"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"Don’t talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what’s good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
- Pablo Picasso
"I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now."
"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."
"If your status ain’t hood, I ain’t checkin’ for him.
BETTER BE STREET IF HE LOOKIN’ AT ME."
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T.S. Eliot
"GIRLS WHO ARE BOYS
WHO LIKE BOYS TO BE GIRLS
WHO DO BOYS LIKE THEY’RE GIRLS
WHO DO GIRLS LIKE THEY’RE BOYS
ALWAYS SHOULD BE SOMEONE YOU REALLY LOVE"
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27, 2011. 9:
48 PM
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M:
Perhaps we can bring you out for a tour of Seattle? He can come too. It will be so fun!
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J:
Hahah. "tour".
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M:
You can see the city center from my bedroom window. . . We'll point out all the monuments.
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J:
That sounds awesome. Hmmm, wait. That also sounds like a euphemism.
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M:
It is.
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 26, 2011. 12:17 PM
A Note on Self-Awareness:
“I think, therefore I exist, as a thing that thinks.”
1. Sometimes, I cry. Sometimes, I laugh. Then, I’m Like : Ugh. Whatevs.
2. Sometimes, you just have to man up and push through.
Social Cognitive Theory of Gender Development aka The Breakdown of CalArts Feminist Structure: (an overview) aka wisdom, life lessons, and pretense
"I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel or an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something."
- FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, Notes from Underground
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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 2011. 1:
07 AM
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J:
Maybe, maybe not? Wow. Elusive. Going out and staying in are both so overrated though.
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B:
So... tell me...what's shakin'?
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J:
Hmm. Currently? Working on some realtor stuff.
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B:
Still? Right now? You in your power suit? With your glasses perfectly poised on the edge of your tiny nose, a few strands of your pulled back hair fallen down to indicate the serious of your efforts?. . .
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J:
Hah. Nice little fantasy you've got there. Somewhat, yes.
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B:
Thank you. I quite like it a bit actually. Doesn't seem beyond the pale of your possibility... Like, hmm, Kelly K gets an internship as a junior tv journalist for the summer. And yeah, ten days I think. Can ya wait?
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J:
Well, possibly. Waiting. Can be achieved. I can do most anything well.
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B:
I like your confidence. It is a faint whiff of a future night's air redolent of more brazen testimony. Or, just confidence. I've distracted you long enough. I should let you focus. Over those lowered glasses.
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J:
Oh please. Your distractions are totally not unwelcome. . . Slight inconvenience
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B:
Maybe an amusing open parenthesis.
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J:
So. Dinner. . ?
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B:
Yes.
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J:
Quite solid. Hmm, your other dates haven't been panning out lately?
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B:
Heh, oh what pray tell do you mean by that?
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J:
You are aware that us actually having a proper dinner has been a really drawn out attempt
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B:
Truth be told- have you thought or pegged me, successful or not as some sort of tease? I fear you have and I've done little to correct that. . .
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J:
Hmm. A thought. I also thought of how dinner might actually go with you
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B:
So what did you come up with? How did you think dinner with me would go?
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J:
Tease? Not quite. Indecisive, maybe. Dinner would go famously, I assume.
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B:
I do love that use of famously. Let's see. Flirtatious as you might be, I know you're not simply a good time girl either. Of course, I shouldn't put you in any box so to speak. . .
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J:
Well, you are young and single. Have a good time as you'd like. So, what you're really trying to say is, you are on the prowl right now and you don't want me to get caught in your predatorial whirlwind?
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B:
Not on the prowl per se but just, I don't know, not looking to get married.
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J:
Neither am I. One date does not a marriage make
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B:
Maybe I was being a little hyperbolic for humor's sake.
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J:
I am amused. But seriously. Who knows.
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B:
True true. But with my current state stated, more or less, it may beg a question or two of me from you. I'm like some character in Alice in Wonderland.
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J:
Indeed. But hmm. I have no questions at the moment. Whatever anyone wants to do is what they want to do. Whether or not I may fit into that takes two. Haha. Look who's Dr. Seuss now.
"My fault, my failure, is not the passions I have, but my lack of control of them."
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(MONDAY. AUGUST 22, 2011. 11:
19 AM)
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R:
THANK YOU!!! That drives me nuts when people misuse Murphy's Law. That, and Schrodinger's Cat. It is essentially a lampoon of the practicality of quantum physics.
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JOANNA:
I see.
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R:
At least on a non-subatomic level. But people think he actually killed a cat.
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JOANNA:
Oh. It's a metaphor, obviously. Or uhm, euphemism.
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R:
Exactly. And not only that but it is ironic. The cat is not only alive and dead, it is a joke about what is true about the quantum world does not translate to the material world.
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JOANNA:
That totally makes sense.
