November 2010
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cool story bro
Me: lame
Sister: wow
Sister: super lame
Sister: sorry man
Me: haha
Me: it's cool bro
October 2010
fair trade chocolate →
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Just realized I walked over 5 miles today. Also realized that the time I walked to the Strand with A, we actually trekked something close to over 7 miles, not 6.
BAMF.
Also why it is essential that I have comfy shoes here.
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Happy Halloween!
I’ve decided that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. It’s fun to dress up & be silly and watch other people get really into the spirit of things.
Friday: last minute visit to Drapers. Drinks, dancing, costumes, the New Globe, sharing chips & a kebab before calling it a night. Saturday: early morning texts, crosswords on the coach, laughing at nothing, Roman Baths,...
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Français
kailinhu:
Je voudrais apprendre le français à nouveau. Et je voudrais rencontrer un ami français.
Si vous voulez un ami français, vous devez vous rendre à la France! Je veux apprendre le français à nouveau aussi, donc je prends (?) français 2 au prochain semestre
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“She had been alone with her parents when Jack left, and a symmetry in that that...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Home
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questions to ponder over
Why didn’t I keep running? Why didn’t I go to swim practice? Why didn’t I get started on my assignments? Why did I eat all that food at 1 in the morning? Why am I awake?
Answer - BECAUSE I FELT LIKE IT.
No seriously though, I’m going to regret all of this. Bath & Lacock tomorrow! Gotta be up in about five hours, whaaaat?
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“But the unchartered scale of this East London park, without tourists or...”
– Iain Sinclair, Hackney, That Rose Red Empire
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content
Woke up super tired (curse you, inconsiderate flatmates!) but I had a hearty breakfast of whole wheat toast, pb & a banana with a cup of tea. Yawned through lecture, yawned through seminar, but made it a point to try and say some interesting stuff. (I’m such a better student here.)
Went to the library & printed out some forms for work, dropped off my CRB at the Queen’s...
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sometimes…I just want to smack some of my flatmates upside the face, tell them to smoke their shit outside, and to shut the fuck up when it’s past 3 in the morning.
if only.
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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In...”
– Henri Bergson, Mame mo memelay (Matter and Memory) via Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“Walking the perimeter, the dead are always with us, interrupting our meditation,...”
– Iain Sinclair, Hackney, That Rose Red Empire
It’s strange because it’s as if my thoughts have run off by themselves, and I’m left here struggling to reign them back in. And when I am alone, I can feel the resentment growing - burning, threatening to choke me with its anger.
And as much as I try to suppress the thoughts; as much as I’d like to pretend this isn’t truly how I feel…I know I’m right....
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KZHANG & JKCHONG
I’d just like to say thank you again and again for the moleskine, because that thing has saved my life. From tube maps, and street maps - it’s helped me figure out how to get to my orientation, and how to navigate the streets of central. I’ve written down notes for classes, quotes from books, and random thoughts that strike my fancy. I’ve put down addresses and how to...
poetry in flames curling tendrils that fade away to ash and shadows that whisper sweet nothings in your ear
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“I was too fond of flaws, eccentricity. Characters who subverted any role...”
– Iain Sinclair, Hackey, That Rose Red Empire
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“I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’ ‘Do you think one can feel too much?...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
debating
a tattoo. or two. or a new piercing.
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“The window is my heart’s window, the door my souls door. I lie there awake...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
ants facing a water droplet
visible to only a few, easier for those farther away from the center
its only when you get caught up that you are forced to realize the truth of the matter, and by then it is too late. you are trapped, pulled, tumbled about, drowning in the reality of it all
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weekend
(Rather boring, but it’s so that I can remember.)
Thursday, 21 October: Brick Lane curry night with W’s flat. Got a pretty good deal, and some delicious food. Free wine, but I chose to drink orange juice instead. We stopped by Tesco’s on the way back & bought lots of unhealthy snacks and a chocolate cheesecake to split amongst ourselves. Stayed up late just talking and...
because skin is not natural. i am trapped in my skin, by the color, how it shapes me. it is the one thing i can think of which grows darker in the sun. for what else grows darker in the light? i grow darker in the light. i am stuck, i am trapped, yes i am trapped in my own skin.
i want to crawl out of my own body, unzip the folds of my flesh and come crawling, bloody, crawling - nothing but...
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“Sorry, I have this cough that’s moved to my chest, and now I sound like...”
– Seminar Leader, Fiction & Narrative
fiction & narrative
I’m that girl who:
came late to class pulled out a netbook & is furiously pounding away the keys started playing free cell went on facebook pulled out a snickers bar started eating said snickers bar went on tumblr
TERRIBLE STUDENT.
I KNOW, I KNOW.
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“Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy!”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
WatchIn case anyone is worried that I’m not getting enough exercise… Here’s a video of what I tend to do in my free time.
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“Excuses scare me, Glory. They make me feel like I’m losing hold. I...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Home
DON'T WANT
to read all of Great Expectations and Nostromo tonight.
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How long does it take tumblr to process a 5 second video? How long!?
I wish I never had to sleep. I wish I could watch the sun rise and set and dance with the moon. I wish for so many things.
