Friday, February 13, 2004

vamos a la fiesta

once i hauled my ass out of bed today was amazing. kisses and candy and smiles and laughter and wind and rain. calls from a beautiful girl (three of them! yay!) and silly bible discussions and everything today was wonderful. not because it was so out of the ordinary, just because all the good things added up all day and im smiling im dancing im so happy happier than ive been in a long time and SAN FRANCISCO ROCKS!

katie: i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you [etcetera. i think you can fill in the rest :-P]

Thursday, February 12, 2004

like the sun in the sky

some days are quiet and some days are loud, some are sunny and some are rainy, some are perfect and some just suck, and some days are made for sitting in the sun and eating oranges and reading the phantom tollbooth. today is such an up-and-downer. sitting in the sun eating fresh oranges can never go wrong. getting an email is wonderful. i got on top of a ladder, i wrote a long email, i sat around in my apartment listening to pretty girl-and-guitar music feeling pretty in my blacks with my crazy hair, writing a long email to a certain lo. today is peaceful, not in a good or bad way. peaceful. the ups are outweighing the downs. im content, more or less. one [free dress] day to freedom, and im not even really dreading the imminent family vacation. peaceful. more days should be like this.

and yet im not okay.

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

here not to laugh but to learn

i spend a lot of time wondering what exactly my life is, why it is that way, am i right in thinking what i think about it, how do other people see me, what do they think my life is like, why do i get unhappy when i do, why do i spend so much time being unhappy when all logic states i shouldn't be, and just what goes on in other people's heads.

especially the last one.

what do people think? how do they feel? how does the world look to them? what do they see when they look at me? am i as invisible as i feel? does everyone feel this way? just how strange am i? what is reality? is something off in my head? i think so, but i do't know. all i have are my own perceptions and for all i know they are the same as those of everyone else. i am just another insecure high school student who knows the answers in class and sleepwalks through life, never picking up on enough clues to make a working picture of the world i inhabit and always analyzing everything around me. what am i? who am i? where and why and how am i?

why do people like me? sometimes i see it and sometimes i dont, some morning i wake up and decide that, while i am not the ugliest person ever born i am pretty goddamn close and i hate the shape of my face the way my hair wont behave maybe i shouldnt have cut it what did i even look like back then my eyes are okay but im breaking out so i throw on the same dirty school uniform and slog off to class. then some days i look in the mirror and im pretty, as pretty as the people i like, for once i have a chance and my eyes look good like that and my skins not that bad and my hair looks pretty cool and my face is a nice shape and i remind myself of every girl ive ever fallen for in some minute way.

if you know me, you probably know the second type of day is awfully rare.

Monday, February 09, 2004

zoot suit

we won we won we won!!!!!!!! holy shit we won!!!!!!!! ordinarily the use of too many exclamation points drives me crazy like a mofo but i am in a jumpy squealy utterly insane mood that definitely calls for excessive punctuation because we WON!!!

i DO believe in miracles.