In fifth grade I traded my Jagged Little Pill CD for shoes to wear to the end-of-the-year dance. Boys on one side of the cafeteria, girls on the other, and PTA moms along the back wall grinning and ladling kool-aid into plastic cups. There was That Guy who kissed That Girl behind the folded-up stage while the rest of us were stumbling through the ( Read more... )

i'm on the brink of a crisis, a mid-college crisis if you will, in which i suddenly decided i want to be a doctor against all better judgment. sometimes i am far too ambitious (or pretend to be). read: how do i honestly expect to go from my typical english-major read-this-poem-and-write-a-bullshit-response-paper-about-syllable-counts classes to a ( Read more... )

last night we drove to the end of the state (end of the country, even. maybe end of the world?) in the middle of the night, and drank champagne on the beach after driving a little too fast. it was too cold to sleep on the sand under stars, so i watched the constellations move across the bowl of sky and then i walked and walked and walked until i ( Read more... )

it is thundering a lot, and it is graduation day. there are black robes and heels and families and tears and champagne everywhere. i wonder if i will be sad when i graduate ( Read more... )

a man named million sold me coffee at the airport yesterday.
his momma musta loved him.

"donate new and used ipods here: help the invisible children of uganda ( Read more... )

at some point yesterday-in between downing cups of grey-goose-gatorade in my RA's room at 11:30 in the morning, drinking champagne and corona and being dropped on the floor in the office, taking shots out of chemistry beakers, stumbling around the quad in the rain running into people i haven't seen in months, watching my TA shotgun like mad, in ( Read more... )

so i'd thought about going to europe next semester, and now i am beginning to regret relinquishing that opportunity, because i want to get out of here ( Read more... )

so it still hasn't hit me that there is a week and a half of school left, that the semester is quickly crashing to a close, that college is essentially halfway over. it's a little bit alarming, a little bit exhilirating ( Read more... )

suicide. blackout. jj's abysmal eleven points. loss. dead body on the railroad tracks. strippers. gang rape, sodomy, strangulation. protests. burning busses. apocalypse.