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Maybe One Day I'll Get My Act Together

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:25:23 GMT

But it's not likely.

Pg. 25, The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall:

"Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago. Everything is changing. (...) I noticed how the shadow of a telegraph pole would inch between the gardens of two houses across the street- from 152 to the garden of 150- over the course of several hours, from lunchtime into evening. After watching this a few times I did the maths: the shadow movement from one garden to the next meant that both houses, the telegraph pole, the street, all of us, had traveled one thousand, one hundred and sixty miles around the earth with the turning of the planet. We'd also traveled about seventy-six thousand miles through space around the sun in the same period and much much further as part of the wider spiralling of the galaxy. And nobody noticed a thing. There is no stillness, only change. Yesterday's here is not today's here. Yesterday's here is somewhere in Russia, in a wilderness in Canada, a deep blue nowhere out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It's behind the sun, it's in deep space, hundreds of thousands, millions of miles left behind. We can never wake up in the same places we went to sleep in. Our place in the universe, the universe itself, all changes faster and faster by the second. Every one of us standing on this planet, we're all moving forwards and we're never ever coming back. The truth is, stillness is an idea, a dream. It's the thought of friendly, welcoming lights still shining in all the places we've been forced to abandon."

I don't think anyone could have put it better. Read the book.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:58:11 GMT

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Sun, 27 May 2007 16:06:46 GMT

graduation?

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:39:50 GMT

prom prom prom prom prom prom.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:09:56 GMT

Time is passing so slowly.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:34:58 GMT

Life goes on.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:14:47 GMT

I'm pretty sure no one even reads xanga anymore but I'm also pretty sure I don't care.

All I wanted to say is that life is really good right now. I know what college I'm going to, I already have a (n amazing) roommate, I don't have to take any finals, I have amazing friends, Cameron comes home tomorrow and Christmas break is coming up in 2 weeks. Where's the bad? Nowhere, my friend, nowhere.

Aaaaand that is all.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:40:28 GMT

Today when I was on my street about to turn into my driveway there was a squirrel in my way. Squirrels usually run one way or the other (usually back the wrong way) if you get close enough so I slowed down and sort of inched up on it. The squirrel still wouldn't budge- it just sat their perched like a prairie dog staring at me. I just wrote it off as another suicidal squirrel too dumb to haul its squirrly butt out of the road, until I started to drive around it. I saw there was another dead squirrel lying on the ground next to it. The living squirrel was just sitting there with the dead one. It was almost like it was protecting it or making sure its body wasn't run over again or something. How strange.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:35:22 GMT

Subway Jared is getting fat again.

Friday, September 08, 2006

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:08:46 GMT

Lonely, lonely, that is me.