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This is an apple. Actually it's a hipster apple. The color swatch I used for it was entitled "hipster life."  Basically this apple describes my life right now. Jobless (meh!), wears wannabe accessories, colored from the sun, eating all the time. Okay, that connection was a stretch.



..get your hipster on...I dare you not to repeat this line:

                     "you're a human too, tell your shadow what to do, don't let it get away"

Okay srsly. If it's not the couple talking its the boy chawing on his reeces pieces.

Give me back my library. The quiet one.

I keep avoiding writing about the Yellow Wallpaper.

Headphones in.

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Isn't it funny how songs come to you out of the blue?

This one came yesterday

her voice is enchanting

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fascination

I really just like to watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJsyMmC76aM&feature=related

the street just next to you

A tornado recently went through my last area that I served in during my mission for the LDS church. I wish that I could be there to help pick up the lost pieces of buildings and hearts. This picture really brought it home to me because I turned down the street by this school many times.

It is always humbling to see how elements in life can change so quickly. Treasure today and those you love.

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Let's be friends

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."

-Henry David Thoreau

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in a cloud of words

I think it is safe to say that this semester will be characterized primarily by reading. All the time. Yes I am that sorry soul that lugs a pack of text to school every day, please wave as you pass. I've enjoyed it, but it definitely is a strong contrast to last semester.I just hope I can remember something from the mass of words forming.

Works/authors I've especially enjoyed so far:

The Relation-Alvar De Vaca

Anne Bradstreet

"The Dream of the Rood"

"The Wanderer"

"The Second Shepherd's Play"

"The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears"

"Personal Narrative"-Jonathan Edwards

I also just read Hamlet for the upteenth time. Love you Hammy boy (yes we are on a first name basis), but I wouldn't really mind studying Shakespeare's other works. The one plus is exchanging better known lines from the play with my Father such as:

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

"Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt"

"Frailty thy name is woman"

"How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!"

I particularly like the third. It make miserable moments so much more enjoyable.

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