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12.28.2010

Just let me run. Just let me love.

Love Affair by Copeland

Fell past a cheekbone hill
To a piece of her floor
The hope of the world
in an awkward spill

Oh she'd lie on her bed
and stare into harsh white light
and think that her heart's not right

'Cause love took her hand like a thief
took her heart like a robber
and the feelings that scare her
become her relief

Just let me run where I want to run
Just let me love who I want.
Just let me run where I want to run
Just let me love who I want.

In a flash a heart is slain
you have to ask in all this pain
Was your heart too soft?
Was your love in vain?

Was your kiss too weak?
Were your eyes too tired?
And much too young to be in love
Much too young to be in love

Just let me run where I want to run
Just let me love who I want.
Just let me run where I want to run
Just let me love who I want.

There are no rules for this love
Just keep your head and don't give up
Like all the fools who play it smart.
Lose your head just for your heart, just for your heart.

12.13.2010

More musical usage of Blogger

Okay, so here's the deal. I love 8tracks.com. They have some really awesome mixes, especially ones I like to fall asleep to. However, the playing of music doesn't just stop when that mix is over, it goes to the next random mix 8tracks decides to go to. This makes for waking up in the middle of the night to some very bizarre music. BUT. If I embed the mixes in my blog, it DOES stop. So... Here we are. Musical blog #2. Maybe you'll enjoy it as much as I do.

12.07.2010

Using Blogger for Musical Purposes

I'll explain the title of this blog at a later date. Hopefully this actually works. Right now, I just need to go to sleep...

11.18.2010

True Soul Mates...?

“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, and make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life.”

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Huh. Maybe...

Stolen from one of my favorite blogs currently, goodmorningandgoodnight.com.

11.16.2010

My Senior Year Bucket / Tassel List

I am seriously lacking motivation these days. Motivation for anything really. Maybe it's because it's because this has been a ridiculously long and stressful semester. Maybe it's the weather. Maybe it's the time change. I don't know what it is, but apathy is steadily gaining ground in my psyche, and this is very disturbing to me. Apathy is society's worst enemy. I rail against the apathetic nature of some of my peers. Yet, here I am, infected as they are.

So I'm going to try something to hopefully wake me up, get me back to myself and back on track. Rhya Moffitt, I'm using you for this one. In my stupor of apathy, I completely forgot about your tassel list until I was about to search for "senior year motivation strategies" and "senior year bucket list" came up before I could finish typing. Obviously I had to look at that, and I was kind of excited about some of the things that the person was going to try to do before they graduated. I thought to myself, "I need a Bucket List!" Then, I remembered. I had one, already started for me even! So I'm starting with (most of) your ideas, I've added a few of my own, but I need all of you guys to help me.

What should I do before I graduate from college? Here is what I've started with:

Ask someone to the Christmas Banquet.
Go to a midnight premiere of a movie.
Get a piercing or a tattoo or a funky hair streak.
Eat lots of Lucky Charms and oranges in Rhya Moffitt's memory.
Have movie night with Ashley Butler all the time.
Steal a book from the Library.
Swim or wade in a campus fountain.
Do something awesome for spring break.
Go to a Pro Musica concert.
Be spontaneous, all the time.
Go to an Acro show.
See how much you can steal from the cafe at once.
Go to Midnight Breakfast, dressed up, at Sonic.
Graduate.
Befriend someone unexpected.
Perform a random act of kindness for someone you don't particularly like.
Take a DC Duck Boat tour.
Fly a kite on the Mall.
Go to a rally and make a sign.
Run to the Washington Monument from school.
Watch every HP movie or every LOTR movie or Charlie Brown movie or Land Before Time movie in one day. Or do both.
Go to a Supreme Court hearing thing.
Buy a random item of clothing off someone. Not at a high price.
Play Washington D.C. Monopoly on the Mall.
Bike more of the C&O Canal (can't do all of it Mom, sorry.).
Buy an all-day metro pass and ride one of the lines end to end. Or don't buy an all-day pass, ride all of the metro in one day, and see how much it actually costs if you get out of the metro in the same place you got on.
Stay up all night doing something ridiculous with friends.
Finish (or restart because I think eventually I was persuaded to throw the original away after it lived in my trunk for 6 months...) jaimenudd and my Duct Tape Rainbow poster. Do you know, I still have a really little bit of yellow and green duct tape from that?!
Invent a recipe (dish, dessert, drink, etc.).
Paint something (canvas, cupboard, cup, etc.). [Trying to keep the alliteration...]
Take more photos.
Play [more] basketball.

I'm going to post this to my blog as well, and I'm going to try to keep record of what I've done and the stories attached to them. I need some accountability until I get my self-accountability and self-motivation back in working order.

11.15.2010

Dear Reader...

From dearblankpleaseblank.com:

Dear Reader,

Please do me right now. On the kitchen table. In your bed. On the couch. Hell, I'll even take the floor in front of the T.V. I don't care, I just need you to do me like I've never been done before.

Sincerely,

Your Homework

Motivation, Motivation, wherefore art thou, O Motivation?!