Sometimes it is wished that birth had never been achieved by me!

-Battlestar Grammatica

last night i went to a show at the cradle. i paid fifteen dollars just to see the opener (i stuck around and the other acts were pretty damn good too, including big sean, who i dont think was listed on the cradle website? i probably would have paid fifteen dollars to see him, just because hes about to blow up. plus mike wonder was there, even ( Read more... )

i (paid someone to) cut off my hair yesterday. i was anxious at first, but as soon as it was off my head, i felt better. now it is short and fun, with bangs pushed to one side and little tendrils that curl under my jaw in the front ( Read more... )

Haven't posted one of these in awhile. Here is one I have been playing with enough to like.

Homonyms

Say organs and it's unclear
whether you mean the instruments
that make the fugue of the body
or the ones looming in cathedrals.

Say plain and the adjective
describes the landscape,
the topography unremarkable,
the land guileless and broad.

Say left and I ( Read more... )

by blind taste test, pabst blue ribbon was unanimously chosen by all judges as the best of the crappy beers.

apparently it was just the start of school i needed to get the poetry flowing.

two poems in two days.

and before long, my prolific writing is sure to become good, right? Right?!

i am in love with lady gaga. she is the real shit. she is the first legitimately big thing after madonna ( Read more... )

last night was my first night in the new house in carrboro! it is lovely. i am still unpacking. we have so much space, and the ceilings in my new room are nice and high--it feels almost like a cube ( Read more... )

Orlando was not too much of a vacation. More than anything, I feel exhausted. Our three days at the beach were what I wanted more of. Disney World is a fun place (and a lovely place, for that matter), in small doses. It would be much more fun if it were not surrounded by the terrifying neon-lit abyss of Kissimmee and Orlando ( Read more... )

things that are stupid

- lacrosse
- vomiting
- those unpopped kernels in the bottom of the popcorn bag
- white bread