Quote of the Month

"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering -these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love -these are what we stay alive for."
Dead Poets Society

ALSO, AMERICA

I have decided that I am going to call Grand Rapids "G Rap" from now on.  Try to get me to use it in conversation!  It'll be so much fun!

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Hai?

HEY.  I haven't blogged here in So! FREAKING! LONG!  Wow.  Basically, I've been incredibly busy and stressed out in this way that tends to create a stress loop, which really sucks.  I spend a lot of time just being stressed and a lot of energy on freaking out, but I don't spend enough time actually doing the things that maybe have a chance at alleviating the stress.  So.  That's a thing.  Also, I have no idea what I'm doing with my life, spending a lot of time freaking out about that.  I'm pretty sure that industrial design isn't quite right for me, but now I'm questioning if any kind of design is what I want to be doing.  Do I actually want to design?  Do I love designing, or do I love design and designers?  Those are distinctly different things.

I saw james bond today.  There was a lot of shirtless daniel craig and for an old guy, he's really hot.

I'm probably going to get grades that are bad enough that they won't keep up my scholarship, which would suck.   I mean, it's not a huge scholarship or anything, but I would rather have it than not have it, you know?  I don't know if they give you a semester to raise your grades back up or what.

I'm going to die sad and alone.  Whatever.

For this summer, it looks like I'm going to try to get an internship, and if that doesn't work, I might go on this school trip to the dominican republic, or I might take a writing workshop at WMU and then also work at the library and make prints all the time and write all the time.  That doesn't seem like that bad of a situation to be in, even if it was after I'm done with school.  Working at the library and writing and making prints?  NOT BAD.  Or I could work at a coffeeshop (Sparrows) and become Rebecca Green.  Because surely, what made Rebecca Green awesome was working at Sparrows.*

I also have kind of plans to eat paleo/slow carb ish after christmas is over.  And maybe exercise (!?!?) or something.  I feel like I want to get in better shape.  So that's a thing.

*sarcasm.  Rebecca Green is awesome because she probably worked her ass off at making awesome art.

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Quote of the Month

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them”.
William Shakespeare

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"The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before and he does it without destroying something else."
John Updike

yolo

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Avocados, Bare, and Kayaking

Summer is ending.  Ending, as in I have to go college tomorrow. That's really, really weird.  Literally two weeks ago, I was in the woods, being woodsy.  That's most of the reason for the lack of posts this summer.
Now, I'm going to write about all the things I did this summer and didn't write about while I was actually doing them.  YAY.
So, Camp.  I went there, and it was woodsy.  EXCEPT that we have logging happening on camp and our trees are getting cut down and it's REALLY SAD.  Everyone on staff this year was returning, except for Jumana, who was international (from Palestine!).  I feel like that made the dynamic a little different.  I don't want to say that this year was less fun than last year, it was just different.  There was less togetherness, it just felt like I was...just there, sometimes.
So I'm not sure if I'm as dead-set on going back next summer as I once was.
THE NOVEL, you ask?  It's still a thing, and I still like it.  There's just a whole lot of writing that I need to do, and not enough time to do it in.  I did a lot of work during the portion of summer when I was in Novi, but I didn't have a whole lot of time at camp.
AVOCADOS, you ask?  I ate a metric fuckton of avocados this summer, and it was a really enjoyable experience.  I strongly recommend it.  There are like four avocados in my fridge right now, and...I plan on EATING ALL OF THEM RIGHT THIS MINUTE.
BARE BARE BARE BARE BARE BARE BARE is a musical about gay boys who are acting in Romeo and Juliet and go to a Catholic boarding school.  ALL MY FAVOURITE THINGS IN ONE.  SRSLY.  YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS BECAUSE IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.  Just a few of my favourite songs right hurr.

I just love love love how it's crazy and dramatic and I just have so many FEEELS BECAUSE DRAAAAAMAAAAAA.  Gaah.  I feel like bare just understands me so much.
So, KAYAKING.  This summer, I feel like I spent a lot more time kayaking or at least a lot more time explaining kayaking, which makes me feel like "woah, maybe this is a thing I'm good at or something." and yeah.  KAYAKING IS THE SHIZ.  All y'all should check out mah fifteen-seventeen post on kayaking right now.
UMMM.  Yeah.  So I should have like, goals, for like, this semester or something.  I want to blog a lot!  I want to meet a lot of people!  I want to do really well in school!  I want to find an internship!  YEAH!  LET'S DO ALL THIS STUFF AND MORE, GUYS!

I should probably stop making a fool of myself now.  Kthnxbai, love y'all.


EDIT: IRELAND
Here's the deal.  Ireland seems to be the shiz, and I think I want to move there.  If you are looking for someone super duper cool to hang out with you in Ireland, TELL ME YO.

That's all.

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"You’ve got one life; live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he’s lousy, and walk out the door. This is your time. This is your life. You know what? Dream as big as you want to; it’s the cheapest thing you’ll ever do."
Jared Leto

Quote of the Month

"It’s the so-called “normal” guys who always let you down. Sickos never scare me. Least they’re committed."
Batman Returns

Quote of the Month

"Other bands, they want to make it about sex or pain, but you know, The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” The first single. Its effing brilliant, right? Thats what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four hour hump sesh, they don’t want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand"
Thom (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist)

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