That's right, guys. My birthday is also Star Wars Day.You only wish you could be that cool.JUST KIDDING. I don't even like Star Wars. And goddammt, it was my day fiiiiiiirst! *whines*BEYOND THAT, THOUGH.It kinda sucks having my birthday in the spring. I'm stuck with the knowledge that for the next three to four years, my birthday will forever fall on the week before finals. Y'know how most normal...

D’you think it’s possible for two people to become friends, and then continue to get closer and closer to one another and still not fall in love?I mean, suppose there’s this person with whom you have everything in common. You understand them, and they understand you. With every passing day that you’re together, you become ever closer, digging into one another’s memories, learning their...

This chick named Andrea Gibson is my new hero. Dear god, I watched so many of her videos last night that, by the end of an hour, I was thinking and reading everything in poetic rhythm.I was about ready to smack my head into my desk overandoverandoverandoverandover again until it stopped. Ferreal.BUT. Listen to thisssss. Just listen once. You won't regret it:I love her I love her I love her I love...

I had just turned in my Politics test, this morning, having spilled my guts out over foreign policy and other unrelated subjects, when I had a sudden and quite random epiphany.A few weeks ago, me and a few of my guy friends were chilling in the dining hall, talking about a couple of our other friends--who weren't with us at the time. These girls have been going out for some time and have been...

I think I just got asked out on a date tonight...?I think.I mean, it's not like I have a whole lot of experience with...well, anything relationship-related, but if a guy you've known for a bit asks you to dinner, involving just you and him, for which he swears he's paying....That's a date.And...poor guy. There were two instances when the others of our group busted down the door of my closet, and...

I have a useless rant!Ready?I was searching YouTube for this old country song, and I found one of many slideshow/lyrics videos that people slap together in five minutes. At the end of this video, I saw the supposed disclaimer, "I got the pictures off of Google."Uh, ahem? No, you didn't.You got the pictures from genuine websites with hard-working individuals behind them, who wanted to share their...

Why? WHY, YOU ASK?SNOW DAAAAAAY!!!Eli's a happy girl. Why? Because this is no 'ordinary' snow day, with only a few teachers cancelling one or two classes because they can't make it out of their front drives. No.Our entire campus is closed! =DFrickin' AWESOME!! -squeals- There were parties in the hallways! Stupid-cheers on the sidewalks! People were doing happy dances (in their heads... >.>)...

No joke. I actually learned why the sky is blue in the daytime and orange/red during the sunset.And now I can know longer pretend that this phenomenon occurs because there's a giant ice cream sundae sitting just outside the atmosphere.Lame.D'you wanna know why the sky is blue?Seriously?Lies! No one wants to know why the sky is blue. It ruins all of the fun! xDAnyway, I am sitting here eating the...

EDIT: Want to see a crazy-ass authoress dance around in a cow costume? Click 'Enter,' then the link titled 'Interview.'You ask, "Wtf?"I say, "Exactly."I have a new hero. Her name is Libba Bray. She wrote this amazing book called "Going Bovine," and I just finished it, today.And that rhymed.Libba Bray pwns all other writers out there. No joke. Who else could bring together snow globes, high school,...

Well, here’s to a new year, yeah? 2010 has been quite the journey. Full of self-discovery, hope, heartbreak, soul-deep pain, and realizing that I do have the strength to push on.Let’s see. We’ve got1) Learning how to fall in love.2) Realizing that my sexuality isn’t actually what I’d thought it was for the past 18 years.3) Working to accept the aforementioned horror without hating myself...

Over on deviantArt, there is a project called "Shout It Out" that has been going on for a very long time, started by this person. In turn, so many have followed and done their own versions.Basically, as she puts it in her Artist's Comments: "Someone told me once, that she believed we make life hard for ourselves by keeping things bottled up inside. Whether it be due to shame, embarrassment, fear,...

There was a religious fanatic on campus yesterday. I can't for the life of me figure out why. We're a state college. I didn't think it would be allowed. The guy had security guards around him and everything. People were furious. I saw some students dressed up in suits looking pissed, as though they were preparing to go before the Board or something.We have this round flat of concrete surrounded by...

Shrek: For your information, there's a lot more to ogres than people think.Donkey: Example?Shrek: Example... uh... ogres are like onions![holds up an onion, which Donkey sniffs]Donkey: They stink?Shrek: Yes... No!Donkey: Oh, they make you cry?Shrek: No!Donkey: Oh, you leave 'em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs...Shrek: [peels an onion] NO! Layers. Onions have...

I'm agonna be covering multiple points in this here loverly journal.POINT ONE: Chocolate.73% Cacao does wonders. I swear, in twenty minutes, I'm either going to be bouncing off the walls or horny as hell.Too much info? Sorry.POINT TWO: Phil CollinsI just wanted to share this wonderfully inspirational song.It's a feel-good song, and I'm in the mood for lots of that (that, and chicken strips. But...

With autumn coming down all around, with all the pretty colors and the bizarre mesh of culture-months, I got to some seeeeeerious thinking. One question hit me hard this morning:"What does 'being American' mean, anyway?"When I think of 'American,' I think of plaid shirts, apple pie, woodsmoke, and talltalltalltall pine trees up high in the mountains. I think of 'up at dawn, meal at midday,...

I am on such a Care Bears kick!For some reason, the idea came into my head a few days ago. I don't remember how. I do remember when I was a little kid--like, really little. Three-ish years old--we had a tape of a few episodes. I remembered certain scenes very, very clearly.Anyway, I spent all evening researching. I found out that a bunch of different companies made different versions and movies...

D'you mind if I jump right in and get all profound? Get your brain-juices rolling? I promise that I'll let you jump down my throat and tell me all the way's I'm wrong after. I want feedback on this. (And please don't make me sit here alone, with no feedback, thinking that this is all over your heads. I know you're smarter than that.)~~~~Your morals define how you think, right? Your values control...

These past few days, I have realized something...something strange and scary and fully exhilarating. I have found that everything I look at holds a power over me.The people I talk to, the objects I touch, everything. They all mean something more than what I’d originally given them credit for. That girl down the hall, the one with the quiet eyes and the hidden smile, she has a story. The kid down...

I am going to go crazy. Stark-raving mad.I can't do this, right now. I can't do this, period.It's...the trying not to feel. The trying too hard. The fear of being incapable, of not being good enough. There's the nagging feeling that, no matter how hard I try, I'll never get there.It's all so new. I'm really, really bad at new.I think that...if there was someone whom I knew I could count on, this...

Bombs!Seriously, guys, I have no idea what's going on outside our building, right now, but it's loud, explosive, and freakish. Sounds a bit like fireworks. But...louder. And...why are there fireworks in September? It's kinda freaky. Seriously, we're all gonna die. (The fact that we're bordering this massive cemetary makes it all the freakier. I swear, the dead are busting out of their graves!)The...