• 10/15: "though there's pain in the offering" what pain?
• 10/16: i have to give up what I want, in defense of what I know is true.
• 10/17: Indian boys are slick.
• 10/18: "you have to have cried over it for weeks" before you utter one word that you think a friend is doing something wrong
• 10/19: I cannot be caught in the act of wanting.
• 10/20: You MUST make me remember that I am NO better.
• 10/22: "When you're cooking something in the kitchen, slow down. If there's something in the pot soaking in the sauce, leave it in there... let it become a little more tender." -Derrick Brown
• 10/23: "He's wearing a cross, that means you can date him if you're wondering." -Julianna Sparrow
• 10/24: "It's a lot easier to not start something than to get out of something that is not right." -Jim Wood's mom
• 10/25: I am officially obsessed with the poet Derrick C. Brown.

Apparently I'm slacking on this...

• 10/27: I really should leave more than 45 minutes to study for art history...
• 10/28: Don't call someone a nickname if you don't know what it means.
• 10/29: Today was chai lattes, yoga, poetry, Kay.
• 10/30: Today was pancakes in the sun.
• 10/31: I need to be able to say that I've tried my hardest.
• 11/1: "It might be an adventure to be able to let someone go and still be there for them." -Jim Wood
• 11/2: Life can be found in a dark room movie, but be careful because you see things differently through the light from the screen. Life can be found in a conversation, over chicken fingers that you're too full for. But life can also be found in the power that comes from resistance.
• 11/3: Today I was re-aquainted with the green Nicaraguan lush and the sparkling sink on the mountaintop in Wiru. I was a veteran of fatigue and faught it with healthy exercise. I faced my fear of credit card decline and resisted and accepted to make my sink shine.
• 11/4: Bathroom wall: 1st person- "Religion is a whore." 2nd person- "She's really good in bed though."
• 11/5: Colored neck tattoos produce a good time.
• 11/6: I enjoyed Gallery Espresso and it's coffee almond strutzel.
• 11/7: Productive energy CAN be conjured.
• 11/8: Tomato soup and pajamas with Devon is fun.
• 11/9: Did I really manage to go through an entire day without doing any work?
• 11/10: I could live off of ingenuiTEA and talk of movies
• 11/11: "The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night."
• 11/17: We're gonna put him in a box, put it in the closet, and then go to sleep, and we're gonna come back to him after we go see Harry Potter
• 11/19: calm can come in a train ride conversation
• 11/26: Carley Oser you inspire me :)
• 12/4: Sometimes after being sick for a couple days you just need to GET OUT of the house and DO SOMETHING not focussing on yourself.
• 12/25: I am overwhelmed with my excitement that I now own a perfume entitled "Bali Dream."
• 12/26: "Only those who contemplate the constellations can still move us." Francis Picabia