when i was a young girl, i "had my heart broken" one summer by a camp counselor. granted, it was more like a teenie-bopper obsession--the way a girl loved a member of NSYNC, i loved this boy. he was, in a word, amazing. (it should be noted that i was like 14 and he was like 18, which makes this more amusing as this story progresses ( Read more... )

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"En pensant aux révolutions musicales, on y réfère généralement en terme de sonorité et de provocation: les dissonances de l'Eroica de Beethoven, la rage de Stravinsky dans le Sacre du printemps, la décadence consommée de Schoenberg dans Pierrot lunaire. Encore est-il que la plus radicale de toutes les voix musicales fut celle langoureuse et sous- ( Read more... )

i am going to write my life in a series of haikus:

AP tests are done
seasonal allergies suck.
kleenex are saviors.

so many people
are sad one sided lovers
they are not loved back.

President George Bush
is a serious fuckhead!
(i don't swear alot.)

it is friday night
should i go play fugitive?
perhaps, i think not.

AP statistics, though it started late, was not too bad.

peach cobbler is amazing.

i am so tired i cannot sleep. go figure.

prom.
confetti cake.
Linfield.
new friends.
laurie's house.
red hoodie.

love.

all i can think of is the oasis song "wonderwall" and the lyrics:

"there are many things that i would like to say to you, but i don't know how."

i am speechless--literally speechless.

what were you thinking!?

this speech would be alot easier to write if i didn't expect so much of myself.

let's face it.

we're seniors. we are going to graduate.

whether of not we eat expensive "senior-parent" dinners, order grad-party invitations, or get sappy about people we aren't going to see next year.

it all seems so over-nostalgic, and so overblown.

in fifth grade, my friend Sarah told me that "there's a lid for every pot," meaning that each person has another person that fits with them.

i'm expanding her metaphor to "there's a COLLEGE lid for every pot."

i am so happy that i've already found my lid.