i really like my campers
the girl at the store gave me a free pair of laces
they are comfortable and have a sophisticated shape
they make me look like an ID student
i paid a hundred dollars for canvas shoes

"Remember that your brain is a creative organ with limitless creative possibilities - but it makes a really crummy whiteboard."

--Merlin Mann, "lifehacking guru," "hotdogsladies" on twitter (hilarious), creator of 5ives (also hilarious)

It's time to re-instate the "write that shit down in orange notebook" policy.

In SF, I purchased a half-size spiral ( Read more... )

5 things i am really attached to which i do not wear on my body (usually ( Read more... )

i used to be younger. i used to hate school outright. i used to date a blond. i used to let myself get tossed around by my feelings. i used to hate to sleep. i never feared my pretentiousness.  i used to spend all my money at the art supply store. i used to daydream about running away in a yellow van. i used to race home panicked, trying to make ( Read more... )

"To the ambitious, for whom neither the bounty of life nor the beauty of the world suffice to content, it somes as penance that life for them is squandered; that they possess neither the benefits nor beauty of the world, and if they are unable to perceive what is divine in nature, which is all around them, how will they be able to see their own ( Read more... )

so, i was driving up to my grandma's house with my brother. we drove by a lawn decorated for the holidays, with christmas light-up deer in the front yard. i thought it would be funny to make it look like those deer were mad bangin'. so this is the genius thing that i chose to say to express this:

"hey, we should hump those deer"

fuck.

a way in which cellphones breaking up can be funny:

me, to long distance boyfriend: i want to tackle you!
boyfriend: you want a taco??

conor oberst has a line that goes "you should not be embarassed by your trouble with living"

which i guess should make me feel better,

but i think that people who feel the need to take advice from a bright eyes song might have something to be embarassed about.

people who aren't fourteen-year-old emo kids, anyway.

anymore, anyway.

except that instead of being full of impenetrable, endless darkness,

it is full of impenetrable, endless whiteness.

also, today i went into the bathroom, and the door wouldn't close. this is not a shitty tin stall door that just got hit too hard or something. this door is a real big, full size wheelchair-accessible door, made of actual metal, not gum ( Read more... )

scenario: you call up some friends to see if they can hang out. unfortunately, due to circumstances it just isn't going to work out this evening.

a normal, well-adjusted person's response: call another friend to satisfy the craving for human companionship

a geeky loser's response: decide that now is the time to begin re-reading the entire harry ( Read more... )