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I can't stop watching Derren Brown videos on YouTube. Hello, new role model.
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[17 Oct 2010|06:33pm] |
whoa whoa WHOA.
i am in love with pittsburgh. there's always something to be doing or watching or being a part of. and grad school chews me up and spits me out every single day, but i love it too.
the biggest change: people carry umbrellas here, and they're not embarrassed about it.
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[21 Aug 2010|06:38am] |
I moved to Pittsburgh! I am stealing the Internet in 8 second bursts! I am the only white person in my entire neighborhood!
Somebody told me that if you think as your life as great, it will be great, so that's what I'm doing. But the loneliness is palpable, to quote a TV show I don't want to admit that I watch.
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[09 Aug 2010|07:43pm] |
I'm moving out of Bellingham in 2 days! Going to miss this city like crazy, though. I've never loved a place so much before. I have all my favorite spots around town, like little hiding places only I know about.
I'm listing all of my things on Craigslist under the "Free" section, because I want to get rid of this stuff FAST, and also because I like thinking about all my possessions spread out over this city. My cute Ikea lamp is now in a college guy's apartment on Myrtle, and the TV stand that we used for Jesse's TV and Caitlin's dead bee is now in the living room of a middle-aged man downtown. I gave my emergency ladder to a sweet girl who is moving into a sketchy apartment of her own off the Lettered Streets.
It's not so bad starting over.
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[12 Jun 2010|11:10pm] |
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what a great day. i love my family.
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[14 Jan 2010|11:09pm] |
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god, i hate january. least favorite month of the year, every year, without fail.
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[29 Nov 2009|09:27pm] |
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i think I've narrowed down my grad school choices. i should have done this weeks ago. if everything works out--then: bye, washington. you've been lovely.
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[09 Nov 2009|09:46pm] |
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i feel like a robot lately. and i've been playing tetris a lot. it's calming in a way.
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[20 Oct 2009|12:32am] |
went to the best concert i've been to in a long time tonight. ben folds.
everything is busy but it's nice. i am making plans!
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[22 Sep 2009|03:47pm] |
when we were kids, my sister and i would always talk about all the stuff we would do if we were the last people on earth. you know, things like eating candy bars in the checkout line of the grocery store, and walking through the front door of the beautiful gated house two blocks over, fierce and unafraid. but then i started having nightmares about being the last person left. i think it was the loneliness, more than anything.
there are these big bugs that keep showing up in my bedroom, one at a time, hovering around my lamps and careening into the wall. i open up the window to shoo each one out, but they seem confused by the cool air and turn around immediately. they die in the corners of my room. there is a carpet of exoskeletons by my bed and i always think of my last-person-on-earth nightmares when i sweep them into the trash.
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[03 Sep 2009|08:33pm] |
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I am all moved in to my new apartment, which I love love love. I like the way my key sounds when I unlock the front door. I think that's all that's important, really.
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[29 Aug 2009|06:32pm] |
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i've been having deja vu all day.
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[11 Aug 2009|10:15pm] |
i went to new york and got into late night with jimmy fallon. there were other things, too but i wasn't on tv for them.
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[30 Jul 2009|11:25pm] |
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pandora is only playing beirut and devotchka... grrrr.
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[28 Jun 2009|04:56pm] |
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I just spent two hours researching Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen by proxy, and Munchausen by Internet. I have an essay due tomorrow that has absolutely nothing to do with Munchausen syndrome.
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[30 May 2009|10:30am] |
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everything seems a little better in the morning. i am covered in mosquito bites, though.
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| sorry for all the red herrings |
[29 May 2009|10:31pm] |
i had a nice day, up until half an hour ago.
cutter got the sims 3 a week early! i skipped three classes today to hang around at his apartment and play it. and then i came back to campus, declared my audiology minor, picked up scholarship forms, and spent the afternoon/evening hanging out with sarah and eventually everyone else in the park down the street. i'm in this weird place right now and i think sarah can really identify with it. i like how independent she is; it's what i'm going for, too. people are great...but my life is mine to live.
i don't remember if i wrote this here or not, but i almost took myself to portland about two months ago. just me. i looked up train times and i wrote down the address and number of a hostel and places i wanted to go. i was so close to leaving without telling anybody but then life happened, of course, and i didn't go. i will, someday.
i'm so bad at establishing any sort of direction for these entries, but it's livejournal. nobody cares. i wanted to say that i was cutting onions the other day and i started crying--from the onions--and i remembered how good it feels to just cry and so i thought about all the things that had broken my heart and i cried some more, and then i thought about all the things that make me whole again and i was still crying in the kitchen, even after the onion had been dumped unceremoniously in the trash.
most of all, i'm so tired of the familiar. i'm tired of waking up in this house, i'm tired of sitting next to the same girl every morning in my 8 AM language disorders class, i'm tired of looking in the mirror and i'm tired of everyone pretending to know all the answers. i think you make your own adventures in life, so the rest is up to me.
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[25 May 2009|07:23pm] |
I spent the weekend with the boy I'm dating. I had a really nice time...
In the last 24 hours, I've eaten four popsicles and nothing else. And I accidentally flashed all of James Street on my way home. And my hair is totally "Jewing out" today to use somebody else's words. But in spite of everything, or maybe because of everything, I love this time of year when everybody is excited about all of the things that haven't happened yet and the air is almost weighted down with possibilites and everybody is going somewhere important.
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[18 May 2009|04:57pm] |
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i failed a test today. and i got a free vanilla latte, so i guess it evens out.
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[29 Apr 2009|10:05pm] |
I am seeing THE SHINS on campus this Saturday. I'm looking forward to it.
Today, everybody had something to say about my tights. Tim, my professor, this girl in my study group, the bus driver, old ladies, Sarah, guys, everybody. And then--fittingly--I accidentally ripped them.
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