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subscribeFriday, September 23
climbing a tree into the sky and never climbing back down---
psshaw
psshaw
Austin City Limits
Tuesday, September 20
Anyone have band recommendations for me? It'll be my first year to go to ACL and I want to see more than the headliners. Looking forward to some Decemberists, the Walkmen, Doves ...
Monday, September 19
Quiet, soft spoken and well liked "Hands on a Hardbody" contestant kills himself after not winning the truck.
Quotes from the summer
Thursday, September 15
DSC02535.MPG... getting drunked up and throwing things at people (in a suit and tie, no less)
DSC02604.MPG...oh my God, Jesus Christ, etc. (after the 99th time I heard the girl say that)
DSC02572.MPG...Glasgow... DONT DO IT! (said when he had the whiskey-fueled-idea to tie all the fireworks together and set them off at once)
DSC02604.MPG...oh my God, Jesus Christ, etc. (after the 99th time I heard the girl say that)
DSC02572.MPG...Glasgow... DONT DO IT! (said when he had the whiskey-fueled-idea to tie all the fireworks together and set them off at once)
Wednesday, September 14
If you are in Austin... Barbq fundraiser this Saturday, the 17th at 6pm.
All donations (give whatever you want) will go towards the Katrina relief efforts of the American Red Cross.
Soda, wine, and A LOT of food will be provided.
Msg me if you want details. It's not at my place so I want to check before I invite 1000 internet people. :)
All donations (give whatever you want) will go towards the Katrina relief efforts of the American Red Cross.
Soda, wine, and A LOT of food will be provided.
Msg me if you want details. It's not at my place so I want to check before I invite 1000 internet people. :)
Saturday, September 10
I'm listening to Hey Mama by Kanye and reading about positivity, there is a little girl in pigtails dancing around and it looks like she is dancing to Kanye West at times. There are pastries in the corner, people eating, drinking red fruit tea and waters with ice.
I'd like to be a better dancer. I would usually say that I don't know why I don't feel supported at school, but I think I know now that it is because I need family closer. Or I need long-term-friends to be around: The people who Know You Best.
Family = social connectedness = positive emotion. Positive emotion leads to broadened thinking, an upward spiral, they say (they = Frederickson and Joiner, 2002); positive emotions buffer individuals from stress (Folkman and Moskowitz 2000). Gotta love science, in the sense that sometimes it gets used in the real world.
I'd like to be a better dancer. I would usually say that I don't know why I don't feel supported at school, but I think I know now that it is because I need family closer. Or I need long-term-friends to be around: The people who Know You Best.
Family = social connectedness = positive emotion. Positive emotion leads to broadened thinking, an upward spiral, they say (they = Frederickson and Joiner, 2002); positive emotions buffer individuals from stress (Folkman and Moskowitz 2000). Gotta love science, in the sense that sometimes it gets used in the real world.
"On Thursday, Bush signed a proclamation suspending the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act which protected wage-earners who work for federal contractors like Halliburton and The Shaw Group -- companies likely to receive the bulk of those federal billions earmarked for reconstruction." link, via boingboing
George Bush Doesn't Like Black People
Cookie?
Friday, September 9
Quote of the Day from JkHolland's Xanga Site: "We will smash them with fiction. We will cream them with metaphor. Verisimilitude, my junky bottom. [Laughs.] We're creating an immaculate reality that beats reality any day."- James Marsters, formerly Spike from 'Buffy' and 'Angel,' soon-to-be Brainiac on 'Smallville'
Seligman Signature Strengths Survey Scores (too many Ss, in my opinion)... anyway, here is my 'Top Strength':
Creativity, ingenuity, and originality
Thinking of new ways to do things is a crucial part of who you are. You are never content with doing something the conventional way if a better way is possible.
On this strength, you scored as high as or higher than . . .
92% of all Web site users
90% of all male respondents
93% of all 25 to 34 years old
90% of all Post-college grads
91% of those in my Zip Code
Creativity, ingenuity, and originality
Thinking of new ways to do things is a crucial part of who you are. You are never content with doing something the conventional way if a better way is possible.
On this strength, you scored as high as or higher than . . .
92% of all Web site users
90% of all male respondents
93% of all 25 to 34 years old
90% of all Post-college grads
91% of those in my Zip Code
Snow Sand Castles
Wednesday, September 7
I had your hand in mine, once.I felt like writing about a girl, and it turned out to be about Laura again. Always, Laura. I am consistent. Romantics are consistent. One high ideal, one image, one feeling. We let one moment take over our dreams. Our restless, shadowless dreams.
Your fingers were small. Smaller than mine.
Your hair was long. It broke easily. It flowed.
I am singing Love Will Tear Us Apart. In the chorus, I whistle to myself. A German girl my roommate met on a bus is sitting across from me, singing softly to herself. Strange moments happen on the way to the next song, when piano notes enter my life again.
And again, I think of Laura. Alysa, and Jen, and Crystal, and now I see a field, in summer, with brutally green grass and kites slowly drifting upward on a wind.
Now, it's gone. Now this is the moment before I wake up. My panic. My dread. This is about listening to Teenage Wasteland on Christmas morning and being happy.
It's not about me losing myself in the words flickering across my notebook screen, hoping to know why the words appear below my fingers, and why I really don't want to share them with you.
This is about why I just lied, perfectionism and guilt. Sickness, too much sickness.
4 years
i go fly a kite
a world in a paper oven
her eyes, black
pepper, a dozen
days I've fallen for you
each morning, more resistance
you encompass everything
with your treacherous skin
and wine soaked heroine
wet teeth, like death
letting sleep leave me
and folding flowers
approach
a world in a paper oven
her eyes, black
pepper, a dozen
days I've fallen for you
each morning, more resistance
you encompass everything
with your treacherous skin
and wine soaked heroine
wet teeth, like death
letting sleep leave me
and folding flowers
approach
Thursday, September 1
"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
Goethe
