Miscellania

"Be a river with me; 
Be the storm; 
the bend in the path; 
the front porch; the heat in the south; 
be a boot full of banjo strings; 
a fist full of written songs; a mouthfull of chocolate dust.
 When they come to take us,
 stab them between the eyes.
 Do not take your hand from around mine. -Anis Mojgani

Tonight I'm staying in to finally cross some items off of the to do list I made at the start of this week. I really want to order pizza but it feels a bit cruel in this awful (awesome) weather. Anyway, now I'm listening to Saves the Day albums hahah ok ok ok sorry Clean room/ Remove broken parts of desk and rescue my precious belongings from the pile of debris that resulted when I broke my desk. Oops. Clean D's room/Bathroom French Paper, Algebra Project, Religion Articles, English Paper, etc. Wrap Derek's birthday present/Make card Today I've been thinking a lot about how I can change up my room and really simplify. I guess not having a desk is simple...Here is a list of things I want/ want to do for my room: Gray (or white?) curtains like these . A bulletin board/cork board This A new jewelry case/organizer. Not really sure what I'm specifically looking for here though. OK, off to try and complete some tasks!

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. -charles bukowski

Esperanza Spalding is the Joanna Newsom of jazz music.

These are a few things that happened within ten minutes: -"Is this a case of a dinosaur trying to get street cred?" (One news caster to another.) -"This guy is either dying of AIDs or addicted to crack." (My mom. She is usually much more pleasant than this..) -A guy orbiting earth on a green screen -"The beauty of a circle." -My mom Think I'll stick with CNN...

In general, people either think I am exotic/gorgeous, but more likely they think I a,

Despite my swelling anticipation for the Puppy Bowl (VII) and I guess for all the food that comes with the actual superbowl later on, I have a lot on my mind. I have been seeing Ayn Rand's name everywhere this week. I just don't understand how people not only think she's not full of shit, but also agree with the shit she's full of. My brother Alex and I once checked out her wikipedia to see what she was really all about. On the wikipedia page for her book Atlas Shrugged, it says, "The book explores a dystopian Unites States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by society." How does that make any sense? If it is a dystopia, they would be exploited by society... Upon further research of her philosophy, I have come to the conclusion that she was not only completely clueless, but completely selfish as well. I apologize for the rant, especially if any of you numbskulls like this wet fart's writing. To those ...