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On the subject of beauty
I'm so sick and tired of the accepted standards of beauty. My friend Lindsay told me that it's somewhat unfair for me to say so, since I fit a lot these accepted standards, but I disagree. I think it gives me more of a right to object to the entire idea of a stereotypically beautiful woman. Every day when men and women compliment or hit on me, ( Read more... ) -
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Dammit Bon Iver played the Pilot Light on Sunday but I'm in DC. Forever. (get it? Bon Iver, like bon hiver, like good winter) -
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I miss the following people very, very, very much:
my mama
Amy Finnegan
Andrew
TINA
Dane
Kate
Alex
Erin
Elspeth
Seve
Courtlina
Samuel Wood
Chaddish
SarSar
Tarani
Cindy
Reece
Zaina
and Teg
What do you do when you miss someone? -
Jump Jivin'
"We don't have moments like this anymore. It's not just us; no one does. People die or move or change. 'People change?' 'Yeah, Dad, people change.'
"'Can they change back?' 'I think it's harder.'"
"Everything's too different, too...I don't know...wrong. It just doesn't feel right anymore. That song you haven't listened to for so long, until ( Read more... ) -
This might be gross.
...So instead I got a nosebleed. The fourth since I came back to D.C. Two before I left for home. Always in the morning after just waking. I haven't had a nosebleed since I was about six years old. Joy used to get them a lot ( Read more... ) -
For the next ten minutes...
And on Sunday mornings we would lie there next to each other in her antique bed, bathing in each other's company. She would always make breakfast and bring it to me in bed. Fried eggs, turkey bacon, and orange juice. Sitting Indian-style facing me, she would talk freely and laugh openly while she would pick apart her eggs with her hands. Then, ( Read more... ) -
Thuuursdaaaaaay
Baby I'm afraid of a lot of things, but I ain't scared of lovin' you.
Baby I know you're afraid of a lot of things, but don't be scared of love,
cause people will say all kinds of things. That don't mean a damn to me
cause all I see is what's in front of me.
That's you.
Well, I've been dragged all over the place; I've taken hits time just don't erase
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It's alright as long as it's something tangible, right?
Books and candy and Strawberry Fields forever.
Maybe it's those twin pools of muddy dark chocolate. Or the curve of your chest underneath your shirt. Or the slow fading of short black hairs to clean, brown skin, the blending of black and brown almost entrancing. But no, it's you standing a foot away while we discuss impatience and slurred speech ( Read more... ) -
Steve Martin
Shopgirl
"His interest in Mirabelle comes from the part of him that still believes he can have her without obligation. He believes he can exist with her from eight to eleven and enter a private and personal world that they will create that will cease to exist in the off hours or off days. He believes that this world will be independent of other ( Read more... ) -
Another long one
But guess what! I broke it into sections this time. Sooo,
Part One:
This might be really interesting, or really boring. But to me it is fascinating because I am extremely self-involved sometimes. I've been wondering about this for a while now. What is it about me that attracts men? I'm not talking about long-term, relationship-type attraction ( Read more... )