Everyone who is reading this and even those who aren't should go and obtain Sufjan Stevens' Illinois because it's indescribably beautiful. Now that I've got that out of the way, here's the rest of it ( Read more... )

( A Bang at the Door )

( The Luck of the Draw )

So much time these days is spent planning for things that may never happen. Small joys are taken from the idea that someday we'll stop preparing and start doing, but there's an inkling of doubt inside me that says that there will be no simple switch from what is to be to what simply is. Dreams do well in serving to ease unsure and troubled minds, ( Read more... )

He awoke bloodied and bruised, floating in a sea of dead leaves and broken twigs. Frightened at first, too frightened to move, he slowly opened one eyelid and let bright yellow light blind him into vision. Trees obstructed the horizon, slicing the rising sun into a thousand slivers of golden clouds as it warmed the morning mist ( Read more... )

There is no better time of year than the season of autumn. The sky is filtered a crisp grey and blue by the approaching icy air, picturesquely contrasting with the swarms of yellows and oranges that float from moss green branches as the summer sun makes its last stand against the coming winter, bleeding red into the clouds beneath it all the while ( Read more... )

There are days on which a person can become the most venomous, annoyed, and socially retractable creature to ever walk the earth, mindful of every little irritating thing that each person around them does and full of a hateful desire to expunge the smiling faces of every cheerful soul having a better time than they are. Those days were called ( Read more... )

There are times during which daily life becomes so goddamn monotonous and undesireable that there is an extremely fine line that keeps me from just walking out of it and living out all of the fantasies that never come out of my brain. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to just stop filling out bullshit worksheets and jump on a plane to ( Read more... )

There was a bomb threat yesterday... whatever ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this (not like its blatantly obvious or anything), but about 95% of the scholarships out there are just marketing tools for big businesses to write off in their taxes and gain publicity from. Case in point: KFC is offering students money to write an essay about Colonel Sanders ( Read more... )