stuff post

stuff i've been working on:
- i've been editing my novel and am finding it excruciatingly slow. after writing 50k in a month, slowing down is really difficult. but i guess i really love the premise and have a concept in my mind of where i want it to go, so that's why i'm hanging on and pushing on.
- i reconstructed a shirt that i absolutely love and am trying to progress into actually reconstructing all of the clothes that i never wear. my friend and i agreed to not buy any new clothes because the fact is, unless your clothes are shredded and falling apart, you never need to buy any clothes. you can just keep reconstructing them. and that, my friends, leads to the concept of reusing absolutely everything and never buying anything which is way to complex for my mind at this hour.
- i've been reading and analyzing literature a lot lately but more on that later.
- i've been thinking a lot about my future and what i'm actually going to do when i graduate from high school. i make plans with my friends and i dream up shit that i want to do, but now that it's this close, i need to figure what i'm ACTUALLY going to do, you know? if my grandfather follows through buying my a 1974 volkswagen hippie van, i'm going to try to travel south america with one of my friends, but who the hell knows.
- i'm trying to climb more often and actually went climbing one day at the gym instead of just saying i'm going to climb but not actually doing it. i really do love bouldering, but i'm lazy (and don't worry. i know that's no excuse.), but i need to get into the habit of going at least twice a week.
- i bought reusable pads. i've been wanting to do this for a while but never got around to it. i'm still waiting for them to be shipped, but i'm hoping they're awesome.

books i've been reading:
- the awakening by kate chopin
- dawn by elie weisel
- night by elie weisel
- tuesdays with morrie
- cunt by inga muscio
- trying to read the monkey wrench gang
- trying to read the revolution will not be microwaved
- NEED to read the alchemist by paolo coelho
- NEED to read drop city by t.c. boyle
- NEED to read a tale of love and darkness by amos oz
- NEED to read the little prince by antoine de st. exupery

things i've been thinking:
- people should turn off their fucking tvs and pick up a book. this society would be so much better off if we all sat around reading and discussing literature.
- the world needs public bicycles because cars are bullshit, no matter how much i like them and how convenient they are.
- how am i going to live without my friends for a month? (kate and kristen are going to thailand for their realms trip)

homework i need to finish tonight:
- creative writing story: need to write the last vignette and edit to make sure it doesn't sound like shit.
- english: burn powerpoint of van gogh and the awakening onto cd and print out.
- chemistry: study for the quiz and actually go in early tomorrow because you will fail it if you don't. and danya, you need good grades if you want to go someplace like evergreen for college. so try to get your chem. grade above a d.

yep. pretty much.

year post

(thanks for the idea, laura.)

one day before the end of the year. shit, it's gone by really fast. and i've accomplished a lot (for me) in 2007:

been one of the first-picked people in ultimate frisbee
gone to bali for a month
carved a piece of wood into a flower
gone on a ten-day canoe trip
gone to italy
gone to shakespeare camp for the third time
wrote a 50k novel in a month
got back into the habit of sketching everyday
picked up bouldering
wrote a couple poems
started a couple paintings
became an aunt
got the lead role in a musical

my new year's resolutions/goals for 2008/unreachable hopes and dreams:
return to realms
edit my novel and send it out
bake my own bread
start sewing my own clothes
work more on the zine with kate
do more work with like-minded people
cook and/or bake more
do nanowrimo again
start actually journaling
get and practice a guitar
work on a farm over the summer
make some music
change my room around for more room for "STUFF"
expose myself to new music/architecture/"art"
grow some of my own food
go on some sort of fast
regularly practice:
- yoga
-meditation
- "art"
- music
- blogging

yep. pretty much.