This is officially the third best summer in a row ( Read more... )

best compliment ever.

"did you just do yoga?"

"yeah"

"you look hot."

Had my last exam yesterday and went out to celebrate with lovely friends. Billy made asian stir-fry with obscene commentary and we drank the Blue Moon Brew and laughed and made lists of things to do this summer. Ride my bike a lot. Learn to cook tofu. Become good at poker. (Re)Discover my own music collection. Make art! Spend more days in the park ( Read more... )

some thoughts ( Read more... )

After 3.5 months of feeling absolutely un-hirable, I finally have a job! I'm now a barista and a wafflerista at a coffee house in Center City. I get to work with cute boys, eat delicious food for free and drink as much coffee as I want. And I will have money to continue living in this wonderful crazy city ( Read more... )

A-LA-BA-MA.

The state whose idea of winter is rain and yellow grass. Today, I wore ugly clothes and went for a bike ride around the neighborhood. I want people to look at me and ask, Who's that strange girl? Where is she from? . "New Jersey," I'll say smirking and speeding away on my pink Raptor. But no one is ever out. And if they are, all they ( Read more... )

Conceptions and endings always inspire documentation. I have about a week left in this house, which seems crazy and impossible and strange. When I'm not studying for exams, I'm throwing out garbage bags of accumulated junk. A neatly compiled folder of handouts and homework from a 10th grade biology class! Awkward sketches from when I was thirteen. ( Read more... )

i went to court today because i parked in a handicapped spot 2 months ago, and in new jersey that means $250 fine and mandatory court appearance. the first guy the judge called urinated in public. the second was a homeless man who had an opened bottle of alcohol on the street. the third was a mexican guy (probably illegal, could barely speak ( Read more... )

anomie:
1. Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
2. Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals: “We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage” (Charles Krauthammer).

Weltschmerz: Sadness over the evils ( Read more... )

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