January 2011
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A Story
I’ve lived my life within a sphere, made of the thinnest glass. I’ve sat within this crystal sphere, watching but not participating, listening but not speaking. There’s a door, but it’s ever so small, and very hard to open. Every so often someone breaks through, but not without a great effort. Prying open a person sealed with secrets is a difficult thing to do. They...
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Honey Sun
We set our chairs beneath the sun. Thick flies swarmed around us, black and buzzing and big-eyed, but they couldn’t break through our nets. Leaning back we closed our eyes and let the sun bleed in. Absorbing it in through our fingers, we let it settle in our bellies, thick and warm and heavy. Like sweet honey, it coated our tongues so we couldn’t even speak.
“Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that...”
– G.K. Chesterton
I have reached a new level of nerd.
Making dirigible plum earrings while watching Criminal Minds. On a Friday night.
Do you ever...
read something that you’ve written in the past, maybe a story or a journal entry or something, and think, “Wow. I’m either brilliant or I’m freaking mental.”
Cause that keeps happening to me.
Except I’m leaning towards the mental aspect.
Blah.
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And...my Christmas break is here. YAY college!
No more crazy roomie…at least till January :/
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing...”
– Gertrude Stein
I swear, my roommate from last year/suitemate for...
You see, my problem is that I always forgive people, always, even when they don’t deserve it. Clearly, I need to work on this. It’s not okay for her to keep getting away with her hissy fit tantrums. My niece is more mature than her, and she barely just turned four. It’s semi-ridiculous and mildly entertaining. I just wish I was watching it instead of living it.
