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| | Current Music: | Al Green | | Time: | 06:08 pm |
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| Today I had some of the best sleep that I have had in a really long time. I was listening to jazz and my window was open and I could hear the rain. And I was warm. And I slept much longer than I had planned to.
Not proud of myself for not starting the annotated bibliography until just now. I'll be working on that for a while unfortunately. Fortunately, however, I have nothing else to do tonight.
As much as I love sleeping in the rain, I really wish that it would stay sun shining outside. I love the sunshine. Who doesn't.
I am going to a semi-formal at Duke in a few weekends with my best friend. I have been looking around for dresses online but I don't have enough money to buy any of the ones that I like. I'm sure all the girls reading this understand my dilemma. I'll just have to go with the borrowed dress, which is always a winner. Plus its not really like he cares what I wear anyway. I am excited though.
What I am not excited about is getting a job. Apparently I have to do that some time soon. Apparently I won't be galavanting all over this country with my girlfriends to every music festival from Bonnarroo to Austin City Limits. Apparently I'll just be working. All day. Apparently I won't be traveling at all. Not to music festivals, not anywhere.
boooooooooooooooo
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| | Current Music: | Rage Against the Machine | | Time: | 09:41 am |
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| Today is my nineteenth birthday. I am getting ready to leave the oh so exotic Murfreesboro to return to Knoxville here in about an hour. Overall, my break has been pretty low key but I have done some interesting things. These include riding four wheelers, going camping, seeing a drag show, spending too much money on over priced drinks, spending a lot of money on gas, going to my favorite store ever, being a year older, shooting a pistol for the first time.
I feel pretty accomplished.
Shooting a gun was scary for me. I learned how to load it and everything. I was shaking so badly when i first held it in my hand. All I could think about was this you-tube video I saw of this girl shooting a huge gun and it flew back and hit her in the face. I was scared but I knew that this gun wasn't that big and it wasn't going to hit me. Apparently I hit the target well the first time but I didn't really care because guns scare me, and after about three shots I was so over that situation.
My sister got back from Ireland yesterday. I can't wait to spend some time with her. I'm going to wear my pretty new dress that my boyfriend got me to dinner with her tonight.
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| Tulsa is a melting pot of Indians, Black people, White people and Mexicans. It is no wonder that there have been some intense circumstances of turmoil in my city. I have chosen to post about the Tulsa Race Riot because I am from Tulsa. You and I both know that there are a lot of racial issues in the south and so I thought I might call this one to your attention because I have been around it for so long.
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/riot/riotlinks.html
This website offers articles from CNN, and links and pictures of books that people have written as a personal account of the Tulsa Race Riot.
It is important to read these personal accounts I think.
A million deaths is a just a statistic to most people, but one death is a tragedy. If you read the personal entries you get a much more personal feel for the citizens involved in this massacre. The Oklahoma City bombing is more well known around people my age but the Tulsa Race Riot killed many more people than the Oklahoma City bombing. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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I wanted to do something with the picture journals though. Like Post Secret or something along those lines. I really love those journals. Maybe like why people choose to write in paper journals ? What makes them better? I know we talked about it a little in class but I'm sure there's more to it. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I found this site online about people who make picture journals. They have no words or phrases to say what the pictures mean but they are supposed to represent how they are feeling each day of their life?
this one is of a girl who lives in germany I'm assuming because of her pictures, and she just takes self portraits of her self doing different things each day.
A few of the people have "goal" pictures. These are supposed to be pictures of things they want to do or be in their life. There isn't much writing on the website but its all pretty self explanitory if you ask me. I would consider this a journal, just a photographic one.
http://www.43things.com/person/Iveria/photos/613036
In consecration of this website, if I had to photo journalize myself today this would be it.
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| | Current Music: | The Flaming Lips- In the Morning of the Magicians | | Subject: | Whats been happnin! | | Time: | 02:15 pm |
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| Apparently I'm missing a journal entry for some time last week so here's the scoop.
I have been busy. Who hasn't been busy though right? Midterms have been preoccupying most of us I would assume. I've also been sick. Sick with some variation of the flu, or maybe I just have all the worst symptoms. I don't know whats wrong but I'm exhausted and have a lot of work to make up. When it rains it pours.
I got to go home last week. I shouldn't say "got to" though, because I would have much preferred to stay in Knoxville until summer if it weren't for these circumstances. One of my very best, most beautiful and special friends passed away last weekend. He was the most unique and beautiful person I have ever met in my entire life, and no one who knew him well would tell you any differently. He taught me so much about myself and he really impacted a lot of people. He was also my boyfriend for almost a year, but I feel that title might not due justice to how close we were as friends.
I would love to be able to talk about something different in this journal but all I think about is him. I was devistated last week, but after going home I realize that I'm Ok. I am not sad now, just feel like a little piece of me is gone. Unfortunately I am well versed in this mourning process and I know that I'll be fine in due time. It's just a shame. People always have regrets concerning the loss of someone dear to them "wish i could have told them this", "wish they would have seen that"... but this time I actually don't. Isaac and I had a very loving relationship even though we were about 1,000 miles apart and we have been broken up for almost 7 months. It is all unfortunate. The hardest thing for me to accept is that life can change so quickly and so spontaneously and many times it is not for the better.
But Isaac did basically force me to get matching tattoos with him? not something I'm proud of and its not his name or anything but I hated it. Until about 2 weeks ago. =) funny how that worked out.
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| Paper paper paper.
Personally I just like paper journals better. I like to think they are more expressive although I'm sure weblogs can be equally as expressive as paper journals if you take the time to figure out how to make them that way. I like paper journals to look back on, see handwriting, what kind of pictures I drew and other things that come only with physical contact from hand to written word. Although I think there are some perks to weblogs, I mentioned these in my previous journal entry. Most importantly, they help me to process what I'm writing more, rather than just spilling out random thoughts on to something. This can be good and bad though, sometimes all the random jumbled thoughts make something better than an organized thought. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Dispatch- The General | | Current Location: | bed =( | | Time: | 03:58 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) crappy |
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| I'm sick today which makes me sad because the weather is amazing. I really love the warm weather today although it does make me kind of nostalgic. I have really missed my friends lately. My sisters friends came in to town this weekend to surprise her for her birthday, I got to spend time with all of them which I think is what triggered my homesickness. I wish I knew what triggered my stomach sickness, this may help to explain why I threw up twice this morning.
I'm feeling better now, incase you were wondering.
Quasi-related to my previous topic:
I was having a long conversation with my cousin the other day about how people in Alaska don't see much sunlight, and they are depressed all the time. That is just so weird to me. My cousin was telling me about how some people have to sit on sun lamps until they feel better because being exposed to so much cold and darkness makes them depressed. I am so glad I live in the south =).
I found a pretty interesting article about how sex cures these conditions. haha.
http://media.www.pittnews.com/media/storage/paper879/news/2002/10/21/Opinions/Treat.Cold.Weather.Depression.With.Sex.Lots.Of.It-1796584.shtml
This is where I want to be right now/ what I want to be doing.....
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