A one-armed robot is just as important as a two-armed robot. Sometimes one-armed robots even do better than two-armed robots because they are driven by madness and unknown forces, as if possessed. Other times they just happen to have a better brand of battery than the 2 armed robots.
I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don’t want any more vicissitudes, I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via brokenmachine) Via itsonlythewind
Dedicated to my new friends from the Rocky Horror line.
I’m just a sweet transvestite…
I love this movie and this little kid. I hope that if I ever have a kid, it’s just like him (minus the running away part).
(via likeneelyohara)
I <3 Books
Today the smell of fresh paper, blank pages awaiting my furious underlining and bracketing, quotables bound to be found, and the crinkling sound of turning stiff pages enticed me into spending my paycheck on books that I am unlikely to have time to read until December. I walked into Barnes and Noble and despite my intentions of merely browsing, I immediately convinced myself that I need to buy books - after all, I will only become better at the craft of writing by reading. An investment in books is an investment in my future (or something along those lines).
My classes this semester in memoir and essay writing have hooked me on non-fiction and I set out to find a few of my more recent favorites - John McPhee and Frank Conroy - and to find some female authors to add to my growing collection of male authored books. Mission: failed.
In continuing with my oddly masculine taste in literature, I bought V. by Thomas Pynchon and The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace and indulged my taste for collections with The 2009 Best American Non-Required Reading edited by Dave Eggers (another recent favorite).
What are you reading?
Viva La Persistence - Kimya Dawson
here’s a simple dissertation on a complex situation
money and intimidation and mass graves make strong foundations
for the giant corporations that own all the tv stations
telling us to take vacations to their big theme park plantations
rather than to hearts of nations
Sometimes the feelings we start to have again are the same feelings that never really went away.
The Great Big Blogosphere
Many of my friends are also starting/reinventing blogs. This is exciting. Now, instead of writing my research paper on Web 2.0 and politics that is due on Tuesday, I can read their blogs.
In other news:
-I interviewed with Teach for America on Friday. I think it went well, but I won’t actually know until early November.
-I started making up songs and playing my out of tune guitar. It’s great for relieving stress.
-I had my first biscuit at Bojangles this morning. It was far too buttery.
October in cell phone pictures:
Erik looks like a zombie when he is sleeping.
Hahahahahahahaha
This squirrel stalked me at UNC.
Fall in Raleigh is so much better than fall in Wilmington.
Snuggies for dogs?!?!
Nick and Tiana at the mall. Nick loved the outfit we picked out (especially the hat).
This is Tiana (my roommate) cashing in her Bojangles V-Card.
This is my Bojangles biscuit. Notice the seeping butter.
About Me
My name is Autumn.
I want to
read more
love more
travel more
learn more
experience more
be more
feel more.
Other blogs I enjoy:
Cynicism at the core is really love
See Josh Run
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