February 2012
2 posts
Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
January 2012
2 posts
goodbye to a great year; 2012 will be no less. good luck with life, everyone!
December 2011
4 posts
what have i been doing at 4AM for the past week? college apps!
you see, i can’t seem to find inspiration or motivation at any other time of day. i sit at my desk, in bed, on the floor for hours at a time and accomplish literally nothing. i make starbucks runs for that caffeine rush, but my efforts are hopelessly futile. but then when it’s 3AM and my eyelids start drooping, after...
November 2011
4 posts
Today my life begins: Someone in Harker just... →
jennifer-choi:
He was a senior with the perfect grades and the best internship at Intel. Think about it, perfect grades at Harker!?! Imagine all the possibilities this kid had in front of him! But he just threw it all down the drain.
Ok, I understand that this kid may have been depressed and sad and what not,…
tragic ignorance
awesome weekend
October 2011
7 posts
having a 2-hour-long (and counting) conversation with a 50ish mandarin-speaking jewish businessman at starbucks. everything from neuroscience to galaxy m87 to real estate to chinese women..
interesting but time to get the hell out.
“Chance encounters are what keep us going.”
– Haruki Murakami
this was my backup senior quote. never a truer statement.
keep your chins up, seniors! there’s a lot more to look forward to than getting into college.
things aren’t so bad.
why do i feel so panicky all the time now? about routine, ordinary things too, like school..
sometimes i can’t breathe
September 2011
17 posts
guess what--we're in space!
interviewed NASA astronaut dr. gregory e. chamitoff today! so cool.
“you feel like you’re superman when you’re in space”
“you feel like a very special part of the earth, to see it from that perspective”
“edge of reality”
“infinite unknown”
Terra Naomi - Flesh for Bones
Missed Hints
dearoldlove:
I’m still kicking myself for not picking up on those hints.
bbbarf:
I like sleeping because it’s like being dead without the commitment
4 tags
national merit essay panic mode!
in other news, the national is coming to sf in december..
hannahisanguyener:
Going Away to College - Blink...
WELL THIS IS RIDICULOUSLY DEPRESSING..
ambedo
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.
as;ldfk
just got really into reading about my internship thing and scoured all corners of the interwebs for canaloplasty studies and did more research in the past four hours than i ever have for any school assignment. :( poop why didn’t i get more into this over the summer when i had time to spare? this is like a fun research paper, i’m confused! also it’s wednesday night 4 am.?? what am...
August 2011
20 posts
i feel cardigan season approaching!
20 tags
Wise Girls Don't Fall in Love With Seasons.
daydreamsonlooseleafpaper:
She closed her eyes as the sun ran it’s fingertips along her bare and freckled skin. The warmth of each ray kissed her, hypnotizing her to stay a little longer between the sand and the waves that destroyed themselves to reached out to touch her as well. But autumn warned her when he blew in the wind; everyone knows the summer loves heartbreaks.
conor oberst is too brilliant.
waiting for inspiration
Lana Del Rey - Diet Mtn. Dew
2 tags
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree-...”
– Lewis Carroll
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via zeitgeistmovement)
playing lots of late-night catchup these days—it’s strange how people grow apart.