urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight Ready or not, here comes life. Miss Wright 2008-06-23T00:47:37Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:221852 2008-06-23T00:47:37Z 2008-06-23T00:47:37Z Mikey and I got married yesterday (June 21st, 2008)! Everything went great despite the make-up person being an hour late and the 90+ degree heat. Even our dogs behaved perfectly. I will try to post a few pictures and some more details sometime soon. We're off to the Meditteranean on our honeymoon for a cruise/stay in Spain and will be gone about 4 weeks. :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:221466 2008-04-01T03:10:23Z 2008-04-01T03:10:23Z So my monotonous yet stressful life of teaching was excited tonight by a visitor. My neighbor Laurie's chicken decided to pay a visit to my tiny backyard. I came home and saw it fly up onto my fence as Luna, Terra and I walked up and I figured it'd go home of its own accord. I took the excited puppies inside and forgot about it. An hour later the puppies wanted to go out. I let them figuring they had to go bathroom. They started barking like they always do when they go out. Soon after, they were still barking so I called the dogs inside then went out to see what was going on. One of my other neighbors was in my yard and told my the puppies had chased a chicken under the tarps where we keep our kayak. The neighbor was sure Luna had killed it, but based on the fact there were relatively few feathers around I figured she hadn't gotten a good hold of it and the chicken had gotten away. <br />I walked over to another neighbor's house (the one who I knew to own chickens) and regretfully told her that I had one of her chickens trapped in my yard and that my dogs may have injured her. Though I have dealt with chickens when I was growing up, I wasn't about to chase this one out of hiding when it could be a vicious rooster for all I knew. She came over to my yard and we uncovered the poor shaking hen who was still panting with fright. She should make a full recovery though Laurie has a feeling she won't be laying eggs for a few days. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:215999 2006-06-20T00:18:37Z 2006-06-20T00:18:37Z I graduated this past weekend.<br />I turned 21 the weekend before that.<br />I'm finally back in Morgan Hill, unpacking and enjoying not having anything in the world that I have to do. <br /><br />In the words of my Outdoor Adventures group, I'm...<br />~Livin' the Life~ urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:201974 2005-11-05T09:44:07Z 2005-11-05T09:44:07Z She is a little more gung-ho about it than me, but I'll give you her opinion straight up anyway. <br /><br />"Pride and Prejudice is GOD. If you don’t see it, I will hunt you down and force you to go watch it. There is this one scene, WOW. The whole thing is like CRACK!!! I think you get my point. That is all. 9:33PM Nov 4th, 2005"<br />~Emily<br /><br />Gotta love free sneak peaks. The director was there and talked to us a little. He's a cool guy, I hope he appreciated the incredibly enthusiastic audience response. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:195166 2005-08-14T15:52:50Z 2005-08-14T15:52:50Z My roomate, Meg, and her new boyfriend David are so damn cute together. <br /><br />For Meg being someone who's never really had a boyfriend before, she sure is good at being a wonderful girlfriend. I only wish they would feel comfortable enough to sleep in our bedroom instead of out on the couch. I appreciate having the room to myself, but they really would NOT bug me being here, and that couch is NOT really big enough to sleep on for two people almost 6 feet tall. How they managed is beyond me. lol. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:167212 2005-05-05T04:43:34Z 2005-05-05T04:46:56Z And since I type 'just' as 'jsut' every single time, I call it my malopropism and I'm not going to bother to fix it anymore. I wish I had my doggie here with me now. My only doggie... Note to self, need to make cool pictures with weekend with photoshop. I can do so much better than these simple touchups on this picture. Something to look forward to, but what to do? A collage, a portrait, integrated pictures...? So many things to daydream about when I should be working. <br /><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/mistdelight/MegHoldingBoneCut.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:119167 2005-02-27T03:48:06Z 2005-02-27T03:48:06Z <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/mistdelight/dolphin.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:117961 2005-02-22T16:17:32Z 2005-02-22T16:17:32Z I went on another OA trip this weekend, snowshoeing again, but with participants instead of with the other guides. Guides vs participants and the trip becomes at the opposite end of the spectrum on my enjoyment level. Granted, there were a ton of key moments that still make me giggle, like getting the van stuck or getting a mile ride on the back of some snow mobile, but overall the trip was incredibly draining and I'm exhausted from it. <br />Day One: I arrive on time to pick up site. Four of the participants don't show up till 40 minutes later, Thomas, Michael, Chris, and Scotty. And I'll finish this later as I have to go to class now. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:117673 2005-02-18T07:06:40Z 2005-02-18T07:06:40Z If you woke up and I was in bed with you, what would be your first thought?<br /><br />(Now post this in your LJ and find out what mine would be). urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:117459 2005-02-17T05:54:08Z 2005-02-17T05:54:08Z My english class is dismal for me, especially since we're doing poems now and Shakespear later, so the B- on my last paper kinda hurt, and made me work a bit harder on this next paper due tomorrow. So, I decided to ask any of you with some poetry experience or just plain time on your hands to take a look at my finished paper, including the prompt and poem it's based off of and tell me any significant changes I could make, including grammer, to make it better. <br /><a name="cutid1"></a> <br />Amanda Wright<br />February 17, 2005<br />Paper Two<br />TA: Tom O’Donnell<br /><br />Not actually “In the Lover’s ear alone”<br /> The speaker of “Strange fits of passion I have known,” by William Wordsworth, feels the intense passion he has for his lover, Lucy, is such a way that only those who have been or are currently in love should attempt to understand it. This is declared in the first stanza of his poem: “And I will dare to tell, But in the Lover’s ear alone, What once to me befell” (2-4). Contrary to the poem’s introductory warning, I believe it does effectively detail the speaker’s sentiment of love to all his readers by means of the interconnections between the natural world, imagination, and death in his verse. The natural world gives the readers a connection to something they are familiar with. This draws them more deeply into the poetry and the passionate emotion while the imagination of the speaker, as a meaningful expression of that imagery, allows readers to question if his perception of the relationship is entirely realistic. Nature and imagination both pave the way for the concluding concept of the poem, the renowned notion of death. The realistic imagery gives way to questionable imagination overall which guides the readers’ understanding concerning both the speaker’s considerable love for Lucy and her possible death at the conclusion of the poem. <br /> The natural world is something that both readers and authors can identify with from personal experience, and this is something the speaker of the poem perhaps unintentionally uses to allow all people, lovers or not, to understand the intensity of his passion for Lucy. Wordsworth’s use of such natural images as “wide lea,” “orchard-plot,” and the simile “Fresh as a rose in June,” allows for a pleasant picture to be painted of a boundless, beautiful future ahead for the couple (10,13,6). The third quote also depicts Lucy as associated with natural environment. This better identifies the reader with her and with the speaker’s passion for her, as they are both comparable to a person’s passion for nature. <br /> The manner in which he was riding his horse through the fields on familiar paths and at a hastened pace at night shows both that the couple’s relationship has endured over time and that the speaker is still eager to see his beloved. His eagerness could be based upon not having seen her in awhile or from his great amount of passion for her. Both explanations help explain his love and the conclusion of the poem when he panics that she may be dead before he got to her cottage. From all the imagery in the poem, including the description of his ride to his lover’s cottage, it becomes apparent that the speaker’s imagination may be overstepping reality when he interjects the phrase “In one of those sweet dreams I slept” (17). This leads the reader to wonder to what degree the speakers love has been deluded due to the passage of time or the images of the night.<br /> The relationship between the speaker and Lucy may indeed be partially imaginative- though his heart’s passion for her is to him entirely real and the reader is able to feel this incredible passion whether it is factually or erroneously based. While the first line, “Strange fits of passion,” introduces how this infatuation is not altogether ordinary and therefore perhaps partially unreal, the later imagery and actions of the poem are a solid basis for proving it does in some form exist (1). <br /> “What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a Lover’s head!” exemplifies the speaker’s strong reaction to the imagery surrounding him; especially to the descending moon (25-26). By relating the scenery with his apparent emotions and imagination, the reader is able to understand the internal emotions the speaker is feeling as well as the importance of his struggle to see Lucy at this late hour of night: his feelings as well as his horse “never stopped” or faltered (22). His continuous and sharp watch of the progression of the moon symbolizes his lasting concern about his lover and gives the best indication in the poem as to what his passion truly feels like: unwavering and strong. The readers can take the imagination he perceives about the landscape around him into account as well when regarding the factuality of the relationship he is involved with and decide for themselves what is real and what is false about it. Based upon the imaginative thoughts and figurative language concerning his travel to his lover’s cottage, the reader is given a solid basis upon which to judge his final statement concerning if Lucy is indeed dead or not. <br />The moon is another relation to nature which is undoubtedly meant to be a symbol of Lucy’s life. The speaker’s statement, “And all the while my eyes I kept On the descending moon” perfectly describes his everlasting love for Lucy to the readers (19-20). The word “descending” and the earlier word “sinking,” both describing the moon, are indications to the readers that Lucy’s life may be fading, and it allows for them to determine for themselves whether or not she will still be there to greet him once he arrives at her cottage (20, 15). For him, it is only when finally the “the bright moon dropped” that his imagination is allowed to completely take over his realistic perception of the natural world. When the moon finally does drop “behind the cottage roof,” he finally becomes fully aware, due to his imagination, that it is a symbol of Lucy. The loss of the moonlight therefore symbolizes to him the eternal loss of his lover (23). Using the poem, there is no way to decipher how she might have died, but owing to the comparison of another of Wordsworth’s poems, "A slumber did my spirit seal,” I believe she did either at the conclusion of “Strange fits of passion have I known” or anytime prior to the poem’s final stanza. In “A slumber did my spirit seal” it was stated “She seem'd a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years.” Seeing that these two poems were written the same year 1,2, by the same author, and detailing a similar love for a woman that was not within reach, I conclude that they must be about the loss of the same lover, which affirms that in the end of “Strange fits of passion have I known” she did indeed die. <br />Death brings a feeling of finality to both these poems, and being something that almost all people can relate to, it gives the last indication for the readers of the intensity of the speaker’s love due to the extreme pain which he feels when he believes Lucy may have died. “O mercy!” is only a fragment of the gut wrenching pain he is experiencing upon his realization “If Lucy should be dead” (27, 28).<br /> Imagery of the natural world, glances into the speakers imagination, and the likelihood of death give the poem “Strange fits of passion have I known” a vivid description of an emotional love from the perspective of one man who’s passion seems to have consumed his whole psyche. The bright moon descending includes the essence of the poem; at first sight it portrays only nature, yet in reality it sparks imagination for the man and more importantly symbolizes Lucy’s death. The description of the natural world, imagination, and death, are the keys for the reader to unlock the poem and understand the depth of emotion hiding in it. The three conceptions are completely dependant on each other in the poem to prove their point concerning the strength of the emotion of love and to aid in interpreting the poem as a whole.<br /><br />1- <a href="http://www.tresser.com/poems.htm">http://www.tresser.com/poems.htm</a> <br />2- <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww150.html">http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww150.html</a><br /><br />PROMPT: “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known” is a companion piece that Wordsworth wrote to “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal.” We discussed the latter poem not only in terms of the speaker’s frustrated desire for his deceased lover, but we also began to make an argument about the ways in which the speaker’s reaction to her death brings about a new relationship between him and the whole universe. Analyze the relationship proposed in “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known” between the natural world, imagination, and death. Your thesis should do at least two things: first, reveal the connections among these concepts in this poem (and be sure that you define these concepts in terms that you can derive from this text); and, second, disclose your own opinion on the poem’s position. Do you buy the poem’s arguments? Remember to avoid generalization and to support all your claims with textual evidence.<br /><br />STRANGE fits of passion have I known:<br />And I will dare to tell,<br />But in the Lover's ear alone,<br />What once to me befell.<br /><br />When she I loved looked every day<br />Fresh as a rose in June,<br />I to her cottage bent my way,<br />Beneath an evening-moon.<br /><br />Upon the moon I fixed my eye,<br />All over the wide lea; 10<br />With quickening pace my horse drew nigh<br />Those paths so dear to me.<br /><br />And now we reached the orchard-plot;<br />And, as we climbed the hill,<br />The sinking moon to Lucy's cot<br />Came near, and nearer still.<br /><br />In one of those sweet dreams I slept,<br />Kind Nature's gentlest boon!<br />And all the while my eyes I kept<br />On the descending moon. 20<br /><br />My horse moved on; hoof after hoof<br />He raised, and never stopped:<br />When down behind the cottage roof,<br />At once, the bright moon dropped.<br /><br />What fond and wayward thoughts will slide<br />Into a Lover's head!<br />"O mercy!" to myself I cried,<br />"If Lucy should be dead!" <br /><br />W. Wordsworth <br />"A slumber did my spirit seal" <br />A SLUMBER did my spirit seal; <br /> I had no human fears: <br />She seem'd a thing that could not feel <br /> The touch of earthly years. <br /> <br />No motion has she now, no force; 5 <br /> She neither hears nor sees; <br />Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course <br /> With rocks, and stones, and trees. <br /><br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:116582 2005-02-14T18:18:06Z 2005-02-14T18:18:06Z Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! <br />I made all my roomies, all four of them, a heart shaped cookie, and I'd do the same for you, if you were here, but too bad you're not. I love you all. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:116249 2005-02-13T12:07:06Z 2005-02-13T12:07:06Z To anyone as unfortunate as I am to suffer from cronic yet unknown skin allergies, let me reiterate that white hot showers <br />can give you the hottest orgasm like feeling that you will EVER feel in a shower setting- unless you have a VERY hot BF or GF and a shower the size of Texas. Suffering for hours on end and then I get in the shower and **sigh**. Ahhhhhhhh. Especially at 4 AM. <br />PS A very happy birthday to my friend Katherine who just turned 21 and whose party I just got back from. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:116209 2005-02-13T06:40:04Z 2005-02-13T06:40:04Z <a href="http://www.killsometime.com/Audio/Funny-Audio.asp?audio=Husband-Cheated">http://www.killsometime.com/Audio/Funny-Audio.asp?audio=Husband-Cheated</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:115849 2005-02-13T06:27:51Z 2005-02-13T12:00:11Z Something too classicly hilarious NOT to pass on. Contribution of a journal of a friend of Mikey's.<br />"Right, so Thursday night I went over to Friend 1's after eating dinner at home after guitar, and Friend 2, Friend 3 and I had lovely dinner convo about discussions of oral sex and whipped cream at the hospital, and how Friend 2's Lithuanian friend said it was ironic that we have the term "cock" for a man's penis because they have the term "chicken" for vagina in her country. How funny. Friend 2 and some of his co-workers were having fun discussing oral sex and she got lost in the convo for a while and she said something about gravy being a good thing since it has lower calories, but who the hell cares about calories when you're in a sexual heat??? Seriously. Oh, and later Friend 2l referred to oral as "Chicken Lickin'" OMG, it was sooo bad. This over dinner. I love my new house, lol. I laughed my ass off."<br />Wow. I learned something new tonight. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:115458 2005-02-12T22:36:23Z 2005-02-12T22:36:23Z Selfishness is not a trait that people either working with children or in a leadership position should display. God knows we all feel selfish at times in these roles, but not doing anything selfish is the key part. <br />I got my butt out of bed at 5:35 this morning to help take about 70 kids and 10 parents on a whale watching trip with OA for a program called "gear up" which takes minority middle school and high school kids on trip rock climbing, backpacking, whale watching, skiing, etc. The day went pretty well at first. We got to the school on time, got the kids their muffins and juice for breakfast and got them on the two charter buses. We got to the ocean, played ice breakers which they really seemed to enjoy. my group even got into a hot potato game, which I didn't expect was something their age group would do. Once on the boat though, things went sour pretty fast. The 'gear up' leader immediately felt sick to her stomach and complained of dry heaving, though I never saw her looking sick at all, just cranky and whiney. A few kids threw up, but oddly enough most were still in good spirits regardless. We saw two whales spouting, which was cool, but soon after this event, when the whales were still rather far away. The leader, named Dr. O, put up such a fuss that everyone felt sick that she lead to the boat being turned around. Once back, she told all the kids that some people didn't feel well and the situation wasn't really safe and not everyone was having fun. All of which was fudged. She felt sick. Not one of the other kids so much as told anyone they felt ill, just threw up over the side and went back to their friends. <br />The day wasn't a total bust, but there were more low points than that :( which aren't important. I just feel bad for the kids rather frustrating morning when instead of 2 hours on the water they barely got 45 minutes and only two whales when they were supposed to see a bunch. Bummer. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:115212 2005-02-09T23:20:42Z 2005-02-09T23:20:42Z Just a drop of chocolate syrup in the bottom of a fresh cup of coffee and my 5 eesay prompts don't look half so bad. But either way it's going to be a long night. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:114477 2005-02-08T08:36:58Z 2005-02-08T23:23:43Z We finished watching sex in the city tonight. All 6 seasons dusted. As to what we're going to entertain ourselves with next, I don't know. It was highly entertaining though, the last season was by far the best, as it hit on the reality of life instead of the reality of relationships. Though I guess that's how life goes, first we only focus on the things like love and relationships, until life actually starts and we realize there's so much more than those things- so much more. But dude, thinking only abouot relationships is so much easier than thinking about life. Every time I think about life I start to give myself an anxiety attack. The sad thing is, that's not a joke. I can do so many things in a day, but when it comes to working towards something real I hate my life and want to give up and hit the sheets. For instance, whether I want to apply for education grad school or optometry school, either way I need to decide NOW. Applications go in ASAP and I haven't even started looking at the processes or thinking about taking the damn tests, tests I can't even think of the name of now but know they aren't the MCATs, thank God. But if I don't do all this NOW, then why the fuck am I trying to graduate early, should I give up that idea and plan on taking three years and a quarter, maybe a quarter abroad? It'd give me a few more months to do anything about this stuff, but what would I do the rest of the year? Would I take it as a break? Would I go with that rolling admitance and start that next January? Even before all that, can I even handle the rest of college. I got an F on my bio class midterm, the only midterm for that class. If I don't do really well on the final, I'll have to retake the class, and as hard as I did honestly study for that test, maybe I'm not really a bio person at heart. I should have headed my fear of needles a long time ago and done soc. But I know that's not me either. <br />I'm not like that. One choice? I couldn't even stick with one major hobby. I had to try everything, camping rock climbing, horseback riding, boy surfing (riding), soccer, volleyball, cross country, needle work, reading, movies, the brief TV phase, DDR... etc. To ask me to pick one major and one career for life is absurd. I'm not that passionate about anything. I'm not that opinionated about anything. Well, except maybe that life's not fair, but now I'm jsut whineing.<br />Is it sad that right now the only job I'm actually interested in is working for a planned parenthood or equivalent clinic? But I can't do that since I can't drive to one to volunteer, and I don't have a nursing degree nor will I anytime soon due to the needle phobia problem, so I can't be one of their nurse type people. <br />ALl I know is I want to help people, and right now, from the perspective of myself and my friends and my era, that seems a great place to help. Being a teacher, you're trying to help those who don't want any help, often. PP is for people already asking for help, and maybe I could help them. And for some reason, that seems like a type of job I could handle, stressful or not. I'm so tired of being competitive, that seems like a place I wouldn't have to be. <br />If there is no hurry in life, why can't I try as many jobs as I did hobbies? Oh yes, becuase once you hit an age you don't have time anymore to experiment. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:114335 2005-02-08T01:36:06Z 2005-02-08T01:38:53Z First off, four day weekends are so wonderful that I really forget how I got along without them. Forget the fact that two days a week absolutely suck in comparison, those four days are still great.<br />Last night mikey and I got off our butts and put away the Sex in the CIty episodes and went camping. Not to far away, nothing too fancy, but it was still great. We went to Malibu State Park where the price was a little steep, but the place was gorgeous, we even put the tent on GRASS which made it so soft and my tent didn't even get dirty despite forgetting a tarp. The most memorable moments were the gorgeous sunset from the highway, Mikey spilling half the spegetti while draining it, and snuggling up for a night of absolute SILENCE after the last few nights being filled with more Meg, Michael, Emily, and Dandan laughter and giggling. If only it were cheaper I'd go every weekend. I too much enjoy my alone time to be such a city girl. Just think of how it feels when you climb a mountain and reach the top. Yes, half the awe is of the view, but isn't part of the feeling from the enjoyment of literally GETTING AWAY from it all. <br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/mistdelight/Sunset1.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:113968 2005-02-06T04:39:07Z 2005-02-06T04:39:07Z So, continuing with a list of my fine buys today and my wonderful day after that.<br />REI- got there at 8:30, place opened at 10. Place in line, about 60th out of 250 total. <br />Bought:<br />Gaters- boot coverers for when walking in snow- $7.xx instead of $40<br />Booties- boots for wearing in a snow camp environment, like slippers for the snow, so warm- $6.xx instead of $36<br />Bortex Hiking Boots- to relpace my crappy snow boots barrowed from Tina that are two big and give me blisters- $29.xx instead of $189<br />Cooking Set- plate, bowl, skillet, cup for camping- $6.xx instead of $25<br />Backpack for Mikey and My climbing gear- $20.xx instead of $60<br />Post REI-<br />went climbing on the real rocks at Stony Point north of Westwood, LA at the porn capitol of the world (the city it's in). Not porn sited, jsut a little too much of Mikeys' white upper thighs while he was climbing ;) . We only set one route, a half crask half face climb, which we're not sure on the exact rating. Nevertheless, all of us, Mikey, Michelle, Cora, Roy (OA people) all did it and were challenged by it. It felt wonderufl to shimmy up it. I swear I use my butt more than any other body part when climbing, especially on cracks. I just put feet on one side as much as possible and butt on the other, push and up I go. Awesome.<br />So now I'm just chilling and exhausted and full after a huge 8" $1.75 burrito. And every time I think about my warm snuggly booties which will save my tiny feet from creezing in a couple weeks when I'm snow cmaping again I get all happy and a huge smile on my face. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:113698 2005-02-06T04:03:33Z 2005-02-06T04:25:09Z totally random, but quite interesting if you're in the out of it mood i'm in.<br /><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/tiggagator_9203/44227.html">http://www.livejournal.com/users/tiggagator_9203/44227.html</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:113525 2005-02-06T01:33:57Z 2005-02-06T01:33:57Z I got gortex hiking boots in exactly my size for $30!!!!! REI as-is sales rocked, more later. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:113370 2005-02-04T23:52:28Z 2005-02-04T23:52:28Z if you read this,<br /><br />even if i don't speak to you often,<br /><br />you must post a memory of me.<br /><br />it can be anything you want-- good or bad,<br /><br />just as long as it happened.<br /><br />then post this to your journal and see what people remember about you... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:112825 2005-02-04T01:21:34Z 2005-02-04T01:21:34Z The silence after the storm. Two midterms down, two to go. And I'm on my own feet again with just a little sleep deprivedness which I'm sure a nap with MIkey will cure soon enough. I'm definately not going to make it through his movie. I"ll try though! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:112142 2005-02-02T04:39:02Z 2005-02-02T04:39:02Z It's official, Mkey now virtually lives in my appartment, inthe family room with the girls, and I live in my room, alone, studying. The study breaks are great but it's sooo not fair! Damn fucking midterm that I'm goign to fail regardless cuz I just don't give a shit about school anymore! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:berrydelight:111846 2005-01-31T18:52:08Z 2005-01-31T18:52:08Z Dance Techno Mix Pictures are my solitude<br />Pictures are my comfort<br />Looking at them makes my life no longer revolve around my sorrows,<br />It revolves around my joyous moments.<br /><br />My time with friends,<br />My time with family,<br />My poor pets- most of whom I’ll never see again.<br /><br />The world of make-believe is a tease.<br /><br />To go to the land of images and memories is almost wicked<br />It makes you believe that life can repeat itself in reality<br />Since it already does so in one’s imagination. <br /><br />And when you start to stare at these beautiful moments<br />The real world is forgotten<br />And what’s actually beautiful in that world<br />Is forgotten too.