February 2010
24 posts
January 2010
30 posts
all there is.
Best feeling in the world: running with some vague distance ahead of me and it’s starting to get dark so that slowly my feet are taking over the movement: I’m not looking at the trail because my body is doing the balancing on the snow, rocks, mud etc. In the dusk you can see it start snowing on the flatirons, which are turning purple like the sky, and then you can see them anymore...
I love living with people from North Carolina… I’m sitting in my room and can hear someone playing the Avett Brothers upstairs, and an older CD at that. Feels like home!
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY
But I’m sitting in a room in my new house that is really sunny, and makes the stone floors really warm. Feels good. Dog at my feet asleep we are about to go for a walk.
I’m in love.
I just read a really good short story/mini book by E.B. White called “Here is New York” that I want to pass along to my friends in NYC because I think they may get big off it (especially...
I can’t wait for all of the open space trails in Boulder to dry up because I am SO TIRED of 1) feeling like I am running twice the distance I am actually running and 2) feeling like I am wearing my hiking boots, or something heavier probably, because so much mud is sticking to the bottom of my shoes.
The fun part is coming home and having mud covering almost every surface of my body.
Wake...
Reading an essay about the sublime (“A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”), and listening to my favorite Radiohead album, Kid A. MY HEAD IS GOING TO EXPLODE.
I would try to get into it, but it’s just all so vast.
ha
haha
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Anyways. I am too full of thoughts to sleep. So I think I am going to art it up for a while, finish the...
HEY:
GET OUT OF MY HEAD.
Today I took Teva to the dog park, all the way across town to North Boulder because the one that is two blocks away from my house is closed for renovations all Spring. It was, however, an act of fate because we happened to run into her brother, Rocky. We came across another golden that looked EXACTLY like her, and his owner and I fairly quickly figured out that they were from the same litter. Not...
I hate moments when I forget that life is anything more than simple beauty.
My classes seem like they are going to be unbelievable this semester. A lot of writing, a lot of science, actually, in the context of my English studies. Last night I read an article entitled “Turner Translates Carnot” about artistic interpretations of complex scientific theories (long before they were mathematically...
I have not been able to breath through my nose for the past few days. The good news about this cold is I have been using it as an excuse to go to bed by 9:00 or so every night. Heaven.
long runs
When my alarm went off at 7:30 I laid in bed and said “If it is warmer than 15 degrees out I will go for my run.” Walked downstairs and my dad was sitting in the sunroom reading. 14 degrees. I sat down and ate breakfast with him, and by the time I had eaten and had my running clothes on it was 18 degrees. Booyah. I have to say, the patagonia cold weather running tights that I agonized...
The one time a year that Lauren, Evan and I get to hang out happened yesterday, that was awesome. (Though really sad that since we all left for college I think I have only seen him three times or less). I guess that what happens when you live in a triangle of Washington DC-NYC-Boulder. Bleh. Anyways. It was good yesterday.
I went back to my old high school today to to talk to one of my old...
If you want to go let's go right now
Looking forward to today:
distance run, meeting dad in Greensboro for lunch, meeting Johnny to hang out until MELLOWMUSHROOM with a collection of Jonas fellows, my cousin and her roommate and Lindsey. And then to the moon or something I suppose.
Ok let’s get the dog walked beeccaauusee If I don’t get my butt out of this warm chair in the sunroom none of this is going to...
Ok, I admit it. I’m feeling the...
oh yeah:
Last night hanging out at the lake: full moon reflected in the water, but with the silhouettes of twigs across the reflection, and a star reflected nearby. MAGIC.
Hey, I'll admit it:
I can be sentimental as fuck. So last night was good SO GOOD. Staying up till way too late with Jamie and Ben and it felt so much like it has in the past, down to Jamie and Ben kindheartedly ganging up on me as things have always been since what feels like forever, though in the past six months there has been some intangible rift in the force, in some of these friendships that mean the world to...
text message conversation with Matt on his efforts...
Matt: What is a branch? And what happens to Caddy? And how many times do I have read Benjy's section before I understand it?
Me: A branch is a Southern term for a creek. Caddy gets pregnant outside of marriage, gets married to try and cover it up, and then gets caught and divorced when the months don't add up. Read the whole book and then read Benjy's section again.
Matt: I thought something like that happened to Caddy. I can't tell who's black. Some of them are but not all of them. And some of them are related.
Me: [blah blah explains Luster, T.P, etc.]
Matt: I'm about to read June 2 1910
Me: Ok. That's probably the hardest section. There are a lot of literary and academic references that make it hard as butts to understand. But the writing is brilliant.
Matt: F. Why couldn't your favorite book be Harry Potter?
DANNG I love that book. Makes me want to read it right now. And I love Matt.
I think the best way to sum up 2009 would be to call it a year of transitions. I lost (and shed) some major aspects of my life, including a hobby (or passion) that has defined me for as long as I can remember. I have not ridden a horse in six months…I don’t think there is any point in my life before this moment that I could have made that statement. I went through on of the most...
Has to be one of my all-time favorite songs.
