1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others 3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

cross 5, 11, and 12 off the buffalo list.

my list is a little longer than the movie, but i also have more time... so semi-organized here's the temp draft ( Read more... )

1. see an opera in toronto ( Read more... )

so some days i just wanna drop out right away and get a job and just have an easy, mindless, noncompetitive life, learning things on my own.  i kinda feel like i'm learning a lot on my own anyway.  some days i wanna go on and get my phd and teach on my area of expertise, american pop culture, and live in nyc and be insanely cultured.  but these ( Read more... )

i've been having some crazy dreams lately.  i don't really wanna recount the graduation one, but kristin and jay-z were there and my dad and dogs died.  most of it was unfeeling except that last part, but every part outside was so sunny and bright.  this dream last night tho weird.  so alex is asking me for a ride and being a real asshole about it ( Read more... )

so today was a sick day.  i'm tired of being sick, but i'm not sure having this day to just sleep and "get better" actually worked.  i have no idea how to make myself well.  sleeping and medicine and tea are not working.   but anyway the reason i'm writing is bc i'm jonesing so bad to go to paris lately i have no idea why.  i've always kinda ( Read more... )

so tonight was fucking awesome the way all nights should have been here all along or at least weekend nights.  it was so much fun in such a simple way and i think i liked it because for once it felt like what should have followed undergrad.  rodney and i went to that free happy hour thing and people we knew just kept showing up.  but it wasn't like ( Read more... )

 
Limonov6: And there was something about Buffalo I forgot to tell you last time I talked to you, I might as well tell you now while I remember. While I was unpacking my stuff there I found a Get Up Kids CD someone once burned for me. I thought it sucked when I first listened to it, but for some reason I really liked it when I listened to it again. ( Read more... )

i feel like there's not enough time (or money) to do anything.  its like i'm so lazy or scared or something that i just wanna hide out in my room and disappear, maybe sleep all the time.  idk.  some things i need to do ( Read more... )