Quote of the Day

"All I know is Frosty is a criminal, a freakish being made of ice, somehow animated with the blood of demons."

~ Jason 

trivia

I was once mistaken for a male on the phone.

Quote of the Day

"If you don't know, as of today, Facebook will automatically start plunging the Earth into the Sun. To change this option, go to Settings --> Planetary Settings --> Trajectory then UN-CLICK the box that says 'Apocalypse.' Facebook kept this one quiet." 
~ Katie

funny/awkward/awful things said to me while making out

- "Man, I hope [girl he wants to ask out] kisses as good as you..."
- *disappointed sigh* "You're a nerd girl, I guess I shouldn't expect you to know how to please a man."
- Not actually a quote, but one guy had this way of slipping into an inadvertent Irish accent when he was feeling both tired & turned on. It was fantastic.
- "You're such a good friend."
- "Someday you'll find the man for you."

Quote of the Day

"So are they gonna film Breaking Dawn? I've always wanted to see a movie where a werewolf falls in love with a baby."
~ Taylor

Quote of the Day

Gabrielle: "RIP John Lennon...[facebook status]"

Katie: "Is your news feed lagging, Gabes? Cause I'm pretty sure John Lennon died like 30 years ago..."

so sad

I feel like I should be allowed refunds on time. Like the five minutes I just spent waiting for this guy to take his hand out of his pocket so I could see if there was a ring on it. There was. I want that five minutes of my life back >.<

Quote of the Day

"Do breasts and singleness - singularity? - just cause awkward guys to crawl out of the woodwork or something?"

~ Cole

thanksgiving

This time last year...well, everything wasn't fine, especially in academic terms, but at least I had a boyfriend of two years and we were progressing nicely. He invited me to come to his uncle's house in Seattle for Thanksgiving, which thrilled me to no end. I mean, going to meet relatives, staying with them for holidays - that's what you do in SERIOUS relationships! All was going well!

I really liked his family...and his uncle & aunt have a GORGEOUS house. It felt very nice & official to be introduced to everyone as 'the girlfriend' and whatnot.

Well, now it's a year later, and the two of us broke up in May. There were good reasons for ending it, though it tore me up at the time, obviously.

Now, almost six months later, I'm pretty much over it...except for stupid things like remembering last Thanksgiving and just how...perfect everything felt. Also there's this theme park that my dad's work gives every family in the company tickets to around the holidays, and I haven't been there since last time...when he came with us...

We're still good friends, and I see him all the time, and things aren't even that awkward, really. I guess I just miss the sense of knowing where I belong.

Quote of the Day

Nic: "It's a love triangle."

Casey: "More like a love parallelogram."

...did i just say that out loud?

Phrase I never really saw myself saying in class (that somehow ended up being said anyway): "He was just rubbing her back, not grabbing her boobs."

Quote of the Day

Gabrielle: "Llamas go insane if you only have one."

Cole: "I want one for my birthday. Just one. So I can watch it twitch."

Quote of the Day

Taylor: "If you would have just let me take control..."

Gabrielle: "Every time I let you take control, bad things happen..."

Taylor: "That's what she said - right before you were conceived! OH!"

Quote of the Day

"Do Ents get morning wood?" 
~ Luke

foxy

I'm not sure why this is, but my brothers & a bunch of other males I know seem to get some kind of thing out of saying they don't think Megan Fox is hot. Like they're showing off how they aren't conforming to everyone else's typical taste in what's attractive in a female, see how deep I am? blah blah blah.

Well, I'd just like to say that I adore Megan Fox, and would totally hit that. Screw you all.

Quote of the Day

"For the longest time I thought a serial killer was somebody who went around smashing cheerios in a rage."
~ Katie

Quote of the Day

Shiloh: "That's either the Monkees or the Beatles."

Gabrielle: "It's...Bob Dylan, actually..."

Quote of the Day

"Hearing a nun's confession is like being stoned to death with popcorn."

~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen

bahahaha

HA

'Stuff I Like' fixed! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME, BLOGGER!

Quote of the Day

"Dude, get a boyfriend, a new one. Seriously, go out, find a hot dude, be all, "You’re hot, I mean hi," then when he looks disgusted and says “Ew, no!” go eat some ice cream and watch a romance flick. Then do it again. Rinse, wash, repeat, until sex."

~ Elliott

Quote of the Day

Thomas: "Prefrosh in Saga - it's what's for dinner!"

*prefrosh sitting nearby begin whispering anxiously*

Quote of the Day

"She's at that impossible age between 11 and 25..."

~ Monk

*sighs very loudly*

Where the HELL is all my 'stuff I like?' That little blogroll thinger took a long time to set up and now it is all GONE. Pffff.

to business (TO BUSINESS!)

Probably the only person who would get the above title is one of my brothers, and even then only possibly if it were shrieked at the right decibel with the proper accompanying hand gesture. (Why does 'hand gesture' always sound like it's referring to flipping the bird? Maybe it's just me...)

I'm changing the title/webby address again, mostly because the current-soon-to-be-former title (Logicgal) while kind of stupidly clever, utilizes the word 'gal' (which I dislike) and is also a relic of my May Mania.

I really advise anyone reading this for the first time to disregard anything posted in May that isn't a Quote of the Day. And actually a lot of things in April are bullshit too...*watches everyone run off to read those two months* And despite my best efforts I haven't been able to figure out how to delete posts yet, so, er, yeah. I figured out how to delete things, bitches! BITCH-IZ.

May Mania will be DEFEATED, dammit.

!!!

Oh. My. God.

DAN SAVAGE IS COMING TO WHITWORTH ON THE 21ST OF OCTOBER.

*squee*

Quote of the Day

"The black stuff in your pencil is actually crystallised soul. When you die, you become pencils. Lots of them."

~ Elliott

Quote of the Day

"Just relax. It's not a colonoscopy."
~ Sean

Quote of the Day

"As long as we have American Idol and high fructose corn syrup, I doubt the people are willing to rebel."

~ Guy

Quote of the Day

Deb: "I'm being stalked by a mosquito."
Elliott: "Creepy motherfuckers. Is it wearing a trench coat? Call the cops."
Deb: "I think it's NAKED."

Quote of the Day

"There's us, and then there's everyone else, and they suck."
~ Forrest Baird

Quote of the Day

[00:44] Gabrielle: btw, please never use the words 'stretched-out' and 'ass' in the same sentence again, kthnx
[00:44] Taylor: lol

two months later...

Ohai. Um. I'm not dead. Just didn't have a lot to write about - plus I forgot my Blogger password for a while, haha.

I started school again, at Whitworth again this year, thank goodness. It's my second week of classes, and I haven't stopped enjoying it yet :) I love it there so much. Classes are:

Anglo-Saxon Lit (with my advisor, which is always fun)
African Lit
Core 250 (discussion group with Leonard Oakland...major plus)
20th Century Brit Lit
Religious Themes in Literature

A lot of Lit classes, obviously - reading out the ass - but I like to read, so I can deal. I switched some bits of my major around - I used to be a double-track Writing & Lit major. Now I'm just a Lit major, but I'm also planning on getting my teaching certification, just as a back-up.

one of the rules

I think there should be some sort of rule that once you've sung a song to someone in a romantic context, you shouldn't be allowed to sing it to anyone else. It's just weird and insulting otherwise, like reusing old pet names.

Quote of the Day

[20:41] Jason: I also got straight cookie dough
[20:41] Jason: Just in case
[20:41] Gabrielle as opposed to its popular san francisco counterpart, gay cookie dough
[20:41] Jason: yes

summer 09

I hereby christen this summer "The Summer of Being Nagged and Broke."  Possible runner-ups include The Summer of Being Unlucky in Romantic Endeavors and The Summer of Long Daytime Naps.

I bit the bullet this week and decided to help out in my church's VBS program.  I'm working in Preschool Crafts section with Cindy, the lady who also teaches the college group Bible study on Sundays. She's pretty cool, as evidenced by today when she brought cinnamon oatmeal cookies and Dr Pepper. Woo.

Preschoolers brains...are not inclined toward craft activities. Even the concept of stickers seem to elude them. Projects including stickers usually end in the beginning material being decorated with Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa-esque piles of one sticker on top of another and another, ad nauseum.  Paste, too, is a challenge. Today the table I was on had a project with a silhouette of a sheep which they could cover in paste and then stick cotton balls to, simulating wool.  The most common problem seemed to be that they didn't press down hard enough on the paste to leave a usable amount on the paper. How hard is this to understand?

"Teacher! It's not working!"

No, you're just not doing it right.

Gah.

regrets...

"It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."


Goddamn it, Holden, you were right.

well...

I WAS feeling slightly depressed about not having really written anything lately, except that I clicked someone's blog linked to on their Twitter - two posts and she's been at it since December, and both of them exhorting people our age (she's 20 too) to make a difference in the world.

Uh-huh. Look, chica, until you actually manage to produce enough to live up to that 'writer' label, I don't think you can be hitting the rest of us about the ears with OMG ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING FOR ONCE claptrap.

In other news: Got rehired at the place I worked last summer, and hope to move out. We'll see.

Quote of the Day

Nick Friggin [Conspirafag]: I want a quote! Hold on. Let me make a good quote.
LogicGal VonMarie: lawl. BE ORIGINAL
Nick Friggin [Conspirafag]: Um....fuck, this is hard.

Quote of the Yesterday

“I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don’t hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they’re all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.”
~ Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Quote of the Day

"I add consonants sometimes when I laugh..."

~ Katie

Quote of the Day

"Now, making Gabe disgusted about something... That's quite the accomplishment. ...Unless you're the Catholic Church."
~ Cole

movei recommunedation

Død snø


Movie.


With Nazi Zombies.


That run fast.


Snow.


Hot girls and guys.


Funny.


Indie.


Norwegian.


^_^

kipling revisited

by Alun Rees


If you can vote yourself enormous pay-offs
while shutting factories down and sacking staff;
if you can ignore the human cost of lay-offs
and go skipping blithely backwards with a laugh;
if you can raid a pension fund for profit
and claim you're well entitled to being boss,
advising
those objecting to come off it
for chaps like you must never take a loss;

if you can urge the jobless to rely on
market forces to get them back on track;
if while war's waged you keep a beady eye on
large profits to be stolen from Iraq;
if you can fix the game to boost your fortune
whilst those you've robbed are left to beg for bread
and tell them it's a temporary distortion
and better times are waiting up ahead;

if you can snatch a public service (via
a PFI, which means the public pay);
if you can hoist your income even higher
and when the service crashes walk away;
if you can count your gold without a flicker
of conscience or one moment of self-doubt,
and go on looting, looting even quicker
in case the stream of money should run out;

if you can shout that working folk are greedy,
expecting job security and such;
if you can blame the undeserving needy
for problems, for they're asking far too much;
if you can fall asleep inside a minute
after a day of thieving just for fun,
yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
and - more - you'll be a capitalist, my son.

ooh. this is fun :D

I'm blogging using something Blogger recommended to me called "Blogger in draft"?

I guess it's s'posed to be some sort of beta testing thinger or whatever.

It is what it is.

And I approve :D

re: swine flu

"President Barack Obama says the spread of swine flu is a cause for concern but “not a cause of alarm” and he’s staying on top of the problem."

~ Source: MSNBC

"I'm learning to fall," she said

There comes a time in every friendship when we disagree.  

I don't mean the silly squabbles about what to do once you finally decide to hang out Friday night, or whether that one movie really did deserve to win the Oscar for "Best Picture".  

No, I'm talking about a REAL disagreement.  Raised voices, maybe some tears, and a cooling period will occur before both the parties involved can talk to each other in a civil manner again. 

It's always a little frightening the first time it happens, at least for me.  I seem to have a secret hope, no matter how many times it's proven wrong, that with this person, we won't disagree.  Or if we do, we'll settle it quickly and it won't stretch out into an actual fight.  Of course, it never happens.  Or, if it doesn't, I realize that the friendship has become shallow.  Not daring to risk it on the rocks of talking about anything important, or showing enough of myself that things turn serious, my friend and I no longer connect. 

It seems that, the closer I get to someone, the more inevitable it is that we will eventually fight, and fight quite badly. There is something that touches both of us deeply enough that it is worth risking the friendship to speak of.  

I don't mean that there is a conscious decision - a realization that what happens next is going to drive all parties involved to fury.  I just mean that things happen when people get really close.  Bad things.  

Someone will say something uncalled for. The other person says something equally awful back.  And before we know it, we've just had a fight that could sever me from the other person forever.  If both of us hold a grudge, the bitterness will grow.  And that's when the choice comes.  Is this person worth enough to me to work through this fight, and become better friends because of it?  Am I going to allow simple, stupid human nature to prevent me from getting to know someone who, really, is one of the most awesome people I have ever met?

Hopefully, the answer is no.  Any good friendship has scars.  Any relationship worth holding on to isn't pretty.  

But the point of scars is not to show pain, it is to show healing.  

There was once a wound, yes.  

But it's better now.  

WE'RE better now.

I "...resemble Shakespeare, Milton, and Donne".

[Anything in brackets/italics is added by me]

quiz taken: What Literary Time Period Are You?

"[My] Result: Early Modern Period...

You resemble Shakespeare, Milton, and Donne. You're socially-savvy, negotiating the death of kings, civil wars, religious controversies, patronage systems, court intrigue -- people would have trouble finding the "real you," if it weren't for the occasional soliloquy that sets us straight. Your plotlines tend to be rather hackneyed -- the Fall of Man, twins and mistaken identities -- but your language is beautiful, seductive, captivating. ["]Had we [but] world enough and time["], we'd listen to you all day long. Way to go, Early Modern Period! You are studiously indifferent."

"[I especially loved this part (italics mine) -] [P]eople would have trouble finding the "real you," if it weren't for the occasional soliloquy that sets us straight..."

Quote of the Day

"The issue of Barack Obama's legs is not political!"
~ Katie

detached haiku

by Brandon Scott Gorrell

everything is like
reality but only
happening sometimes

blog comment to post

Why am I posting this on here? Because I posted it on an Xanga account that hasn't been used in four years, and I kind of doubt it'll see the light of day otherwise. AND I AM ARROGANT AND WANT PEOPLE TO READ IT. DON'T JUDGE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE xD

I basically quoted the guy at length and then inserted my thoughts in brackets, then added a little postscript. Tada.

Anything in quotes = "HIM". Anything in brackets/italics/bolds = [ME.]

"So I was talking to a friend yesterday, who, like any other decent guy [or woman, who has ever had any contact with a female in the course of their entire life, really], has some women problems...

...But that's a guy thinking, and generally our brains operate with logic, something that most women, not all, but most, don't possess [don't make obvious use of, it seems, at times]...

...I know I'm a [self-described] nice guy who's in a long term relationship with a girl right now. I consider myself lucky. My girlfriend actually likes it that I treat her with respect. Stunning, ain't it? [Yes, actually, particularly if you respond to her no-doubt-always-logically-based-and-OMIGOD-NEVER-emotionally-based-comments/thoughts the same way you responded to the girls quoted in the article that you utterly failed to link to.])...

...Whoops, that's the logic talking again [Wow, overuse of sarcasm much? These girls were logical and clear-headed in speaking their reasons for dating so-called 'asshole' guys. Give em a break. I know, I know, that's just the emotion talking again. Pshaw, right?]...

...Yeah. It's a real challenge to go out there, sieze the day, go out and be treated like a piece of dirt. Right. *cuckoo* [Actually, it is. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again...and expecting a different result! These girls are apparently not insane. They do the same thing over and over again and are ENTIRELY AWARE of the result it will eventually engender. Not insane. Just stupid, at least if they simultaneously profess any hope of getting with a guy who doesn't need 'fixing,' AKA a cliched fairy-tale 'happy ending.']...

...This chick deserves the award for dumb bitch of the year. First, hot is still spelled with 1 t, having three does not make a person hotter, it makes them an idiot. Second, loud cars do not correlate with assholeness, unless this world is really that fucking retarded. [Slow down, Speedy Gonzales. Did she insert the "with 3 t's," or did you? If it was her, as I suspect, then STFU, she has a grasp of the concept commonly known as 'irony,' meaning she probably KNOWS the correct spelling (hence the paragraphical note), therefore not denoting how the person is more hot than the usual, unadapted word indicates, but doing a thing we English majors like to call EMPHASIZING. Google it. And yes, actually, loud cars DO correspond with assholeness, in that they indicate a general preference for aggression over passivity and a disregard for the opinions of others (that's my extended definition/inference of course; Wikipedia defines an asshole as "profanity towards someone the speaker does not like or whose behavior is hurtful, self-centered, or particularly abrasive."]...

...But that's the thing, they don't treat you nicely. Maybe breifly in order to get in the sack, but that's it. I still no comprendo. [Wrong again. Depends what kind of asshole. Some are nice all the time, but blunt using words to the point that others are led to call them derogatory terms such as just that, 'asshole.' In which case a girl could (possibly) be forgiven for befriending/dating/sleeping with one.]...

...Okay, I stand corrected. THIS chick wins award for dumb bitch of the year. [WHY? Jesus! She was honest. And her statement makes sense. If the thing one dislikes about nice guys is that they're passive, then dating an asshole so as to cause the nice guys to become jealous makes perfect sense! Why? When people are jealous/angry/insert expression of strong emotion here, it makes it harder for them to be passive. I assume this girl hopes her passively dating an asshole will cause the 'nice guys' to move out of THEIR usual passivity and be prodded to be bold. Really, the only thing you can fault her for is not being articulate.]...

... I think that often people mistakenly associate nice with dorky, when the two don't necessarily correlate. [Hey, don't diss dorky. Wikipedia defines dork as "USA pejorative slang for a quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same intelligence level." I am a geek/nerd/dork currently dating a nerd/geek/dork, and take umbrage with you placing the word in a negative context without explanation! :)]...

...Yes, a guy who wants to stick his dick in you, but simultaneously wants to NOT treat you like roadkill is obviously gay or wanna be gay. This is giving me a headache. [Stop using gay as an insult, you fag. ;P]...

...Sometimes you get what you deserve. A big, fat, dick. [LOL.]...

...So it's masculine to be a jerk? Nobody sent me a memo. [Just like it's feminine to be a bitch (in other words, HERE'S YOUR MEMO).]"

*whew* Sorry if all that was overly negative. In short, you're funny, but you can't simultaneously accuse an entire gender of being illogical 2/3 of the time and then go and be illogical yourself. It isn't fair, and it's MUCH too fun to poke fun at :D

Quote of the Day

"Motorcycles themselves aren't dangerous. They're just intolerant of the unskilled, unaware, or egotistical riders."
~ Austin

g.l.s.e.t.q.l. & o.n.: 18

"There is this thing keeping everyone's lungs & lips locked -

It is called 'fear' and it's seeing a great renaissance."

~ Sing, The Dresden Dolls

Quote of the Day

"There is no such thing as a virtuous hero. There are no witty sidekicks. Real life doesn’t contain crazed super villains who exist only to kick puppies and give the star of the show a believable character arc. Reality and fiction are two totally different things. People are complex. Situations aren’t black and white. There is a spoon, people! THERE IS A GODDAMN SPOON!"
~ VA

Quote of the Day

"I'd totally go gay for Tolkien." 

~ Taylor

*in voice of heath ledger's joker* and here...we...go.

Well.

*clears throat nervously*

This is slightly awkward.

*plays with bracelet*

Best to get it over with, I suppose.

*squares shoulders*

Hi, world.

I'm bisexual, to use the term commonly accepted to mean "physically attracted to people of both genders."

I also follow Jesus, as best I can.

...

That's about it.



comments/messages/questions/outrage/prayers/threats/excitement are all allowed/encouraged/wanted.

blog comment to blog: education! and childhood! and parents. etc.

my dad is an electrical engineer, and we had a really interesting debate last week about the oil problem and alternative energy sources and stuff. this was reassuring to me, because his usual answer when one brings up the energy crisis & suchlike things is, "well, it doesn't matter, because jesus is coming soon." my response is, predictably, not a visceral reaction of "WTF YOU SHALLOW MORON" but instead a theological response of, "yes, but they've been saying that since a month after the resurrection! GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND!" anyway, it was reassuring to know that he has 'alternate' opinions in case some reporter ever sticks a microphone in his face and/or he ends up surviving past the point where we have to gas to burn in our fucking soccer mom SUVs.  

*inhales*  

really i can't get too pissy about my parents for their occasionally odd fundie viewpoints, because they are that rare beast: EDUCATED fundies, who are really stuck on education for their children.  

basically they started savings accounts for all four of their children and have been saving up, really, since their married life started, to make sure all of us could go to college, and have so far managed to put all of us through private school/homeschool for our elementary/middle school/high school parts of life. and they have basically zero credit card debt.  

so i've always had that weird perspective on life: going to school with rich white kids who lived in rich neighborhoods, threw away money like dirty kleenex, and took EVERYTHING for granted.  

fuck that noise, as my friend jack would say.  

education is important, even if you have to shove it down your kid's throat. EDUCATE THEM NOW SO THEY CAN ARGUE COHERENTLY WITH YOU LATER, DAMMIT.

Quote of the Day

"Dear Edward: Piss off, you poser."
~ Dracula

g.l.s.e.t.q.l. & o.n.: 17

"Why can't I sleep at night? Don't say 'it's gonna be alright.' I wanna be able to eat spaghetti bolognaise and not feel bad about it for days and days and days. All the magazines they talk about weight loss - if I buy those jeans I can look just like Kate Moss- oh no, it's not the life that I chose...but I guess it's just the way that things go."

~ Everything's Wonderful, Lily Allen

Quote of the Day

Michael wants to remind you that the good book tells us that Jesus ran with the party crowd!

g.l.s.j.e.t.q.l. & o.n.: 16

"All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things- trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make up a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that's a small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say."
~ The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis

g.l.s.j.e.t.q.l. & o.n.: 15

in time of daffodils...
by e.e. cummings

in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me

Quote of the Day

"Eminem once said 'I am whatever you say I am' and the bold title of Mykle Hansen's book stands out as an unintentional echo of this statement for the Bizarro community. Provocateurs? Yup. Obsessed with sex and poo jokes? So was Dali." 
~ Garrett Cook

g.l.s.j.e.t.q.l. & o.n.: 14

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
~ Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

g.l.s.j.e.t.q.l. & o.n.: 13

The World Is a Beautiful Place
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don't mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don't sing
all the time

The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only starving
some of the time
which isn't half bad
if it isn't you

Oh the world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't much mind
a few dead minds
in the higher places
or a bomb or two
now and then
in your upturned faces
or such other improprieties
as our Name Brand society
is prey to
with its men of distinction
and its men of extinction
and its priests
and other patrolmen

and its various segregations
and congressional investigations
and other constipations
that our fool flesh
is heir to

Yes the world is the best place of all
for a lot of such things as
making the fun scene
and making the love scene
and making the sad scene
and singing low songs and having inspirations
and walking around
looking at everything
and smelling flowers
and goosing statues
and even thinking
and kissing people and
making babies and wearing pants
and waving hats and
dancing
and going swimming in rivers
on picnics
in the middle of the summer
and just generally
'living it up'
Yes
but then right in the middle of it
comes the smiling

mortician

Quote of the Day

Terry is adding a couple more abbreviations to the texting lexicon: GMFB (Give me a freakin' break) and SHMGIYT"LOL"OMTIFANBFF (So help me God, if you text "LOL" one more time I'm finding a new best friend forever).

g.l.s.j.e.t.q.l. & o.n.: 12

"Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death."

~ Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins

Quote of the Day

"Don't worry, like I've said before I'm sure...both of you scare me just the way you are :) " 

~ Tara

The Sun Never Says

by Hafiz 

translated by Daniel Ladinsky  

Even After 

All this time 

The sun never says to the earth, “You owe 

Me.”  

Look 

What happens 

With a love like that, 

It lights the 

Whole 

Sky.

"why we work"

to make money. to buy books. to read books. to get new ideas. to make new friends after speaking those ideas aloud. to go out to dinner with the friends. to go back to work. to make money.

to my zealous & fiery past

I have so much tension in our relationship

for that reason...

I spent so many years believing Catholics were lost.

And when this boy

That showed me the true meaning of beauty

Takes my hand...

I have to close my eyes

Breathe in

Banish the ghosts of my former beliefs...

And squeeze his hand in return.

Quote of the Day

Gabrielle: ....has anyone told you that you look like jim carrey? because you totally do xD 

Orion: i do? 

Gabrielle: you do. taylor agrees with me. 

Gabrielle: i think it's the cowlick + the absolutely unadulterated :DDDDDDD look that does it xD 

Orion: taylor looks like a british drug dealer from the 70's

Quote of the Day

"Lit theory is the reverse science: it's making the most bombastic claim with as little possible evidence."

~ Dr. Andrews

(credit to julia; it was in her 'quotes' section on fb)

godammit, meteorologists

it's april 3rd and a beautiful 7 AM.............AND IT'S SNOWING BIG, FAT, IT'SAWONDERFULLIFE FLUFFY GODDAMN SNOWFLAKES OUTSIDE.

*shakes fist*

DAMN YOU WEATHERMEN, you get my hopes up too easily.

i had it on good authority it was supposed to be dry & warm this weekend here O__________O

...

in other news, i've made it a goal to listen to my entire iTunes library.  

current observation: godDAMN i LOVE stephen sondheim/relient k/ok go/etc <3

to sherman, love, g-unit

manifest destiny is the 5th grade bully
who calls all the kids who draw with markers
queers

then cries himself to sleep beside his nightlight
because he knows deep down
comeuppance
is coming

(credit goes to ryan for inspiration)

i'm back!

Well. I've actually been back since late Saturday the 28th-ish, but it's taken me this long to get back into the swing of things vis-a-vis keeping up on Twitter, Facebook, LJ, etc. I know that prolly makes me sound shallow, but I don't care - I use those networks as tools. That's all they are. Tools. They're damned pretty tools, and I'd be sad to lose them, but in the end they're nothing without the people behind them. 

*cough* Anyway, I've decided I may not end up making a generally comprehensive post about the road trip - in fact I may never.  But I will try to post pieces of conversations, AIM conversations and conversations over Facebook or LJ especially, about the trip....I prolly won't post any pictures because this blog is the most into-the-darkness of all the sites I'm on - I basically don't know any one of the people who reads this personally. It's simultaneously a good and a scared feeling to have, this feeling of living on the edge, wind in my face, and just not caring one damned bit.

...yes, I know it's pathetic to a certain degree to declare posting on a not-really-anonymous blog 'living on the edge,' but I get so many people telling me over and over again to be cautious in my writing and who I share what with that this feeling of throwing caution to the wind is just so exhilarating and freeing.  

Anyway, in other news - human ingenuity fascinates me o.o

we're gonna dance till the dance floor falls apart - miley cyrus 

no need to hide anything anymore, i'm gonna return to who i was before - anberlin

open the gates and seize the day, don't be afraid and run away - newsies

ROAD TRIP

YAY MY PARENTS ARE LENDING ME MONEY SO I CAN GO ON A ROAD TRIP.

I know how utterly pathetic it is that I am 20 years old and borrowing money from my parents....but I'm unemployed, and broke. Literally broke, not just 'oh boo hoo I'm low on money I can't buy ice cream at the moment' broke like most people mean when they say that. I HAVE NOTHING.  SOMEONE NEEDS TO HIRE ME POSTHASTE.

Anyhoo, I just basically need a vacation from my family, real bad, and taking a cross-state (maybe cross-country since we might visit Canada) road trip over springbreak is just the thing.  It's not quite as cool as last year's spring break in New York, but since that also cost about $3,000 and this should cost about $100 I think I can deal. 

I'll be gone until the 28th, since I probably shan't be taking my laptop since I expect to spend most of my time in other people house's, camping, or on the road.  No internet access in any of the aforementioned.  See y'alls later!

Quote of the Day

Taylor: "So you're allergic to dogs too?"

Gabrielle: "Yeah."

Taylor: "Damn. I kinda wanted a dog...well, the good news is if you have an untimely death, then I can get a dog to keep me company!"

Gabrielle: *glare*

Taylor: "Not...that you're...replaceable by a dog, or...anything..."

Gabrielle: "Just keep digging..."

Quote of the Day

[03:56] Cole: SO MANY DOUBLEYOUS!
[03:56] Cole: ...How do you spell "W"?

omigod i am trapped

I sleep on the couch in my family's living room a lot. I'm not sure why, maybe it's because I know I'm not supposed to sleep on it, but I always sleep better on it than I do in my bed. Craziness. Anyway, I woke up a little bit this morning to hear something about my dad hitting a deer.

I woke up again a few hours later because my dad was home and telling me that my tires were completely bald. I woke up just enough to be interrogated about whether I was going to class that day (I was and I did...bitches...although I have a terrible habit of skipping so it was really a fair question) and then passed out again. 

FINALLY I woke up for reals, to the pleasant news that: my dad was going sixty on the highway this morning and hit a deer, basically totaling his truck. Well, the grill was crunched, the headlights are both dead to rights, and even though with a lot of work they managed to get the grill pulled out enough from the engine that the car ran, it was still fucking up the fan apparently, or some shit like that. But knowing my dad a little thing like coming a hair's breadth from totaling the car won't stop him from jerry-rigging it back together and using it for ANOTHER thirty years or however the hell old it is (that thing is old as the goddamn hils). BUT the other, even better news was that my tires, my beautiful studded tires that were supposed to last through four winters at LEAST, are completely bald. I spent so much time this winter burning rubber on the icy path up to our house and trying to get myself out of other icy situations that I apparently killed my tires. TIRES ARE LIKE FUCKING SIXTY DOLLARS EACH, and I'm already broke. Fuck my life.

This comes on the heels of an ultimatum my mother made last week. It stems from the fact that I have a midnight curfew which is bullshit because I'm 20 and in college, but my parents do not understand this, and because they own me I have to listen. Besides flouting the curfew I also have a bad habit of falling asleep in my boyfriend's bed and...just...not...coming...home. Obviously I have to make up some other excuse for where I was or else my parents would fly into a fundamentalist rage and kill Taylor, but the point remains that my mom finally threatened that if I don't come home again they won't let me drive the car. BULL. SHIT. I can't do anything about it. Right before I lost my job we agreed on what price they wanted for the car and that I could buy it from them, but then I lost my job, and I haven't been able to find a new one since. Hence, they own me. 

Last of all, my friends are going on a road trip over spring break that I was invited on. To go I'd have to borrow like fifty bucks from my parents, which is apparently a BIG FUCKING DEAL because my mom was not pleased when I brought up the subject. I'm peeved because I've been shooting job applications out into the stratosphere like nobody's business, I'm pretty sure I'm getting all A's for this quarter which ends this week, and I DESERVE A REWARD LIKE A ROADTRIP, GODDAMMIT. 

Okay, yes, I know, I don't deserve anything, but I fucking need out of the house and away from my parents before I kill someone, especially now that my car's out of commission for God knows how long. But apparently my mom thinks spring break would be a great time to - you guessed it! - HUNT FOR EVEN MORE JOBS.

Fuck that noise. I need a break.

100 things I have learned

1. Sometimes people just don't like you, and you will never entirely know why.

2. Typos will be made at the most inopportune times.

3. If you tell yourself not to forget something, you will forget it.

4. Raising someone in a particular tradition, religious or otherwise, gives you not one iota of assurance that they will stay in that tradition.

5. In fact, depending how you package it, they may very well run as far from that tradition as they can get.

6. Most of the people who should not be gifted with children, are.

7. Bad days get worse.

8. If you actually like quote-on-quote 'bad' weather, sunny days will stalk you.

9. The world is full of creepers.

10. Quite often, the first impression is the weirdest.

11. No matter how subtly you try to turn your head, people in the cars next to you at stop lights freaking NOTICE if you try to stare at them.

12. I firmly pin the blame for most of the bad decisions made in the world today on a lack of sleep.

13. If you can make it into a sexual innuendo, you should do so posthaste.

14. All those people making fun of D&D over the years were just doing it cause they're jealous they don't know how to roll a natural 20.

15. It doesn't matter how many times someone tells you you're beautiful if you don't actually believe them.

16. Cats have two extremes: they either don't give a fuck or they REALLY give a fuck. And you will rarely be in doubt as to which it is.

17. Dogs are the enablers of the world. You could kill your mother in front of your puppy and it still thinks you are God.

18. Nobody cares about fish, they just make nice conversational pieces.

19. The only thing to survive the nuclear apocalypse will be Twinkies, cockroaches, and HAMSTERS. Those little buggers survive basically whatever you do to them. I should know; I had one as a child.

20. Sadly, most of the poetry written by the current population is...just...crap.

21. Inevitably, a mess will be made.

22. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

23. Most people do not wash their hands after using the bathroom.

24. Kissing someone on a regular basis means resigning yourself to being sick at the same time as that someone, or immediately afterwards.

25. Of course, that also generally means you will have a sympathetic shoulder to cry/puke/bellyache/blow snot on.

25. Hugging is an art.

26. Grass is, deceptively, rarely as dry as it looks.

27. The world is full of insects, and they all want a sip of your soda.

28. If you make a list of what you wish to love in someone, they will inevitably confound your expectations.

29. Life is too short to be passive aggressive.

30. Some people are to politics what bulls are to red shirts. Try not to taunt them too much.

31. Don't pay so much attention to the 'supposed to's' of life.'

32. L'art pour l'art.

33. If a fulfilling life is Rome, many paths lead there...and not all pass through the hallowed halls of higher education.

34. 'Because it's scary,' is not a good reason for not doing something.

35. If someone asks your opinion, give it to them. And don't apologize.

36. We fall so we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

37. Television shows can always be taped. Youtubed. Or simply ignored in the name of living your life on your own timetable.

38. Big purses can hold everything you need. They can also lose everything you need.

39. Color is more interesting outside the lines.

40. Just dance.

41. Don't lie if you can avoid it.

42. Money comes and money goes, but most opportunities are unique.

43. Take more pictures, even if they're blurry and you never show them to anyone else.

44. Write more poems, even if they're stupid and you never show them to anyone else.

45. Travel.

46. Cloudwatch.

47. Take walks in the rain.

48. On their death bed, no one ever wished they had spent less time with their friends.

49. Your mother will NEVER stop worrying.

50. The cake is a lie.

51. There is no spoon.

52. You can never go wrong if you keep nail clippers on hand at all times.

53. Listen to more music.

54. Don't be afraid to create.

55. DON'T censor yourself.

56. It's only as awkward as you make it.

57. Eliminate the ought.

58. Journal.

59. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

60. The sound of silence can be one of the best in the world.

61. Beauty is found in the strangest places.

62. So are friends.

63. Life's too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly, and forgive quickly.

64. Stop and smell the flowers!

65. Take the road less traveled. Even if you don't have a map. ESPECIALLY if you don't have a map.

66. Hastily dismissing people is usually a mistake.

67. Don't burn bridges, you may need to beat a hasty retreat over them at some point.

68. Choose life. Even for spiders.

69. Have some fruit.

70. Tip well.

71. Sing! In the shower! On the sidewalk! To your girlfriend! In your car!

72. Stop and listen to the ocean. Not the one in the shell. The real one.

73. Watch the falling leaves.

74. Read by candlelight.

75. It is impossible to change someone's mind via argument.

76. Sometimes the only thing you can do is walk away.

77. Your best friend WILL find out eventually. Best to just give in and tell them.

78. Your parents are much, much smarter than you give them credit for. Plan accordingly.

79. Drinking water is overrated.

80. If you're going to regret not doing it, do it.

81. Some of the worst decisions make some of the best stories.

82. Public transportation will give you a much more accurate view of the world than cruising alone in your car.

83. Although cruising alone in a car with the stereo cranked up can be very cathartic.

84. Sometimes a good cry makes it all better.

85. If you love them, tell them.

86. Give people flowers.

87. Don't listen to that negative voice inside of you. It's generally wrong.

88. Pay more attention to the details.

89. But don't lose sight of the big picture.

90. Don't be so scared.

91. Love unconditionally.

92. Trust with no reservations (still working on this one).

93. Draw on the sidewalk.

94. Pick up trash, even if it's not yours...maybe even especially if it's not yours. If you don't, who will?

95. How will you know if you like it unless you try it?

96. Cookies.

97. It's fun making other people lose the game...

98. Memorize poems.

99. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

100. Lists are fun.

Quote of the Day

"America? America's culture is shit. It's like God took everything good in the world, mixed it up with a FUCKTON of grease until it was this nasty paste, and then spread it like peanut butter from sea to shining sea." 

~ Jack

Quote of the Day

"Obviously, [AIG execs] ought to be removed. But I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them is if they'd follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I'm sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide."

~ Senator Charles Grassley (Iowa)

FRECKLES

(found on Overheard in New York)

Random guy sitting at bar: I just wanted to let you know that your freckles are truly beautiful.

20-something girl: Uh...thanks. 

Random guy sitting at bar: Ya, a girl without freckles is like a night without stars.

Quote of the Day

"C.S. Lewis is always relevant."
~ Nathan

Quote of the Day

Gabrielle: "HELL YES! NEIL GAIMAN IS GOING ON THE COLBERT REPORT ON MONDAY!"

Cole: "SWEET! NEIL GAIMAN IS HO - I AM HETEROSEXUAL!"

gah

Tell me, is or is this not WAY more creepy than our normal myths?

NOT SO ROMANTIC NOW, IS IT, STEPHENIE MEYER?

Quote of the Day

"Not all serial killers are crazy! Some of them are just sociopaths!"
~ Trevor

meerr

There's an ad on MySpace for some kind of makeup or another, and the before picture is of this girl with freckles all over her face. The after picture has the makeup covering up her freckles so all you see is clear skin.

I LIKE my freckles.

I like freckles on other people.

I find them cute.

I really shouldn't be expecting MySpace to be touting the values of nonconformity, especially with their ads, but still...

Quote of the Day

"I think a lot about things you could screw. Like jello...you could screw that. And you could screw creme puffs and no one would be able to tell!"
~ Nathan

Quote of the Day

"So anyway, what James did was rally all of the the inferior cheap knives and forks and incited riots against the expensive looking fancy silverware dishes, led by the ruthless dread pirate teapot." 

~ Nathan

run away

My little brother is kind of weird. He'll have random outbursts sometimes where he'll express a desire to go out and live in a farmhouse with well water and not have to pay taxes and no electricity, with no one for miles. I don't often agree with him (I like urban sprawl), but sometimes when I'm in certain moods...

I was driving up the highway, just as it morphs into a road in town, and I looked up at the sky, which was this beautiful shade of blue, with gorgeous cloudscapes. And then I noticed, with annoyance, that the view was blocked by traffic lights, and electrical lines, and rooftops. And I suddenly had this desire to drive forever, until there wasn't any road anymore, and when the car ran out of gas I would leave the car, and keep running until I was just one with the sun and the sky and the grass, with none of humanity's stupid trappings, like trying to put a bridle on nature, like trying to put a saddle on the sea.

...really? c'mon now

So there's this girl, Elizabeth, from my school that I'm friends with on Facebook. No boyfriend, she got kinda bitter & bitchy about it around V-Day. No biggie.  

But she did this quiz, and one of the questions was about pet peeves. Her pet peeve is apparently 'people making out.' Again, no biggie. People making out in public can be kind of gross, though I'm more tolerant to it since I acquired a boy toy - I mean boyfriend - of my own.  

But she goes on, "It's just exchanging saliva and germs. GROSS."  

Elizabeth, I'm not sure that this has crossed your mind yet, but when you DO finally get a boyfriend and stop having a bad case of Bitter Single Syndrome, what exactly do you think said boy is going to want to DO with you? Hold hands? Kiss? Make out OH MY GOD YES! YES, ELIZABETH, YOUR BOYFRIEND WILL PROBABLY WANT TO MAKE OUT. WHAT A CONCEPT. OH GOD.  

I know so many of these girls (going to private Christian high school and private Christian college will do that), that simultaneously have a bad case of the prude and also reallyreallyreally want a bf. The two don't mesh very well. Pfffffff.

Quote of the Day

"OH MY GOD, THE ANEMONE MOVED! It was pretty speedy, too. Two inches overnight. It would only take it a few months to get down the hallway and slit my throat in the night. Clearly I must not put off smiting them any longer."
~ Ursula

Quote of the Day

Status: "Gabrielle wants to verb your noun."

Sam: "Is this mad libs? I choose 'pay' and 'bills.'"

Gabrielle: "Divide by zero ERROR"

Sam: "GET YOUR MATH OUT OF MY ENGLISH"

DALEK FOUND IN POND

bahahahaha

(this moment brought to you by neil gaiman's twitter)

Quote of the Day

Brad: *shakes fist* "I cannot be bought with donuts! You know that, right?"

Mary: "You can have me for twenty dollars. All night long."

Quote of the Day

"You're talking about English! DO NOT SPEAK OF ENGLISH IN A HOUSE OF MATH!"
~ Cole

Quote of the Day

"That magnet can handle 25 pounds! You could hang a baby from that!"
~ Spencer