I've come the decision that it's time to put this tired, old LJ into retirement, for real. This blog has marked the passage of time from leaving behind middle school, through my turbulent high school years, and finally to the start of college ( Read more... )

So this week we are going over poetry in CW class. We learned about the wonderful world of sestinas today. For those of you who don't know, a Sestina is a highly structured poem made up of six six-lines stanzas and then followed by a tercet at its end. The same set of six words ends the lines of each of the stanzas, but in a different, specific ( Read more... )

This is one of my favorite short stories. Read it in my creative writing class and wanted to share with anyone who cared.

( The School by Donald Barthelme )

Nicole spent the weekend in NY with me, and the two of us were talking about children and our parents and what we would do differently if we had children. And while Nicole and I agreed we would be more open about sex and drugs with our children, I started to think about the way my parents raised me. And while I resented the fact that I had to ( Read more... )

My cousin left and now I'm all alone again. Though for the first time in awhile, I'm actually thankful for the quiet and the lack of social interaction. There's a five dollar double feature of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas AND A Clockwork Orange. Tragically, nobody is around who wants to go. Tres, tres mal ( Read more... )

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I haven't eaten a single thing for over 36 hours now ( Read more... )

"They're jealous of the writing, and they should be. Because right now you want it more. And fuck them for trying to take you away from it. They'll never have all of you, and they better get used to it. Other people don't get it. They don't see, they don't feel the same way. It sounds snotty, but that's how it is. Like musicians, they talk ( Read more... )

"Being an important person in my life means getting lots of chances."

I feel like I've already gotten too many chances...but I swear, someday I'm gonna get it right.

( Remix )