going to the bathroom depended on it, but because I was stocking up for a night out on the town?

(note: this is an example of how I have changed since high school... as I enter my third year as a twenty something)

sometimes, when I have enough time to stop and think, it is really lonely on top of the mountain.