January 2011
45 posts
New books
A Nation in Crisis - The Meltdown of Money, Government, and Religion by Larry and Chuck Bates
Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell
How to Develop a Super Power Memory by Harry Lorayne
Coming soon…
Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Running With Scissors, Dry, and A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
How to Win Friends &...
“People don’t want to be managed. They want to be lead. Who ever heard of a...”
– From John C. Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You, 1993, originally from Richard Kerr for United Technologies Corp. Bits and Pieces, 1990.
December 2010
52 posts
It's never too late until you're dead.
Come sail away with me
I don’t know when (during the three weeks we were hanging out) you decided that I loved you. I also don’t know how, when I was telling you I was done with you, you got the impression that I wanted to be with you. I’m also not sure why, as I was telling you I was happy with what happened, you heard me tell you that you broke my heart. I don’t know what it is about the way I...
Dad: Why is the bottom of your foot black?!
Me: It's green.
Dad: Oh... Why is the bottom of your foot green?!
Me: I painted it.
Dad: ...
Me: Any other questions?
Dad: Nope.
I don’t ever expect to be beautiful because of it. I want someone to think I’m beautiful despite it.
I think I can do this?
I have no idea why I found this so funny.
“A certain organization, whose membership consisted of gag-writers only, was having its annual dinner at a swank hotel in New York City. One of the membership rules of the organization was that the members would never actually tell a joke or a gag to each other. They had memorized all the standard gags by numbers, and instead of telling the joke, they would save time by simply calling the...
Apparently I still get credit for a class at my college if I get a D. Too bad the university won’t see it that way.
She keeps diaries of secrets and mouthfuls of lies. She hods tricks up her sleeves and secrets in her eyes.
PEOPLES MOVEMENT: How Unequal Are We? →
peoplesmovement:
Inequality Index
· Percentage of U.S. total income in 1976 that went to the top 1% of American households: 8.9. · Percentage in 2007: 23.5. · Only other year since 1913 that the top 1 percent’s share was that high: 1928. · Combined net worth of the Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans…
How to be a douche bag (2)
Text me daily, at the least, without fail
When I don’t respond, try harder
When I still don’t respond, start calling
When I don’t answer, call me from a restricted number
Hang up when I answer
Call me out on it
When I tell you to leave me alone, threaten to stop calling me
shut up. please please just shut up.
Don't you fake it
I never could believe in a God that doesn't...
Fact.
Tonight, if you’re a Kuna indian, you’re not allowed outside. The only members of your society allowed outside are the albinos, who will use specially made bows and arrows to attempt to kill the dragon that has come to eat the moon.
Sometimes I feel like time is going backwards.
no.
I am in love with books
i'm afraid
this isn’t just a little phase
this won’t ever change
this won’t ever just be a memory (because)
this isn’t just in my head (or because)
this is just in my head
this is how i’ll spend my life
i’ll have to live this way
i’ll have to die this way
change majors.
this is the third one.
considering getting both,
just so that i don’t feel like i gave up on my dreams or my future.
let’s be honest,
i can’t have a solid future and follow my dreams
i can’t follow my dreams and have a solid future
it might actually work.
degree requirements for one fill elective requirements for the other.
lower division requirements from the two...
what if we just ceased to exist?
If I write it, it feels like it's only a story.
It was the middle of July and there were Christmas lights strung around the entire room. I stood with my back to his in the center of a tattered green area rug. His thirty-year-old roommate kept insisting we stand still, but we were laughing so hard it was difficult to stand up straight and breathe at the same time. Everyone stood around us, waiting for the final verdict. We were, it was...
Today was intense.
I’ve either finally hit my breaking point and I’ve gone crazy, or I’m getting better at dealing with stress. Either way, I’m in a wonderful mood.
I don’t ask for help very often. I don’t admit I need help very often. The one time I do, I get completely shut down.
Lesson learned.
I can tell you right now this is not going to go the way I see it going in my mind.
Uh.
I have a lot of optimism. I have a lot of good in me. I have a lot of hope. However, for every positive idea in my mind, there is a negative one. It works on this sort of scale where the more positive a thought, the more negative its opposite.
I think of my mind like a room, or maybe a basket. I guess a basket sounds less cliche. I take these bad thoughts and I suppress them. I do not need them,...
I’d marry you today if you weren’t insane.
Goals
Get paid
Get laid
Get fame
So, I'll be honest.
If I didn’t want to sweat a little, I wouldn’t constantly increase the pace. If I didn’t want to be pushed a little, I wouldn’t set the bar quite so high. If I didn’t want to be in a little over my head, I wouldn’t have dove straight in. I’ve never been one to take things slow, to stop at acceptable, or to ease into the deep end. I will do this until...
“I don’t expect you to hang this on your wall. I expect it to get put away...”
– The dean of my college, presenting us with certificates of recognition
I can do this.
You just watch.
I’ve never felt quite this low.
I am no one with nothing going no where, and I’m doing it alone.
I just want to create.
He continued speaking while I watched the world as it formed around us. Trees were emerging from shapeless masses, mountains grew out of the ground into the horizon, and the night sky pushed bright stars through a cloudy black veil. It felt magical. He reached over and turned the defroster off. The fans quit but the silence they left seemed much louder than the noise they’d been making. The...
Watching Martian Child
Just what this evening needed. (:
I’m not half the girl most people think I am. But god damn it I’m twice the girl you think I am and I swear on both of our lives I will prove that to you. And once you do see it, when you realize I’m worth so much more than you ever gave me credit for, I’ll leave you to regret it.
That’s a promise.
I have hated every inch of this body. I have altered every aspect of my body that money, time, and energy would allow for. I ran for hours on end. I took days off of eating. I tanned. I plucked. I waxed. I painted. I dyed. I polished. I filed. I scrubbed. Until the body was numb and the skin was red and the money was gone and I couldn’t stand to look at myself any longer.
I am no different...
“Man if she was just half as beautiful as she thinks she is, you’d need...”
– My father on Mariah Carey
Ever have one of those days
where you feel like you’ve done as much growing in 24 hours as you have in the last six months?