April 2010
2 posts
i'd be lying if i said today wasn't shitty
“well you can stare all day at the sky, but that won’t bring her back.” - tori amos, bouncing off clouds
give me credit: two posts in a row
i like lists. lists give things order, purpose. lists make sense of things that otherwise, don’t belong together. here is my list for the day, of all the things that sucked:
1. i woke up sick, i.e. fever and sore throat
2. i had...
god i am the worst journaler ever
“i just don’t wanna, so i’m walking away.” - sia, the girl you lost to cocaine
ALRIGHT. I surrender. I will proudly wear the title of worst journal keeper ever. To make up for it, I will do the year in review as i used to. I know I know, it doesn’t make my negligence okay, but think of it as a step in the right direction.
aPRIL 2009. - the first of four months...
November 2009
3 posts
breaking up your sleep into one hour intervals...
“i know you feel it too, these words get overused when we get up and over it and over them.” - tegan and sara, hell
i am back from london. it was amazing. i learned a lot of things:
1. bus 31 doesn’t run properly on saturday nights and if it’s raining, you will get wet and your feet will freeze waiting for it. 2. its easy to find boyfriends in london, i.e. kerpal and...
words that should be part of an essay, not a...
“can’t you see what you do to me? you fill my heart with misery.” - the ramones, can’t seem to make you mine
literally every boy that i have ever almost dated has been involved in my life in one way or another today. i haven’t felt this inadequate in a while. thanks, boys.
on another note, i love the new tegan and sara album. they really know how to tug at my...
this is a post based entirely on guilt
from now on i’m going to begin with a song of the day. i believe songs say things that my words never could, so here’s to saying something:
“and we’ll no longer memorize or rhyme, too far along in our climb, stepping over what now towers to the sky…” -the shins, phantom limb
before you even say it, i know, i know. i haven’t written in two months. ...
September 2009
1 post
packing blows
two days to go. this week has been insane. in the last 3 days…
1. i bought both a raincoat and a warm winter coat, the latter of which does not fit into my suitcase and will, at some point, need to be shipped to me.
2. i had two pairs of jeans hemmed.
3. i picked up new mascara and treated myself to an eyeliner.
4. i managed to track down UK and Continental Europe power converters (i...
August 2009
2 posts
one down, six to go
today i did absolutely nothing that is in any way dublin related. i just thought you would like to know. today was a waste of a day, dublin-wise.
xx n
one week and counting
so here it is, folks, the very beginnings of my blog that will chronicle my journey to dublin and, eventually, back. not much to report tonight, except that there is officially one week left until i depart for ireland and i must confess that i am not even close to being ready. there is still so much to do…
i still don’t have a warm winter coat, so i need to buy one. i knitted...