One Word Only

Jesse posted a survey to my attention on the bulletin board. I answered it in my MySpace blog- the fun part was you're only allowed to give one word answers- no explanations.

That's something I want to learn to do in life all the time- stop feeling the need to give explanations. I've been trying to do it, but sometimes I forget. I should get a tattoo on my hand to remind myself.

The Outsiders

My favorite part- and I think most people's favorite part- is the scene around the Robert Frost poem Nothing Gold Can Stay...

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

And I wasn't too crazy about Tilly's The Freest Man, but for some reason, I've been listening to it on repeat. It's grown on me a lot.

I love when my weekends are full and I get to see lots of different friends and do a wide variety of things around the city. And yet still manage to get a ton of sleep, watch some great movies, cram in lots of reading time, make some art, and talk to Petey. Somehow, I feel like time slows down in the summer, and I can get a lot more packed into my minutes.

I Miss You But I Haven't Met You Yet.

I don't have a glamorous job that matters. I don't have a fabulous fashion sense. I don't know how to play any instruments. I can't sing. I can't write. I can't act. I can't cook. I can't draw. I can't paint. I can't sculpt. I'm not smart. I'm not funny. I'm not athletic.

I have no redeeming qualities and I'm not good at anything.

I watched The Baxter this weekend. It's another one of those Garden State Eternal Sunshine movies that I hate that I love. False hope movie. Because what happens when you're not even a Baxter? What's a grade below a Baxter?

Family

Main Entry: 1fam•i•ly
Pronunciation: 'fam-lE, 'fa-m&-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -lies
Etymology: Middle English familie, from Latin familia household (including servants as well as kin of the householder), from famulus servant
1 : a group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head : HOUSEHOLD
2 a : a group of persons of common ancestry : CLAN b : a people or group of peoples regarded as deriving from a common stock : RACE
3 a : a group of people united by certain convictions or a common affiliation : FELLOWSHIP b : the staff of a high official (as the President)
4 : a group of things related by common characteristics: as a : a closely related series of elements or chemical compounds b : a group of soils that have similar profiles and include one or more series c : a group of related languages descended from a single ancestral language
5 a : the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their own or adopted children; also : any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional family b : spouse and children
6 a : a group of related plants or animals forming a category ranking above a genus and below an order and usually comprising several to many genera b in livestock breeding (1) : the descendants or line of a particular individual especially of some outstanding female (2) : an identifiable strain within a breed
7 : a set of curves or surfaces whose equations differ only in parameters
8 : a unit of a crime syndicate (as the Mafia) operating within a geographical area