Does anyone still use this thing?

Have most people abandoned it as I have?
Outgrown it, perhaps?

Do we have better things to do in our lives?

Are we all neglecting the importance of journaling or writing in any form?
If so, are we aware of this neglect?

Is looking back on the things one wrote high school as excruciatingly embarrassing for you as it is ( Read more... )

i kind of overwhelm myself by not updating for such long periods of time ( Read more... )

I can't remember the last time I felt so gratified
now that I'm home
visiting SPHS at lunch time, familiar faces, and nostalgia.

Is something seriously wrong with my USC social scene?
Last night at dinner I realized that I was back in my element... not just my home town, but my self. Why hasn't USC brought out the best in me? Why does it shut me up... ( Read more... )

WOW.
I guess I'd never really dealt with the utter nightmarishness of holiday travel. It always might have been there, but somehow I was never involved. Except this time....

Visiting dad in San Diego was a strange and slightly absurd plan. Austin dropped out at the last minute out of the sheer ridiculosity of everything; I stayed loyal and drove 2 ( Read more... )

Astronomy 100: The Universe
Anthro 200: The Origins of Humanity
Environment and Ethics (with the less-desirable Writing 140)
"Writing to be Read," a freshman seminar

The earliest class is 12 noon every day except Monday when it starts at 10.

Austin is taking astronomy at the same time, though not in the same lecture. But obviously we still get to be ( Read more... )

it's 95% likely that i'll go up to the Bay area this upcoming weekend ( Read more... )

Tender Timbers Tumble Slumbers Rumble Timbers Hickles Sweaters, Reaching Fish-night Might Surrender Heckling Spenders Riding Jugglers.

Trembling Temples Thunder Splinters Renters Went Through Waves of Wood, Hedwig's Wings Upon the Sphincters Race the Mudflaps Through the Hood.

Love Surrounds but Hides and Falters, Flashing Madly Down the Loo, Je ( Read more... )

In this moment, college is beautiful ( Read more... )

Dear memory foam,

Will you remember me?

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on an unrelated note, i've decided that "dust" is my new favorite word

and midterms are up my ass

Regarding the last entry, I had just spent the evening with Austin and he told me about how the crime around USC has been exploding off the charts and he's completely baffled as to why this year has been so much sketchier than all previous years. Walking back to my dorm, I was just having this massive "so... why exactly do I want to be here?" ( Read more... )