I got an email tonight from Brooke saying that she thinks we should have joint ownership of the film, i.e. "A Film By Brooke Barnett and Sarah Cox" This is great news! Granted we still have a lot of work to do in the coming months, but I am so happy that she wants to upgrade me from writer/editor. PBS here we come ( Read more... )

"What was it you said
About the sun always shining on me?
What was it you said?

I was supposed to, you were supposed to be..."

...i guess i really do need to get away.

So I'm home. And yet I'm still working on the film. Surprise, surprise. Brooke is a mild workaholic, but you learn to love her despite it. Our relationship pretty much consisted of her being all academic-liberal and me reminding her of how distorted her sense of normalcy is. "This book doesn't look scary." "Yes it does Brooke." or "What if you ( Read more... )

i just watched the new Pride and Prejudice for the second night in row. i am so lonely. and my head still hurts.

i carved my first chicken tonight. pre-roasted, thank god. it was still fairly terrifying. oh the joys of independence. but yes. i have returned to elon. it's pretty much a ghost town, minus dear jon. but my work is already much more satisfying than anything i could have done at home. my days are long but quiet- working, going to the gym, making ( Read more... )

so i was driving home tonight and i realized that i want to stay young forever, but not for some people's reasons...i want to stay young so that my life can be about new and challenging ideas, about figuring out what i believe, getting excited about ideas, issues, projects. hoping for the world and mapping out plans, big plans. sometimes you come ( Read more... )

oh god get me back to Elon now. i can't stand it at home.

I feel more and more every day that I want my life to be simple and quiet. and fresh. i want to go on adventures. windows down, no money, nowhere to go but the country kinds of adventures. i want to tell people's stories. i want to throw away everything i have. i want a boy, a man, with books and a banjo, who wants nothing more than to search me ( Read more... )

How am I feeling today ( Read more... )

So. I am done with not feeling beautiful. It's over. I'm breaking up with that. It's not becoming. It's selfish.