Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Thank Yous

We’ve been quarantined for two months and some change. And I’ve been very sappy and reflective lately. My makeshift high school graduation is in three days, so here are a couple sentences thanking the people who’ve had an impact on me in the last four years. (I'm alphabetizing this because I can…

Saturday, May 9, 2020

Growing Up

bro i just remembered you're real Those messages was sent on May 9, 2018. Two years ago today, as of me writing this. I had been talking to Logan* online all year; he was my at-the-time boyfriend’s best friend who'd moved out of the state in 9th grade. He was scheduled to fly into Chicago on …

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Nyctophilia and Pascal's Diversion

nyctophilia. cambridge dictionary: (n) the condition of being very happy and comfortable in the dark. it’s arguably not a proper word, but it works for my rhetoric, okay? i’ve always been a night person. and there isn’t much depth to it. i wouldn’t say that perhaps the moon and i are in love; i wouldn…

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

March Favorites

I love recommending things. It makes me feel ~impactful~. So glean from this whatever you choose. Songs Trippest Flu - Swardy  // shame that it’s only 93 seconds long. it’s so lovely. and calming.   Ghost - nelward  //  catchy catchy catchy!! silly lyrics! his voice is dope! papacito - Alaina Castillo …

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Art Is Hard

I started this blog in January and didn’t post between the 31st and the beginning of March. Is anyone surprised that I took on an artistic endeavor and inadvertently abandoned it? I’m not. A friend of mine who also blogs wrote about how at the beginning of the year every year, his gym fills up. A mon…

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Language

Charlatan.  I think I secretly live in fear of being found out; denounced as a fraud and a charlatan. I worry I’m not fit to be the section leader of both the capstone band and orchestra at my school. At best, I’m there because there was no one better to fill the role. But that hardly makes me quali…

Monday, January 27, 2020

My Breakup with House

For the last two months, I’ve gotten through each day knowing that when I got home that night, I could watch an episode or two of my favorite medical drama, House, M.D. On January 25, 2020, I watched the final episode. Misty-eyed by Warren Zevon’s “Keep Me in Your Heart”, I lay prone on my bed for a…