I had a dream that I worked for Dave Eggers.

I think this is because I have been reading The Best American Nonrequired Reading series and every single time, I am paralyzed by how unfair it is that a group of high schoolers in San Francisco got to edit the book. Why didn't I know about this when I was in high school?! Not that I would've had any way ( Read more... )

I don't know why I'm back on here -- I'm certain that Annie thought I gave this up for good ( hello? I'm back, if only briefly). But I needed someplace to journal and goddamn, all my other blogs are locked/privated/themed. Or, you know, deleted. So goes life. I'm at my cousin's house in Temeculah, wherever that may be, and I was put into one of the ( Read more... )

I've been stuck at home and it's dreadfully boring. So, of course, I jump at the chance to hang out with my auntie, who takes me shopping and keeps me entertained. Also, as an added plus, my cousin has a Nintendo DS and I can generally kill about three hours playing Animal Crossing, Brain Age and assorted other cutesy games. Hooray for hand-held ( Read more... )

so i think the summer is turning me nocturnal. i feel like i'm constantly marinated in my own sweat, which is really not a pleasant feeling to wake up to. and so, i've taken to doing all of my "important" tasks at night -- my reading, my packing (aaahhh, shit! so much to pack!), and when i can manage it, my writing.

to tell you the truth, i'm on a ( Read more... )

I want to write a memoir, a novel and a collection of short stories by this December.

I want my publishing deal before I turn 21.

I want to be secure in the fact that I can write for a living (and make it!) by the time I graduate from college.

I want an agent. Real bad.

I want to start winning the essay contests I never enter.

I want to not have to ( Read more... )

My life is really not all that fascinating, so I'm not even sure why I'm updating. Let's see -- in the past few days, what things of interest have happened to me?

1. I got a new bosslady at work. She's Australian and used to write for Australian Vogue! Pretty neat. 
2. I learned how to transfer calls out. You hit "transfer" and dial the extension, ( Read more... )

So this is just turning into a rambling lil journal. Which is honestly, better for me because I can't seem to keep my pen and paper journals for too often. I have about a million lying around my room somewhere. If you can believe it, I have a wooden one with Footprints on the cover. Yes, as in the religious poem. Not my choice -- I swear. It was a ( Read more... )

Ah fudge.

It's like... 5 am and i couldn't really sleep. i absolutely abhor it when my mom yells at me for staying up late. want to be back at davis.

goddamn.

i have work tomorrow at like... 10. which isn't so bad, i guess, but it does mean that i get up around 8 or so. or more accurately, 8:30. i dont particularly care but i'm just in a bad mood ( Read more... )

hello world. or i guess, hello annie and krystine (because i am not a big live journal-er).

anyway, i've got about a million and a half things to do right now -- which i am decidedly not doing. going to the east coast next week! so exciting! but i also have:

-to finish up all my work at my internship tomorrow (which shouldn't be bad, as long as the ( Read more... )

It was the same old story, and by old story, I mean something clichéd but outdated, like having thanksgiving at grandma’s or owning a tire swing. Our story was something out of a faded paperback published in the early 1900s and delegated to the public library’s bargain book bin. We were two kids who met at church, grew up and maybe fell in love ( Read more... )