April 2009
March 2009
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Re-living high school
Had my first Young Adult Literature class today. We’re reading a book or two a week, starting with Catcher in the Rye, which I didn’t really like when I read it the first time around. Then again, I was seventeen and I read it in the hospital before being knocked out for a procedure. Neither are the best conditions for reading a book.
I predict that half of my Tumblr from now on will...
various conversations, embellished by my lack of...
Yesterday, Krista and I:
Krista: “The sky looks horrible. Like the end of the world.”
Me: “Maybe it is. Maybe 2012 is all PREMATURE LOL.”
Krista: “You just said LOL aloud and will not be forgiven. Anyway, I was reading about 2012 the over break in Border’s, becase I’m cool and all, and there was some pretty convincing stuff. And I was thinking,...
Kermit Bale. I've had this bookmarked for a long... →
craig ferguson.
“How long’s this bit meant to be? You know, ‘cuz I can keep going here, I’m good. You might as well just hang around, what’s going to be next, the infomercial? You’ve either got a Bedazzler or you haven’t.” — See, he doesn’t really have my sense of humor, and he doesn’t make me laugh so much, but something about Craig Ferguson makes me giggle uncontrollably. Maybe because I TiVo him at home and...
Dora, those are not sensible exploring shoes. →
5 ways common sense lies to you everyday →
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Stephen Colbert on June 3, 2006 in his Commencement Address at Knox College. I wish more people here took this to heart.
postponing "growing up" since, like, forever.
This is my reading list for my Young Adult Literature class next term.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Thirsty by M.T. Anderson The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Monster by Walter Dean...
“…it judges and insults readers for misusing the word ‘love’....”
– From notes I wrote half-awake last night about Patrick Kavanagh’s “Love Poem.”
thoughts upon getting a blog. more like "blah-g",...
So. Now I have a Livejournal (coffin), a Myspace (nails), a Facebook (lowering it down), a Twitter (shoveling dirt on top) and, at last, a Tumblr (last bit’s packed in, boys, let’s go home).
