Reasons to wake up in the morning:
1. Interesting quotes said in Sociology lecture.
2. Overhearing conversation snippets on the bus.
3. Smiling people who notice you despite their headphones.
4. The blueness of the sky as it contrasts the burnished gold of the foliage.
5. Ben's birthday.
6. That Just-Brushed Clean Feeling.
7. Food. Mmmm, food.
8. Poetry - to write it and to read it.
9. Reading titles of health-related brochures.
10. Dan.
30 October 2007
25 October 2007
Mood.
What is this mood?
Unable to focus,
Pensive.
My brain
Here, there
Everywhere,
Up down allaround.
I don't like being taken for granted.
My fingers are cold.
Shivers run through my body.
What is this anger?
"I prefer to lick my wounds
alone
and then come out with my heart
slightly harder than it was before."
Who is the girl who says these things?
I thought I left her in my betraying adolescence
but it seems she's followed me here
My cheeks are flushed
Her presence in me
makes the hair stand up on my arms,
the back of my neck
What is this emotion?
Unable to focus,
Pensive.
My brain
Here, there
Everywhere,
Up down allaround.
I don't like being taken for granted.
My fingers are cold.
Shivers run through my body.
What is this anger?
"I prefer to lick my wounds
alone
and then come out with my heart
slightly harder than it was before."
Who is the girl who says these things?
I thought I left her in my betraying adolescence
but it seems she's followed me here
My cheeks are flushed
Her presence in me
makes the hair stand up on my arms,
the back of my neck
What is this emotion?
Post-Class Discussion Disorder
Glow-in-the-dark condoms + drunken boys = light-saber fights?
One wonders.
Sound effects?
Oh yes.
http://www.justrubbers.com/nightlight.html
...why am I not doing some of my copious amounts of homework?
Hmmmmmmn.
Maybe because I'm bored with it.
Huh.
Ben Kweller. Wow.
One wonders.
Sound effects?
Oh yes.
http://www.justrubbers.com/nightlight.html
...why am I not doing some of my copious amounts of homework?
Hmmmmmmn.
Maybe because I'm bored with it.
Huh.
Ben Kweller. Wow.
17 October 2007
List
On my Desk:
A mostly-empty can of Sprite
An orange, plastic Easter-egg containing small quantity of orange Silly Putty
A green little squishy man, supposed to relieve stress
A goblet I painted myself
A brushed-steel lamp
Speakers, plugged into my laptop
A pencil sharpener
A mostly-empty bottle of water
A small blue pyramid of uncertain origin which rattles when picked up
A squishy item in the shape of a desktop computer, supposed to relieve stress
CDs - Matchbox Twenty, Of Montreal, Michael Buble, Bob Dylan, Skillet, the Smiths
Beck, another Matchboxy Twenty, Kill Hannah, Semisonic
A cup of pens, pencils, and other instruments of destruction
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
A small notebook
Post-It notes
A mug displaying images of James Dean
An alarm clock - beg your pardon, an ANNOYING alarm clock
A Snoopy bank
A black-and-white paisley tissue box
An old bottle which once contained a pound of honey and now contains a bunch of quarters
A digital camera, not even mine
Some notes to self
My wallet
My phone
A can of soup, open, cold, and partially eaten
A spoon
Scissors
A mostly-empty can of Sprite
An orange, plastic Easter-egg containing small quantity of orange Silly Putty
A green little squishy man, supposed to relieve stress
A goblet I painted myself
A brushed-steel lamp
Speakers, plugged into my laptop
A pencil sharpener
A mostly-empty bottle of water
A small blue pyramid of uncertain origin which rattles when picked up
A squishy item in the shape of a desktop computer, supposed to relieve stress
CDs - Matchbox Twenty, Of Montreal, Michael Buble, Bob Dylan, Skillet, the Smiths
Beck, another Matchboxy Twenty, Kill Hannah, Semisonic
A cup of pens, pencils, and other instruments of destruction
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
A small notebook
Post-It notes
A mug displaying images of James Dean
An alarm clock - beg your pardon, an ANNOYING alarm clock
A Snoopy bank
A black-and-white paisley tissue box
An old bottle which once contained a pound of honey and now contains a bunch of quarters
A digital camera, not even mine
Some notes to self
My wallet
My phone
A can of soup, open, cold, and partially eaten
A spoon
Scissors
16 October 2007
Gallant
He'd save me if I was threatening to jump off a bridge.
...he'd CERTAINLY prevent me from falling out of bed. :D
And yet, he's so far away.
People ask, what can you do?
I answer, love one another.
They laugh, my friends, my acquaintances.
Cynical college students, all,
On the cusp of bitter adulthood, frustrated about one thing or another.
Love, some argue, doesn't exist.
It's nature's way of tricking us into reproducing,
Or society invented it,
And we keep doing it because Disney tells us to.
http://xkcd.com/150/
...he'd CERTAINLY prevent me from falling out of bed. :D
And yet, he's so far away.
People ask, what can you do?
I answer, love one another.
They laugh, my friends, my acquaintances.
Cynical college students, all,
On the cusp of bitter adulthood, frustrated about one thing or another.
Love, some argue, doesn't exist.
It's nature's way of tricking us into reproducing,
Or society invented it,
And we keep doing it because Disney tells us to.
http://xkcd.com/150/
16 November 2006
Bits from Freewebs
So.. my Freewebs site is under construction (yet again). Here's what was on the Thoughts page.
11-28-05
First: Regarding LoveI think that love is really, as Pink Floyd states, a momentary lapse of reason that binds a life for life. This makes sense because all it really takes is one moment, and that person can be under your skin forever.
Second: Regarding Life Lessons and My FatherHere are some things I've learned from my father over the years.
1. When using a staple gun, it always works better if you say "Oy!" while you staple.
2. Taco salad tastes better on the couch in front of the football game.
3. Iowa City is the greatest city in the world.
4. When stretching, yelling "Kasban! Salabah!" at the top of your lungs increases stretch productivity.
5. When you can't remember someone's name, either
a) invent a song to go with it (ex. "Folly-Molly-Tauke-Ray-oh")
b) call them by the first name that pops into your head
(ex. "Amos" instead of "Andy" for your daughter's boyfriend)
6. Drawstrings on pants are for people with inhibitions.
7. There's a difference between good rock and bad rock, and the difference is this:
the Who vs. Queen
(in modern-day terms, Green Day vs. Good Charlotte)
8. Raise thy daughter in thy own image, lest she turn out just like everyone else.
11-22-05: Regarding "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles [Album = Magical Mystery Tour] I see John Lennon standing in front of a movie screen in an empty theater. He is moving slightly, in time with the music, as he sings. As the song progresses, the screen behind him flickers to life, displaying random images and scenes of humanity. The scenes play faster and faster until a crowd of people whorls by at 80 times normal speed. John continues singing and moving in time with the music. The screen turns to static as the song reaches its climax… then turns to blue. As the song ends, John stops singing. Simultaneously, he freezes, and is silhouetted from behind by a dazzling white spotlight.
11-22-05
I have this to say about nachos:
Go light on the chips and heavy with the cheese. Don’t use plastic plates. The 34 seconds you microwave them for can be used to seal the chip bag and put it back in the pantry. Also, you’ll have time to seal the bag of shredded cheese and replace it in the fridge. Variety in cheese is good – cheddar, Colby, Monterey jack, Swiss, mozzarella…Ranch dressing adds great flavour. Wash them down with milk
11-19-05
I really do better off without my family, just sitting here and listening to Sinead O'Connor.
I hope I die before I get old. I don't want to be dependent ever again.
Man oh man, am I tired.
What precisely is the reasoning behind mullets?
11-10-05 I called Dan because talking about nothing in particular to someone who doesn’t hear gossip about me is a very appealing thing. It makes me feel better.
Right now, all I can do is sit here in the dark, listen to A Perfect Circle’s version of “People are People”, and hate myself.
11-9-05 Walking around town today, I grew pensive. I wore my black Converse high tops, black jeans, a black trench coat, and my Pink Floyd cap with all the pins on. There was money and a cell phone in my pocket and a little black backpack on my back. I carried a steaming hot chocolate in my hand. My nose and cheeks were rosy, and I felt like a young woman in the city: content, thoughtful.
Love. 10-16-05
Love is a funny thing. When I was younger, I wasn't going to fall in love; there was no doubt. Once I hit puberty, it was more of an "I don't want to fall in love" thing (Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Green Day). There's also "I don't want to wait in vain for your love" (Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley). And here I go... it's happened to me, just like I never thought it would. I'm in love with someone who is so unlike me at first glance you'd laugh. But once you got to know him like you know me, you'd realize that we're not so different at all.
Then there are the things that no one knows about me but him. These are the areas where we're most alike.
I never used to have a future, you know? I never wanted to be around people... I was going to go live the ascetic lifestyle of a hermit and write frightening verse to buck-toothed girls in Luxembourg (Ask - the Smiths). But now I do want to spend the rest of my life with someone.
Crazy.
First. 9-16-05
I deleted the Depressed Entries page, since I am no longer so depressed, and have changed it to merely Thoughts, which you have here. Whenever it is possible, I shall record a thought for you here, whichever has been most on my mind that particular day. Here's to today's...
One must be proactive, not reactionary.
There's also, "Holy effing crap, a CHEMISTRY test?!"
Intro - Welcome to My Thoughts
I’ve got this to say about life – you learn a heckuva lot. How to tie your shoes. How to get dressed. How to read; how to write. What not to tell your parents. Names of colours, names of shapes, names of countries, states, capitals. Songs, bands, genres of music, movies, books. How to add, subtract, multiply, divide, solve for unknown variables, logarithms. How to determine the chemical makeup of a compound. How to draw a portrait. Letters of the alphabet. How to count. How to walk, how to run, what happens when you touch a hot stove or anger a dog. The definitions of more words than you use on a daily basis. The names of the Beatles – then the names of the Who, of Queen, of Pink Floyd, Green Day, NOFX, the Story Changes, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Antigenre. How to alphabetize things; how to use the Dewey Decimal System. Sometimes it’s little things you learn that you don’t think people pay enough attention to. That’s why you write about them and post what you wrote on the “Thoughts” page of your Freewebs.
Well then.
Another recently-learned life lesson. Love sucks.
"Love hurts, love scars...""Love is old, love is new..."
Aiee.
11-28-05
First: Regarding LoveI think that love is really, as Pink Floyd states, a momentary lapse of reason that binds a life for life. This makes sense because all it really takes is one moment, and that person can be under your skin forever.
Second: Regarding Life Lessons and My FatherHere are some things I've learned from my father over the years.
1. When using a staple gun, it always works better if you say "Oy!" while you staple.
2. Taco salad tastes better on the couch in front of the football game.
3. Iowa City is the greatest city in the world.
4. When stretching, yelling "Kasban! Salabah!" at the top of your lungs increases stretch productivity.
5. When you can't remember someone's name, either
a) invent a song to go with it (ex. "Folly-Molly-Tauke-Ray-oh")
b) call them by the first name that pops into your head
(ex. "Amos" instead of "Andy" for your daughter's boyfriend)
6. Drawstrings on pants are for people with inhibitions.
7. There's a difference between good rock and bad rock, and the difference is this:
the Who vs. Queen
(in modern-day terms, Green Day vs. Good Charlotte)
8. Raise thy daughter in thy own image, lest she turn out just like everyone else.
11-22-05: Regarding "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles [Album = Magical Mystery Tour] I see John Lennon standing in front of a movie screen in an empty theater. He is moving slightly, in time with the music, as he sings. As the song progresses, the screen behind him flickers to life, displaying random images and scenes of humanity. The scenes play faster and faster until a crowd of people whorls by at 80 times normal speed. John continues singing and moving in time with the music. The screen turns to static as the song reaches its climax… then turns to blue. As the song ends, John stops singing. Simultaneously, he freezes, and is silhouetted from behind by a dazzling white spotlight.
11-22-05
I have this to say about nachos:
Go light on the chips and heavy with the cheese. Don’t use plastic plates. The 34 seconds you microwave them for can be used to seal the chip bag and put it back in the pantry. Also, you’ll have time to seal the bag of shredded cheese and replace it in the fridge. Variety in cheese is good – cheddar, Colby, Monterey jack, Swiss, mozzarella…Ranch dressing adds great flavour. Wash them down with milk
11-19-05
I really do better off without my family, just sitting here and listening to Sinead O'Connor.
I hope I die before I get old. I don't want to be dependent ever again.
Man oh man, am I tired.
What precisely is the reasoning behind mullets?
11-10-05 I called Dan because talking about nothing in particular to someone who doesn’t hear gossip about me is a very appealing thing. It makes me feel better.
Right now, all I can do is sit here in the dark, listen to A Perfect Circle’s version of “People are People”, and hate myself.
11-9-05 Walking around town today, I grew pensive. I wore my black Converse high tops, black jeans, a black trench coat, and my Pink Floyd cap with all the pins on. There was money and a cell phone in my pocket and a little black backpack on my back. I carried a steaming hot chocolate in my hand. My nose and cheeks were rosy, and I felt like a young woman in the city: content, thoughtful.
Love. 10-16-05
Love is a funny thing. When I was younger, I wasn't going to fall in love; there was no doubt. Once I hit puberty, it was more of an "I don't want to fall in love" thing (Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Green Day). There's also "I don't want to wait in vain for your love" (Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley). And here I go... it's happened to me, just like I never thought it would. I'm in love with someone who is so unlike me at first glance you'd laugh. But once you got to know him like you know me, you'd realize that we're not so different at all.
Then there are the things that no one knows about me but him. These are the areas where we're most alike.
I never used to have a future, you know? I never wanted to be around people... I was going to go live the ascetic lifestyle of a hermit and write frightening verse to buck-toothed girls in Luxembourg (Ask - the Smiths). But now I do want to spend the rest of my life with someone.
Crazy.
First. 9-16-05
I deleted the Depressed Entries page, since I am no longer so depressed, and have changed it to merely Thoughts, which you have here. Whenever it is possible, I shall record a thought for you here, whichever has been most on my mind that particular day. Here's to today's...
One must be proactive, not reactionary.
There's also, "Holy effing crap, a CHEMISTRY test?!"
Intro - Welcome to My Thoughts
I’ve got this to say about life – you learn a heckuva lot. How to tie your shoes. How to get dressed. How to read; how to write. What not to tell your parents. Names of colours, names of shapes, names of countries, states, capitals. Songs, bands, genres of music, movies, books. How to add, subtract, multiply, divide, solve for unknown variables, logarithms. How to determine the chemical makeup of a compound. How to draw a portrait. Letters of the alphabet. How to count. How to walk, how to run, what happens when you touch a hot stove or anger a dog. The definitions of more words than you use on a daily basis. The names of the Beatles – then the names of the Who, of Queen, of Pink Floyd, Green Day, NOFX, the Story Changes, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Antigenre. How to alphabetize things; how to use the Dewey Decimal System. Sometimes it’s little things you learn that you don’t think people pay enough attention to. That’s why you write about them and post what you wrote on the “Thoughts” page of your Freewebs.
Well then.
Another recently-learned life lesson. Love sucks.
"Love hurts, love scars...""Love is old, love is new..."
Aiee.
18 October 2006
Current Event
He added: “Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush, so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15217627/
Do a current event on this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15217627/
Do a current event on this.
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