For creative writing class, we have to go to two poetry/fiction readings. Being myself, I waited until now to do this. Last night, there were two poetry readings, one at the University held by the creative writing department, the other a youth reading at a coffee shop a block away. The one at the university [...]
Thanks to Naiv. Super, I’ve come to appreciate lists. I’ve never been a big list writer, at least in the traditional sense. I mean, I’ve always liked to write them. My trouble is in the following through. Take to-do lists for example. I’ve written about a bazillion to-do lists. At [...]
Last Sunday, Janelle and I were stressing out doing our taxes while Greg and Adam were out rummage sale-ing. They came in smiling and Janelle and I smiled and then went back to stressing. And then we finished and were happy because we get money and they both gave us a strip of photos and [...]
my friends are great.
10 Things I did Today:
1. My darks. Finally. I’ve been putting off laundry for a week.
2. Bike back and forth from campus three times (amounting to about 2 hours of biking)
3. Treat myself to a bag of peanut butter M&Ms for all the biking
4. See a man doing Tai Chi [...]
It’s cold after those 80 degree days…
…but really…
…there are worse things than snowy days.
På norsk time we are reading a book called Naiv. Super. by Erlend Loe. It’s a very popular book in Norway, especially with teens. I am enjoying it thoroughly, laughing a lot, enjoying its sjarm.
In a wee section of this book, the main character tells a story about his grandfather. When the [...]
Adam and I stopped at this photobooth in East Town Mall. We were there to get some juice. Adam was trying to lick my face in the third frame. I was trying desperately to keep his tongue off my cheek. Typical. I love that about him, the craziness, the playfulness. [...]
today i smoked my pipe outside after class
under the tree. It was grey and my fingers
wrapped around the warm wooden
bowl. It was round and soft
like a hand. I feel
the tobacco in my body now.
when it’s cloudy and I am alone I love
the taste of its humble poison
in my veins and on my [...]
Last night was the first day of a writing workshop. We didn’t do much writing. We talked a bit about how we wanted the workshop to go and talked a lot about everything else. But I loved it. And I love that I’m in a writing workshop that will force me [...]