ok, i know i haven't updated in over three months, go ahead and crucify me. since i last updated, in a nutshell, i did some slave labor, was kidnapped by a congregation of chinese christians, and sold my soul to social justice. ok, maybe things weren't so drastic, but in a way that's really what happened. i really don't want to recap the entire ( Read more... )

i hate when rich people say money isn't important. yeah, it's really easy to say that when you have a lot of it. you may not be able to buy happiness, but you sure can buy security. it's easy to be idealistic when you have nothing valuable to lose ( Read more... )

i'm a girl. i'm good at math and science. apparently that's a novelty. so now if i go into a field in math or science i'm special even though there are so many people more talented and motivated in those fields than i am, but if i like writing i'm just another emotional, artsy-fartsy wanna be. thanks a lot.

so i had to ride my bike - well, my little brother's bike - three miles today to get to the Hillcrest Center where i teach poetry classes cuz i couldn't beg well enough to get a ride... i must be losing my touch... i hate riding bikes - there is no way my ass can ever get comfortable on that dingy little seat. i swear i don't know how guys do it ( Read more... )

two major developments ( Read more... )

i just bought purple q-tips! talk about fantastic; personal hygiene has never been so stylin'

apparently i won a thousand bucks for an essay i wrote... yay!

i need to go somewhere... where they don't speak english and they don't even want to... where it's never cold... where they grow bananas... where my sister doesn't have anything to complain about... where my mom doesn't have to work... where books are sacred and money's an afterthought... where there's no such thing as bureaucracy... where ( Read more... )

my new favorite things are easter eggs ( Read more... )

o,k i'm dyslexic... it's federico garcia lorca, not ferdinand like the bull or frederico like frederico... but federico... and no, now that i got his name right i'm not the only one with him listed as one of my interests... oh well... but it still stands that he's one of my favorite all time poets, and that not enough people have heard of him or ( Read more... )

anyone that went to the true colors conference a few weeks ago will find this especially entertaining ( Read more... )