2008

We've the ultimate key to the cause...

I went for drinks with my ex yesterday.  It was the first time we have seen each other since our...

“I miss your smell and your style And your pure abiding...”
— Torch - Alanis...

Happy Fourth.

A couple of things: 1. Sometimes I really fucking hate men for the way they treat women. Humanism...

Yeah...

It’s been a little while.  I apologize. Yes, I’m kidding.  I know no one cares. I...

I don't know when else I'll have...

So, let me provide you with an informative vent-post. The guy who wanted a relationship after the...

Fuck today.

No more crazies, please. The joke is over, God. Seriously. It’s not funny anymore.

Good morning.

So, I am finally beginning to understand that the economy is in a bad, bad place right now. Last...

I also...

bought a hot pink pair of Damita K’s. Anyone who knows me knows that I generally do not wear...

These shoes are so gorgeous it hurts. And I now own them...

More of the trivial.

Things are strange at the moment.  I did not realize dating was so crazy. I know I sound like a...

“Situations get fucked up - and turned around - sooner or...”
—  Eliott Smith

Stereotypically feminine thing to blog...

Last night, I had pretty much the best date ever. There was nothing super extraordinary about it,...

veiledyellow: via luminol  This is so very, very...

I am a fucking idiot.

And I will give you one guess on why. mmm hmm. You’re absolutely correct. To quote Tori Amos: ...

Wow.

I just listened to it and I was bawling my eyes out. It’s true, beautiful, and fucking...

“I wrote a song for you. I’m going to e-mail you the...”
— The e-mail I just received...

Listen

I have been neglectful...

And I’m sorry. Ok, now that I have had time to step back and analyze my reaction to this...

“I am in love with you - and it is no fun”
— Ani DiFranco… I am...

zoya: few things are as delicious as a sugared lemon  So, so true.

Well...

I received a call from a number I didn’t recognize just now.  I hoped it would be you.  It...

More fodder for the fire.

fuck fuck fuck fuck I feel so god damned lost right now.  So in over my head, I can’t even...

Thank you...

for saying I’m the “bee’s knees”.  Sweetest thing I’ve ever heard. And...

I'm sorry.

Right now, I am in a weird place.  I feel as if there are two sides of myself in combat. The first...

Not him again...

On my way back from lunch with the officefriends today, I saw this guy that I occasionally reconnect...

werewolph: oh, there’s the door. gotta go. bye robot foggy...

Dear K...

I bought the most recent cd from your favorite band today, and it made me think of you.  And of...

“dont be mean”
—  (via werewolph) Ryan…...

I am thankful...

that there are still people in this world who appreciate and like me for myself, and not for the...

Um, this is cute and hilarious. Please enjoy.

Yeah...

that is all I have to say about tonight. Shallow blogging is all I have in me for now.  Give me a...

I want to start dating again...

but I am not meeting anyone lately.  And I am terrified that I never will. Please, idiotic girl that...

Except...

jamiewatson: And I’m not suggesting you go home with me. Neither of us need to become part of the...

I...

am feeling utterly uninspired at the moment.

Custody...

When a couple that has adopted a pet together breaks up, who gets custody of the pet? I ask, because...

Interview with Madonna about her Africa...

jakoblodwick: New York Magazine: In the movie, you look at one ritual in which a young woman is...

Another amazing work of his.

Love this novel.  Banks has an amazing talent for...

Sunday.

I went to Huntington with Jolene and Chris.  I wasn’t planning on going anywhere.  I was in...

More of the same.

We all have this ideal image that we want to project. We want to be viewed in a certain way, so we...

Today...

I am going out. Also… last night, I had a strange dream (I won’t go into the details -...

Mission: Accomplished.

Today, I: - Enjoyed a cup of coffee. - Went to class. - Had a witty exchange with one of my...

“Going Tharn”
— describes the act of a person...

Hmm...

Valtrex herpe’s medication commercial during a syndicated Sex and the City...

Ted Hughes: A Talented Murderer

Sylvia.

I was 16 when I read The Bell Jar.  My lit teacher had to break the news to me that poor Sylvia put...

Still on this.

I’m going to sit here, drinking my tea.  I’m going to sit here, and I’m going to...

This photo is for the below-mentioned him.  And I...

“Look at it this way: You’ll have more time to read.”
— My Repeated Mistake, to me, on...

I've decided I'll live.

Break-up or no break-up (there most definitely was a break-up), I will be fine. We met for dinner...

Another.  Nice view, huh?  It should be.  The people who own...

A picture I took this weekend in Bullhead at the river.

More.

I have this way of fucking up every good thing in my life.  What is wrong with me?  Why can’t...

Transitioning.

I was looking forward to blogging about my weekend in Bullhead / Laughlin and how much fun I had...

“It’s never the change we want that changes everything.”
— The Brief and Wondrous Life of...

Back.

I am going to take a shower, complete my homework, and then post about this weekends Bullhead City /...

Where I will be spending this weekend.  Yes, it’s full...

“The New York Times says you are a feminist hero…”
— -Regis (of Regis & Kelly)...

“I want you to remember and cherish the good times we had...”
— my ex-boyfriend, in his...

Lesson:

Who you date or have dated is not who you are. Why do people still not get this? It is a part of who...

More quotes from Closer...

And so it is...

I know it was originally a play, but god damn… that movie is so amazing. And not just because...

Another scene from Closer

Scene from Closer

Memory is a funny thing.

When I was about five years old, I saw a monarch butterfly land on the cement walkway that leads to...

My little pup.

Coke is the new...

Last night was a lot of fun.  I love going to shows at dirty little dive bars.  I am so glad The...

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your...”
— Katharine Hepburn

On another note...

The much older (than me) attorney working in the suite next door offered to take me for a ride on...

Film Suggestions.

There are some terrible things in this world.  Pretending that they don’t exist won’t...

Oh, Carlisle.

Americans have this preconceived notion that our government’s aggressive policy towards the...

No Extra-Credit.

I think that maybe my father raised me the way that he did, in part, to harden me and to prepare me...

spring cleanin'

mascarah: lfarm: I just spring cleaned the hell out of my dashboard. I need some wiggle room to...

Thoughts from Friday...

posted today.  Just because. “It’s all subjective.”  This is a phrase I have been...

Just because.

The Guy and I decided to watch a DVD tonight after a very short excursion to a bar (where I...

For you, Ryan Adams...

“For postmodern girls, however, it seems the fastest shortcut...”
— Parsing Sex Talk: Ladies, We...

Liberation of Women: Sexual Repression and...

“Men and women are mutually oppressed by a culture and a...”
— Laurel Limpus, member of the...

Identity Crisis.

I share the same first and last name with a semi-well-known Canadian-based photographer who models...

How well do you know your "American Heroes"?

Almost Famous is still a good movie.

And, as a side-note to this, I included that reference to Blue prior to realizing that...

California.

Today I had to stop by the grocery store to procure some required items.  I decided to take a back...

Nostalgia... or something like it.

One Halloween (I think it might’ve been 2006), I wore what has since become my favorite...

Joni Mitchell’s Blue.  One of the best albums to come...

Hey you...

I’d like to think that was meant for me, but I’m 99.9% sure it wasn’t. I’m...

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as...”
— Walt Whitman

This is a ridiculous thing to blog...

I was thinking about the people who seem to reappear in my life from time to time.  Ex-boyfriends,...

Off.

So, today I took on the daunting task of cleaning my closet.  It’s not that there’s...

Complaint #184

whitewhine: “Its all well and good that you’re fans of ‘Arrested Deveopment’ now, but where were...

“I feel like cutting my own head off!”
—  Me, to last night’s...

Here's to morning coffee...

I love starting my weekends in this fashion… coffee from my oversized coffee cup and a heavy...

“She kept on going, passed into the first whitened streets...”
— excerpt from Four Souls by...

mmm hmm.

I don’t think anyone communicates the intricacies of human emotion better than Louise...

Research this photograph.

“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even...”
—  Milan Kundera, from The...

For Billy.

Her death was a really hard thing to deal with. What a way to start the year off, and what a way to...

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and...”
— Louise Erdrich, from The...

Elliott Smith’s Either/Or. Definitely in my Top 5. ...

Feminism in France Since 1970

My issues with the below quote...

Oh, where to begin… Not that this quote wasn’t amusing.  It was.  And it has merit,...

“It’s interesting, because - again, talking in broad brush...”
— Cherchez la femme (via...

and you were still sitting there when...

I thought of about a million witty things to blog about today, but I forgot them because I did not...

E-Sharing.

I started to get a little down today due to all of the negativity associated with people wanting to...

And this was the best sight Bristol had to offer.

This was a nice moment that didn’t last that long.

“I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with...”
— Sylvia Plath (again). Just...

Past is Prelude.

He said he wants to talk. I asked him if anything was wrong, and he said: “Yes and no. I...

“Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female...”
— Sylvia Plath

Oh...

I forgot to add one more of last night’s happenings that I found amusing: T brought this new...

Substanceless rambling, per usual.

Went out without the partner again last night. And I had fun. I got off work a little early (due to...

On the way home from Lake Havasu last year.

Jezebel who? Oh, right.

So, I realize I might’ve been a little hard on the good guy yesterday.  It was just one of...

Relationships vs. Woody Allen films.

I love Woody Allen.  Well, I love his films.  Which, I suppose, are extensions of himself in a lot...

The first of many, I'm sure.

New to this.  No one is reading it, so that’s ok.  Just experimenting for now.  And writing in...

“Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place...”
— Louise Erdrich