A few thoughts ( Read more... )

1. you can't change other people
2. you can't force others to recognize their own potential
3. you can't keep them from making bad decisions
4. you can't make them understand that the decision has been theirs all along

being happy is not impossible but it takes DOING.

AMERICAN. Doll. POSSE. !!!!!!!

I am now a size 2/3. I don't know when it happened ( Read more... )

to let it all out in a big vomit. my dream ( Read more... )

my new favorite book:


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So, I've met someone. And I like him. A lot. He's kind and intelligent and cute and he cooks for me. If I go without seeing him for days, I start missing his touch and his smell and his kisses. It's all very bizarre and new.

Shuffling back and forth between Berkeley and Irvine has taught me some interesting things about myself. for instance, I have learned a few things about what it takes for me to be happy ( Read more... )

It's a curious fact that only a couple of years ago, I would have told you Emily Dickinson and Ernest Hemingway were both incredibly overrated and boring. Now I find them both very pleasurable to read. I give you a couple of poems written by Dickinson, obnoxiously uncut ( Read more... )

My life thus far has consisted of a certain ongoing pattern ( Read more... )