"I don't like my glasses... I... I don't like when things are so clear."
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Well. Here's to step one. We took this together.

But where we go from here, well, it's out of my hands.

"A careful man tries to dodge the bullets, while a happy man takes a walk."
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Fuck. I need to actually grow a pair and do something, don't I?

Words fail ( Read more... )

Does anyone use Tumblr?

It's not usually the long, intensive post format LJ likes to use. It's more a content sharing +blog thing. So, say, all those things you post on facebook/twitter/LJ combined into one streamlined feed.

You can find it at tumblr.com. I think it looks pretty neat.

"Wow, this dude looks like he's celebrating a birthday, too!"
"Ha! Not for a long time!"
"Yeah? But, dude, you look like you're totally out of it and about to crash."
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Sigh.

So, what do we think of the idea of "Chris Mullins:  honors student?"

I am much too fickle to actually stick to a single topic of research for a full year. I move much ( Read more... )

"What are you doing?"
"Rolling in the grass."
"I see that. But what are you doing?"
"Rolling in the grass."

I rescind.

"Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped ( Read more... )

"How do we get trapped like this?"
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Fear, I told you.

Fear, I told you, is what keeps us trapped.

Fear of judgment. Fear of loss. Fear of failure. We refuse to move from where we are because of what could happen if we do--what happens if we chase our dreams and fail? What happens if we achieve them and lose what we loved in the first ( Read more... )

I need sleep.

Or, rather, I need to find some way to re-incorporate naps into my schedule. As it is, I only really get between 5-6 hours of sleep on the weeknights. Usually, this is my own stubbornness:  "I'm 21, there is no possible way I am going to allow myself to go to bed because it's only 11." Sometimes, I just flat out can't sleep (you should ( Read more... )