December 2009
i have...
dreamsaremypilot:
Graduated High School. Kissed someone. Smoked cigarettes. Got so drunk you passed out. Rode every ride at an amusement park. Collected something really stupid. Gone to a rock concert. Helped someone. Gone fishing. Watched four movies in one night. Gone long periods of time with out sleep. Lied to someone. Been dumped. Snorted cocaine. Failed a class. Dealt drugs. Taken a...
we dream, we wish, we live. sweet memories of our own design. we close our eyes and fall forwards — head first. we fall… and fall… and fall… wingless birds of imagination, desperate to fly, determined to try, but we never fly — we soar!
let your mind wander, my dear. allow your mind to colour your dreams and determine your future as only you can, for you are the most...
Re-Write
The following bit had to be removed from my short story because of a voice change, so I have to re-write it. :(
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Dawn slowly crept into the bedroom, the pale...
You must read this! →
This is brilliant - it’s the original letter responding to Virginia’s question - “Is there a Santa Clause?
“One is not born a woman, one becomes one”
– Simon de Beauvoir, philosopher
“it is of the essence of a nation that all its individuals have lots of things in...”
– Ernest Renan
40 books - 30 to go
Goal to Reach: 70 Books
January
1.) Wicked Widow by Amanda Quick
2.) Grand Passion by Jayne Ann Krentz
3.) Wildest Hearts by Jayne Ann Krentz
4.)Scandal by Amanda Quick
5.)White Lies, an Arcane Society Novel by Jayne Ann Krentz
6.) Running Hot, an Arcane Society Novel by Jayne Ann Krentz
7.) Looking for Alaska by John Green
February
8.)An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
9.) The...
bookstore scamming
I think my college bookstore is scamming us or somewhere something is up. I signed up for a history class next term and two of the books required are More’s “Utopia” and Shelley’s “Frankinstein.” The bookstore has the two books in a bundle package for $81 used…. anyone seeing anything fishy yet? So, me being the cheep-o that I am, emailed the professor...
dooms day
Today I must do my LitAna speech…. I think I’m gonna be sick. Seriously. Oh hell…
“So don’t let anyone tell you you’re not worth the earth
These streets are your...”
– the King Blues, What if Punk Never Happened
“The origin of thinking is – perplexity.”
– John Dewey (1859-1952), American educator & Philosopher
“No great discovery was ever made in science except by one who lifted his nose...”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
in Morris Cohen, the Meaning of Human History (1947)
being creative
I feel like I should be more creative, but…
“A lesson to be learned from this puzzle is that it is not necessarily the pieces...”
– Peter Warlow, 1982, English Physicist & Author
“Among the forces which sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored man is...”
– Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
“Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather...”
– - John Green (via thechocolatebrigade)
NERDFIGHTERS.
(via dreamsaremypilot)
handicap stalls
The ominous handicap stall. Non-handicaps fear going into it, for what if a handicap person comes in? There’s only one handicap stall. So, us non-handicaps go into the regular stalls - those little ones with the wet, toilet paper covered floors and writing carved into the walls. (By and by, who has time to carve some of that stuff in the wall? Do they come back to see if anyone responds?)...
“Their strength is secret. They send ferocious roots beneath the ground. They...”
– Sandra Cisneros,The House on Mango Street
“We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be...”
– T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding, part V
Grampa gots a brand new girl!
So, found out my grampa has a “lady friend” :] that’s pretty cool if you ask me. guess he was a bit nervous about tellin’ my ma though.
lots of homework - sort of spazzing about that. terms almost done though :]
my workshop is tomar. >_< god im nervous! been reading comments that people posted on the class site - some are complete idiots, others aren’t all...
“The important thing is this:
To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are...”
– Charles Edouard du Bois (1847-1885), an American Painter
“Ya’ know what though, I don’t mind. I mean if my muscles ache,...”
– The Guardian (2006)
“On errands of life, these letters speed to death. Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!”
– Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scivener: A Story of Wall-street
6.12.09: did you know...
that the phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson” appears nowhere in the original Sherlock Holmes tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
“In that direction my windows commanded an unobstructed view of a lofty brick...”
– -Herman Melville, Bartleyby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street
“In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry,...”
– Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“The flames of the fire that the innkeeper had rekindled for his late-night...”
– Amanda Quick, Lie By Moonlight, chapter four.
“We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we...”
– H. D. Thoreau, Walden
39 Books
Goal to Reach: 70 Books
January
1.) Wicked Widow by Amanda Quick
2.) Grand Passion by Jayne Ann Krentz
3.) Wildest Hearts by Jayne Ann Krentz
4.)Scandal by Amanda Quick
5.)White Lies, an Arcane Society Novel by Jayne Ann Krentz
6.) Running Hot, an Arcane Society Novel by Jayne Ann Krentz
7.) Looking for Alaska by John Green
February
8.)An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
9.) The Paid...
The United States' Developmental Downward Spiral
The following is actually a poorly written paper for my psychology class (human development), but I thought it was kind of interesting once I finished it. So here it is.
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“Every path but your own is the path of fate.”
– H. D. Thoreau, Walden
“Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”
– H. D. Thoreau, Walden