December 2010
12 posts
my wish for you.
I hope that one day you realize that you could throw away all of your things and still be you.
I hope that one day you realize that you’re worth loving.
I hope that one day you have a Christmas where there are no presents under the tree—because those are the best Christmas’s of all.
I hope somebody out there is ready to tell you to grow up. Some of us figure it out on our...
and done.
finished my last exam today.
i was given many congratulations and even a hug from a woman i barely know. but there was no moment, no sigh of relief, no giant weight off my shoulders.
i don’t think i’ll recognize my relief until i move home and don’t return to school on january. it will be so weird.
but anyway, i’m all done.
i never have to write another stupid paper,...
unexpected intrusions of beauty. that’s what life is.
-saul bellow
almost the end.
in a little over twelve hours i will be done with my undergraduate career.
and i’m getting butterflies about it—is this it? this is my life? here it comes? i can’t keep putting it off with an education, can i? weekends spent sleeping and drinking and eating junk food. weeks spent in a fury, turning in assignments i should’ve done on the weekend (would’ve done on the...
ppppppp
so tired.
so so so tired.
that is all.
things i have to tell myself
after a terrible day, like today, i often google inspirational quotes that are usually cliche. but they make me feel better. so i’m going to put them all in one place now. dear tumblr, welcome to my self-soothing obsession.
“you may write me down in history/with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt/but still, like dust, i’ll rise.” -maya angelou
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Catch-Up
Day 08 – Most overrated book
“The girl with the…” books. I keep hearing they’re amazing but I can’t get into them at all.
Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
“Into the Wild” and “Into Thin Air.” Also “The Kite Runner.”
Day 10 – Favorite classic book
I love Shakey and Chaucer.
Day 11 – A book you...