This journal is shockingly old, and it's time to get rid of it.
Clearing out the ghosts so to speak. I'll probably return with another name, and perhaps I'll make use of these things for once.

I don't think I want to keep this secret for long ( Read more... )

ouch. ouch. ouch.

we are growing so old.
we are so alone in this room of caring souls.
how to let them in?
i.don't.know.how.to.let.them.in.

I know why I liked Shortbus so much. It shows so clearly how we’re all just people, these forces of energy, looking and reaching for someone to feel us back. We’re these cardboard cut outs searching for someone to fill the hole. We ravel our lifelines together in complex knots tied tighter by the desire to have someone know us. No, even more- to ( Read more... )

Choose some cultural artifact -- song, film/film clip, short story, poem, TV commercial, etc. -- and analyze how it connects to some of the themes concerning globalization covered in this class. Be sure to draw directly from at least three weeks of lectures and assigned readings to support and develop your discussion of globalization. You can also ( Read more... )

I don't have many words these days, but here are some pictures of the past month and a half.

First Night: Hoe Down: CONVOCATION: ROBOTS:

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It always comes back to this, in the end. This loneliness. Will no one ever know me? Will I never know me? Pleased to meet you, I'll never say. And maybe I have to forget everything I know [forgetting, forgetting], in order to remember what is true. Find me, here.

After the phone conversation, or rather, more accurately, the monologue of why I'm the biggest monster to exist in this universe, I took off my ring and threw it at the floor. It bounced a few times but I don't know where because I promptly fell into bed. "The girl," as she called her on the phone retrieved it and put it somewhere safe I suppose. ( Read more... )

Maybe one must turn away from love in order to turn into their self. Perhaps to continue fully into this transformation, I must be okay with things that I never have allowed to happen before. Yes, I can be okay without the support of those who are close to me. Yes, I can stand firm in my belief even if those same people don't see my reasons. Yes, I ( Read more... )

I am single now, and by my own doing. Fuck ( Read more... )