April 2010
16 posts
Plans for the Future
As of today at 11:07 p.m., my plans for the future are thus:
*take eight hours this summer, sixteen in the fall, sixteen next spring, order ring in December of my junior year :)
*graduate early, buy a ticket to France
*go to France for an indefinite time with no plans; the options range from ‘vacation’ for a few weeks, to ‘make new life’ for a few months
*play the rest...
SoC
You know the time, when one thought leads to another to another to another? Sometimes it feels like my brain is literally bouncing around my skull as it tries to sort through and think about and remember and rationalize and describe and experience and say and imagine fifty different things at once. Unfortunately, it’s a dark, scary place up in my noggin so I’ll spare you the gory...
Give it some oomph
If you’re too frightened to say the things that really need to be said about the things that matter, how is any of your life going to have meaning?
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via allthis-beauty) (via quote-book)
H-E-L-L
God help the person that would ever be stranded with me on a deserted island. They would want to do things like attract attention to our situation, like smoke signals or spelling out H-E-L-P in the sand or something. Me? Like hell I would wait for someone to come and rescue me.
A conversation between me and my companion would go something like this:
Stranded Person: Madelyne, that’s the...
Just like the movies
Do you ever think about how, for all the movies we watch and as fervently as we wish for our lives to be just like them, there are some things that we will never do? I was sitting here thinking the other day about the time that I slapped that guy for being a total jerk, then stormed off angrily and after a few days we got back together and lived happily ever after as music played and my wardrobe...
"I don't have a ticket!" - The Top 20 Players who...
worldcupreport:
By Dominic Vieira
Many faces will be absent at the World Cup this summer, take a look at the top 20 players who will not be participating at the World Cup.
20. Andrey Arshavin
The little Russian who stole the show at EURO 2008 looked certain to be a part of the World Cup under the reign of Russia’s Dutch manager, the great Guus Hiddink. However, Slovenia upset Arshavin’s...
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Go go go go go!
I’m trying to get everything down onto the page while I still have the enthusiasm and momentum. I’ll edit later. I can’t tell you how excited about this latest project that I am. Hopefully I’ll pull together some sort of synopsis in the next few weeks to give you guys a taste so that we can all be supremely excited together (you’ll pretend to be excited for me even if...
“I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks to much,...”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin (Submitted by: christinakim) (via quote-book)
Mostly
So I’m mostly over the whole issue but sometimes my heart just hurts, y’know? Makes me wonder if it’s something that you ever really let go.
