i’m free/free fallin’
Tonight I will be up the entire night, fighting sleep and the usual distractions (AIM, weblogs, and midnight snacks), and tomorrow I need to make sure I make it on time to my 8:30 a.m. class. Tomorrow I also need to go in to see one of my professors during her office hours. […]

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Highlight from Tuesday: Spending two hours of our break between classes at the public park.
We sat on a dry patch of green grass, in the wan afternoon sunshine, discussing witticisms and woes, primarily academic-related, because, let’s face it, our life has been consumed by nothing but university courses for the last three-and-a-half years. Somayya […]

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Someone once accused me of overusing the word “beautiful.” I didn’t ask for further clarification, so I’m not quite sure what exactly she meant by “overusing,” unless she thought that I throw around the word “beautiful” so much that some of its meaning chips off. But I don’t know how that’s possible, and so I […]

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hills of flame
I stepped out onto the front porch this morning, and realized the world smells like autumn now.
Like crispy red-orange leaves and smoky bonfires.
Nice.

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