so i saw cirque du soleil last night, and wanted to write a long diatribe about why it was the worst cirque du soleil i've seen, but i'm pretty exhausted at the moment. suffice it to say that if i have time to complain about cirque du soleil, my life is pretty fucking sweet right now ( Read more... )

Today I worked at Trenton Tots, a volunteer program through Princeton to help out at a daycare center in Trenton that mostly hosts little kids from lower-income families. It was my first day, and I chose to spend it in the toddler room ( Read more... )

shit, ok, so i tried changing all these posts to "friends only," but apparently there's no way to do that to all the entries at once. i'm doing it slowly, so this will have to be my disclaimer:

if you're reading this and you're not "supposed" to be, just don't. please?

i was showering in one of the two stalls, and someone else comes in and uses the other one. about five minutes later, a male opens the door and says "skylar?" and the girl says "yeah?" and the guys asks "are you alone?" and there's this awkward pause, and the chick says really uncomfortably "uhhh, no" and the guy closes the door ( Read more... )

big news: Steve had his baby. maybe i should say, Millie had the baby. Steve gave the manly moral support.

hooray! happy day after your birthday, Georgina Elizabeth!

So, I really should be cleaning up my room, because it's sort of a shitshow. However, because David wants me to post, and not just post about what I might theoretically post. So, without further ado ( Read more... )

"Sometimes I got tired of being called lucky by everybody. There were times when, privately ractising my writings about life, I knew the bitter side of my fortune. When I failed again and again to reproduce life in some satisfactory and perfect form, I was the more imprisoned, for all my carefree living, within my craving for this satisfaction. ( Read more... )

last night I got home from work and took off my clothes and wrapped myself in a sheet and told myself that no matter what, I wasn't getting out of that sheet. And then I wanted goldfish. And I told Andy my dilemma and he said that he would go and buy me some, and I told him "parmesean goldfish." I'm such a douche ( Read more... )

i'm such an idiot.

When it looks as if you had made up your mind finally to stay at home for the evening, when you have put on your house jacket and sat down after supper with a light on the table to the piece of work or the game that usually precedes your going to bed, when the weather outside is unpleasant so that staying indoors seems natural, and when you have ( Read more... )