February 2012
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“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
– Leo Tolstoy (via misswallflower)
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“Perhaps it never did snow that August in Vermont; perhaps there never were...”
– Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook (via joywesterman)
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“We’re weak and tiny. We’re Grenada. There are men parachuting from...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Life will always be different from this point out. I’m having a hard time understanding what that means and learning to accept it.
remind me to remember this too →
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things that make me happy…
when I’m hunched over my computer and Faulkner crawls under my body, wraps herself in my scarf, and starts purring
making a giant pancake and a half pot of coffee, then crawling back into bed with both to prepare for a lazy day
“if I could I would shrink myself
sink through your skin to your blood cells...”
– brand new
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Nothing like being holed up in a beloved coffeeshop working away with acquaintances, waiting for the snow to start.
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Today I acquired two wooden pallets. I could only fit one in my tiny car at a time, so it was a two-part journey. I’m getting closer to my goal, though, creating this, raising my bed on pallets. A mattress on the floor has just gotten entirely too old.
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January 2012
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“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read....”
– Pat Conroy (via pressley)
December 2011
3 posts
Yay for excellent holidays filled with family and friends and food and awesome presents! I had a wonderful Christmas this year, and am super happy that I was able to return to Pennsylvania for a few days to celebrate. I also got to have a great pre-holiday with Kayce and Faulkner.
Poor Faulkner is having an identity crisis right now, though. It turns out the little guy is a girl. Her spay went...
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11 things to know at 25(ish)
November 2011
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Remember that time I worked at TJ Maxx? Well it looks like it’s going to happen again. I’m really not stoked about this, but it looks like a job is a job. I’m really excited about some other things I applied for and am going to try to go after those. It’s just upsetting because I left that store to move here and do better things. Now after two years I’m back.
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October 2011
4 posts
New kittens are stressful. Good thing they’re also super cute.
September 2011
4 posts
“I always carry emergency smores rations in my car.”
– Leslie Knope
It’s been nearly a month since I finished with PeaceJam. I’m trying to pull everything together, get myself organized, find a job, get established as an adult. A semblance of one at least. But sometimes I worry I don’t want to stay here. I was accused of not trying to put roots down in Missouri, and I think there’s a lot of truth to this.
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August 2011
4 posts
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When to abandon ship has been a concept I have always had a hard time grasping.
July 2011
2 posts
Feeling homesick is silly and nostalgic.
June 2011
5 posts
Ultimate ant-killing solution: 40 parts rubbing alcohol, 40 parts water, 20 parts dish soap. Put in spray bottle, shake up, spray on ants, instant death. And it won’t even poison my cat.
I had my first interview yesterday for a position I just applied to last week. It’s for the VISTA Team Leader position for the Appalachian Coal Country Team. Double excitement for me there, my first interview for post-PeaceJam, and for a position I’m really excited about.
I applied after reading a couple AmeriCorps St. Louis applications where the applicant worked with Appalachian...
My life has been: getting in a car and driving to Memphis on a whim. It has also been: coming back and finding out my roommate isn’t moving in on a whim. Such is my life.
May 2011
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Looking for a new roommate, getting my car broken into, cleaning up black powder from my office, getting my window replaced, looking for jobs, trying to be productive in my current position and failing, dealing with a rambunctious cat, hiding from my terrible roommate, cutting my own hair, spending time with the fella, running into awkward people, drinking lots of ginger ale.
April 2011
3 posts
Remember that time I brought a cat into the office?
Right now I’m living in one of those times where I can’t wait for it to be the past tense. It’s getting there, just not soon enough.
It all started when I said I’d take this cat, Memphis. A couple girls I know were watching him after his owners left him behind when they moved. These girls couldn’t keep him, though,...
The Slam came and went. I worked hard and the outcome wasn’t what I had hoped for, but some good things came out of it, so I’m trying to be positive. The STACs conference came and went and was a lot of fun. Next weekend is St. Louis Serves Day, and I’ll be gardening at EarthDance, which I’m looking forward to. The Green Team is breaking ground for their organic garden and...
March 2011
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summer or winter. there’s no such thing as spring.
February 2011
8 posts
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr.
Yesterday after work, I found myself in PetSmart talking to the woman who worked there about mice and hamsters. We stepped into the little room to access the cages so that I could handle the rodents.
I’m not really sure why I suddenly wanted a pet. I used to keep ladybugs, caterpillars and inch worms up until my parents consented and bought me a hamster. This started despite living in a...