For those who haven't figured out, I have a new journal at:
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At the moment, these are the songs I love too much for words ( Read more... )

If not this, then ( Read more... )

Last night, I was complaining to Martin about how I'm always tired and feel wiped out. How I've been working full-time and taking four graduate classes in an attempt to graduate a year early and this is what he said:

"Leigh, you just need to get over it."I think that is the best advice I've received in a long time, only because it seems entirely ( Read more... )

You are my last illusion ( Read more... )

I had to write an epigram for my form and theory of poetry class today and I have been freaking out about it all day long. For those of you who don't know (I know I didn't) - an epigram is a two-lined poem, or a couplet, which contains some kind of humor or sarcasm or sharpness of wit. These couplets can be lined up to make a larger poem, but ( Read more... )

I relented and re-joined Hanson.net. So in effect, I have spent forty dollars on top of my original forty dollar membership fee just so I can have Zac's pretty t-shirt and make everyone jealous and dance around in said t-shirt and my underwear in the room in the sort of way you dance when no one is looking...and that, for me, is badly ( Read more... )

Last night, I went to sleep early. Nine o'clock. A child's bed-time. I have been exhausted lately. One too many drives to Los Angeles to see Hanson last week, one too many poems to critique, one too many things to do at work. I woke up at one o'clock when my bed began to shake. The thunder was above our small house and it jostled my bed, sent ( Read more... )

Suh-weet. I just got a check in the mail from the Santa Cruz Board of Education for $226.46 for some substitute work I did a couple of months ago. I changed my address, but it was so long ago, it kind of slipped my mind. Yay for unexpected money. I get paid in two days as well, so it should be nice to have a non-negative balance in my bank ( Read more... )

Also, exciting - I got some things in the post this week.

The new Hanson.net membership CD, which has four songs, two videos and some assorted stuff on it and also, the Mmmbop and I Will Come to You singles on vinyl.

Suh-weet.