October 2009
2 posts
Slow Death
I have come to a realization that I have no business doing what I want to do. I have given up the idea of brilliance because it is a superfluous endeavor that only leaves one wanting.
My classes are proving to me that I am a person who is too wrapped up in the complexity of her own ideas to express them in the coherence of grammatical mechanisms. Yes, I am nineteen years old and I cannot express...
"I'm COVERED in BEES!"
I am sitting in Nielson Library at a lonely little carrel on the third floor facing nothing but shelf after shelf of books. Under normal circumstances, I sit at at the carrel near the window so I can look outside. College students spend so much time indoors for classes and studying that they tend to forget to look out windows. It is something I know full well since a large chunk of time is...
August 2009
1 post
The Sky Is Falling
On the front of every newspaper were various photos of the sky filled with gaping black holes between a backdrop of azure blue. Something was horribly wrong. There was panic and then most people’s thoughts turned to the people whom they imagined to be gods on earth to fix the problem. In the first few minutes, I will admit that I thought the same. But then I thought of what I guessed the...