I don't know whether I'd been paying too much attention to how Elliot in the Morning's voice is the auditory equivalent of sandpaper, or if I was just too engrossed in the contemplation of finding a time slot to pick up a copy of Cosmopolitan, but I somehow failed to notice the reindeer perched menacingly only a few inches from my face in the ( Read more... )

Today was full of events and progressions ( Read more... )

There was an organ inside of me, performing some vital function in the pitch black solid of my body, of which I was completely unaware. It beat on while I considered its weight in me; it made my blood pure even as I concluded that it was completely unnecessary. What I thought might have been a benign tumor swelling in my chest turned out to be ( Read more... )

So I wake up at like, two in the afternoon. And this swollen-throat, coughing-up-a-lung, why-am-I-so-damn-tired-all-the-damn-time?! thing hasn't gone away for like, two weeks. So I go to the doctor, and they stick a gargantuan Q-Tip in the back of my throat, leave me in a room with a Newsweek for twenty minutes then come back and tell me I don't ( Read more... )

So, my mom decided we were gonna "start saving money on food." Problem - we .. didn't really have much food in the first place. Now every time I enter the kitchen looking for something to eat, there's nothing there. And this has been going on for about two weeks. Anyway, now I weigh a lot less than before which is not cool, because my True ( Read more... )

I would like to insert three days in which I have no obligations into the universe right now, so I can actually stop being sick. I need to get better! Sooo tired of waking up every morning feeling like crap. Tomorrow, math test and whatnot, then a track meet and then maybe, just maybe I can sleep from Friday night far into Saturday? Who knowsss ( Read more... )

i'm trying to figure out who you are
and every path i trip over i find
i love you every which - way

i outpace the sun when it comes to
twirling light touches
on you, warming you the same way
a day at the beach does -- at first
warm all over then a burn. except
inside, and lovely

at midnight something clatters-crashes-scatters in the hall

I'm sick of seeing you cry ( Read more... )

ap english exam tomorrow at eight. this is THE moment. i want a five, so I can prove I kick ass. i'm aiming high. right on ( Read more... )

life is pretty sweet. i'm not gonna lie. there's a lot of talk of going away now that [almost] everyone has picked their colleges out, so it's all got me in that ... what will i miss about this place? mood. so here goes ( Read more... )