the bitter season

OH SWEET, SWEET INTERNET, HOW I HAVE MISSED YOU.

Haha in other news. Uh. Was in Bend until just about an hour ago. Also, I've been deathly ill for three days, and am considering just missing this whole stupid week altogether.

Really quickly, that caringsharing meme:

Day four: a site (JDATE blog)
Day five: a youtube clip (bubble popping)


I know I should do the other two, but I can't find a good quote, so I'll do it tomorrow. Or something.

Sharing is Caring: for one week, recommend/share:
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
(Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy)

Oh man, I knew I'd forget a day. So I'm reccing you all The Brothers Karamazov. I've tried quite a few times to write a good, concise review of it, but seeing as I'm apparently incapable, you all just get the title. Dostoevsky does exhibit a lot of the length and verbosity that is so very characteristic of Russians of his day, but it's worth powering through for the things he says about religion and socialism and the (sometimes ridiculously) in-depth sidestories. Some great little allegories, too, and philosophy, and... yeah, if you're into Meg Cabot, you'll hate this. But uh, if the converse is true, you should get a kick out of it.

More of this meme:

Sharing is Caring: for one week, recommend/share:
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
(Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy)

The best part is that slapping it on your desktop actually motivates you to work. Super sweet.

So I went and had coffee at the Stumptown on 3rd, and while Mo and I were sitting there talking, they started playing Neutral Milk Hotel's Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 1. I may have kind of flipped a bitch. It um, the happy way! Because I really thought I was the only person in the world who knew of/liked them! And then they went on and played the whole album (In The Aeroplane Over The Sea). So in honor of that and to open this meme, I give you Communist Daughter.

➝ 'This meme':
Sharing is Caring: for one week, recommend/share:
Day one: a song
(Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy)

Yeah so cross-country skiing sucks balls but my weekend was pretty chill anyway. Did my essay on that John Handey quote, and found another one that made me happy:
Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Did any of y'all see the State of the Union? Good stuff right there.

Unrelated but important: need a quote for a scholarship essay that 'holds special meaning for me'. Don't exactly keep these things on hand. Help me out, kids?

EDIT: Okay, I think I've got one. How's this sound:
"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what? They never find him. And you know why they never find him? It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." (Jack Handey)

Just finished my over-the-phone interview with Willamette. The guy essentially told me that if I do well on my grades (read: finals) this semester, I'll likely get in. So uh, no pressure.

Breakfast: Star Trek cereal (yes, it exists, and yes, it is delicious - basically Lucky Charms with different marshmallow shapes)
Lunch: couple of Sour Patch kids
Dinner: massive piece of fantastic chocolate cake
Beverages throughout the day: coffee, Bawls, half of an orange soda
Also eaten, around 12:30: a few bites of sandwich. But not enough to count.

I MAY START BLEEDING FROM THE EYES VERY SOON.

Finished SH3 (really, really good); watched Left Bank (rather good, but by no stretch a horror film); bought new shoes (cute white boots, comfy red and white sneakers). Shot my photography final (Privilege and Poverty in Portland - not originally meant to be alliteration). Got a coffeetable for the living room for $12. Life is good & life is easy.

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Reply to this post and I will tell you just how much I love and adore you, and why!
If you want, pass this on in your own journal!

Oh and this. Help me out, BHS homies?

I JUST ATE SOME FUCKING CHICKEN FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK IT WAS SO FUCKING GOOD OH MY GOD

FUCK YOU I DON'T FEEL BAD ABOUT IT, I HAVEN'T HAD CHICKEN IN OVER A YEAR

also champagne, that may have helped.

Ahahaha porridge!Zuko. It's a butterfly.

So really late Christmas/miscellany update, if anyone cares.

( Loot: )

LUCKY TO BE BORN.

MY MOM JUST BOUGHT ME THIS COAT, ASD;FLKSDFK.

HORRIBLE ZOMBIE NIGHTMARES ASD;LKFD

also: The Princess and the Frog asdf;lkj yes.

And I'm going to watch Triumph of the Will now. And Aimee and Jaguar. After I finish Crime and Punishment. Oh I am just so grown up.

I dreamed Evans gave me a 28 on my in-class essay. D:

Anyone want to get together over break? And by that I mean 'let's set some dates, people.' Don't make me text you. :\

For those who have been wondering.
( What I've been up to the past few days: )

That puts us up to the present.
I had thought I was fine and over it and whatever, but I'm not sure anymore. Nonetheless, I will be back at school Wednesday and Thursday: I may be out Friday, because there is debate over whether to have the funeral then or on Saturday. I will be capable of attending the GLSEN social tomorrow and leading GSA the day after that.

I was about to post this wishing someone would say something comforting, about what a good friend I am or how sorry they are, but these are lies we tell each other when it is presumed necessary, and I don't want to oblige anyone or go on with this self-serving, self-pitying bullshit.

I am fine. I am always fine. I will continue to be fine. Good day.