Thursday, April 28, 2011

A Lesson to All Men and a True Story

"Moreover I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. To have issues with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into the person I love. I am a permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time-everything. If I love you, i will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts(in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else.
I do not relay these facts about myself with pride, but this is how it's always been."

-Eat, Pray, Love by E. Gilbert, page 65, paragraph 3, bead 22

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Take a hint...

Why on earth did I want a science degree in the first place?!
I guess you don't always see things clearly when you are in the situation, as you do when you are watching the car crash.
(and NO that is not a reference to Jersey Shore!!!)
My friend pointed out some very intriguing personal facts last week.
All of which pertained to my degree selection...
1. I am awful at math...
2. I can't remember a thing from high school science
3. I day dream way too much
4. I read all the time
5. I look up words in the dictionary for kicks
6. I enjoy peer edit, thoroughly
7. I keep a daily journal
8. If all of my classes were english related I would have a  4.0 gpa...
9. I love people
10. I love to talk
11. I was a teacher's assistant to all of my english teachers in high school...



Fuck It...I am changing my major.
I will fight until MLA is my second language and speech is considered "me time"....

Friday, April 22, 2011

Cute

My boss gave me a fifty cent raise for one paycheck...then revoked it the next.
Did I do something wrong? No I earned it.
"Pay cuts", she explained.
So she cut my raise.
Cute while it lasted...?

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

J. Dahlen...

My creative writing teacher is going to Seattle, Washington...my home.
I am more than jealous, everytime I go there I fall in love.
I hope she sees past the clusters of criminally insane drivers/tourists and instead absorbs the old city for what it is.
A community. A melting pot of every person and every belief and every destination.
I hope she sees the mist over the Puget Sound at sunset off of a ferry boat.
I hope she puts a wad of gum under Pike Place Market.
I hope she eats a lavender delight at Cupcake Royal.
I hope she too falls in love.