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Friday, 16 May 2008

  • One Art
    by Elizabeth Bishop

    The art of losing isn't hard to master;
    so many things seem filled with the intent
    to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

    Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
    of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
    The art of losing isn't hard to master.

    Then practice losing farther, losing faster
    places, and names, and where it was you meant
    to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

    I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
    next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
    The art of losing isn't hard to master.

    I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
    some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
    I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

    --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
    I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
    the art of losing's not too hard to master
    though it may look like (Write It!) like disaster.


Thursday, 24 April 2008

  • so, i just begin 'cleanup 08' of my bedroom. i need to go through all of my stuff, and get rid of alotttt, and start packing things away. i am moving to another apartment, but only for about 2 1/2 months, so i really don't want to take alot with me there. i want to have mostly everything packed away for the new hampshire move.

    but anyway, so i'm going through all my stuff... cleaning out drawers etc. and i find this stack of floppy discs, and a floppy disc drive. why on earth did i bring that with me to chicago, in 2005? who needs floppy discs in 2005? i don't think i actually bought a flash memory thing til i came to chicago and i realized oh, they don't even make computers with floppy disc drives anymore. what the hell.

    so, there is only one disc that i have that actually has things saved on it, and it is from 11 years ago. yes that's right. 11 years ago i saved a paper called "Typhoons" and then in 1998 i saved "Titanic," "Blizzard of '78," "Snefru," and "college project." And then there is randomly something from 2003.

    so i decided to plug in my floppy disc drive and see if i could read my old papers. no such luck. it keeps saying the disc is not formatted and 'would you like to format now?' and i think if i remember correctly, formatting it will erase everything on it right?

    i really wanted to read my old papers and see how bad/hilarious they were. haha.

    who the heck owns floppy discs in 2008? yeah, i do. but do i just throw them away? i feel like theyre some sort of treasure that my kids will get a kick out of. but this is my problem. i save everything. clearly.

    i am trying to learn how to throw things away because i have alot of stuff. i am trying to minimize. so a) moving will be easier and b) i don't have to carry around floppy discs with me for the rest of my life.

    on another note, i love the smell of rain in the springtime.

    summer is going to be good. well, i don't quite have a job figured out for july and the two weeks of august that i'll be here. hmmm. hopefully i'll find some waitressing thing in lincoln square. that would be fun-ish.

    alright back to cleaning. i just had to share my floppy disc story.

Saturday, 12 April 2008

  • what the f.

    i just saw an ad, on the xanga home page, for some acne product and it says "popularity starts with beautiful skin. what are you waiting for?"

    seriously? that pisses me off. just another ad to say you're not good enough.

    judy howard peterson is amazing. i love her. we were talking the other day about living a 'weller' life. not a better life, because the word better implies some sort of perfectionism. so she made up the word 'weller,' which is not about being more perfect but about being more whole. i want to live a weller life. i want to be wholer. so i made a list of what a weller life would be for me. including, but not limited to: -walking and/or riding my bike more when things aren't really all that far. i think living in the city screws up our perception of distance. we think something that is 3 miles away is so far because it takes a long time in the car because of city traffic and lights every 5 feet. why don't i just ride my bike those 3 miles? -thinking about things that i put in my body. staying away from processed and greasy junk food. eating fresh. maybe having a garden and growing my own veggies.

    ok i don't have time to finish this list. but, i am in pursuit of a weller life and thought i'd share.

    have a glorious weekend despite the crappy weather.

Thursday, 10 April 2008

Thursday, 27 March 2008

  • i love the smell of spring. it smells of spring outside, and it is absolutely delicious.

    i complain about living on campus still, but one thing i love is random run ins with people i don't see enough of. today was one of those days.

    i ran into three wonderful people: matthew enquist, mari andrew, and andrew freeman. it was good good good. i am thankful for running into friends and forgetting about my normal state of being pissed off by all the freshmen running around throwing frisbees and such.


    today i am very happy. happy for the inevitability of spring, happy because as of monday i will only be at the OG two days a week and that will be good for the soul, and i'll have a real life adult job doing something i love. happy because i am young and single and excited to live my life and figure myself out and go to new hampshire and be alone and hike mountains and ride my bike and live on a lake.

    i really love the arcade fire.

    i like it when friends visit me at work. it makes me happy.


    i like it when babies are the smiliest in the world and say hi to you a million times. there was a little girl at one of my tables like that tonight. so cute. i wish my sister would hurry up and have children so i can be an aunt and spoil the crap out of my nieces or nephews. i can't wait for that.


    i need to go to sleep. i've been staying up too late again .


    goodnight moon.



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