LDR

I dislike Lana Del Rey

summer playlist

get lucky- daft punk

your protector- fleet foxes

when i'm small- phantogram

diane young- vampire weekend

across the universe- fiona apple

revival- deerhunter

shuggie- foxygen

sound of silence- simon + garfunkel

tiger mountain peasant song- fleet foxes

instant crush- daft punk ft. jcas

sugar's boat- thee oh sees

the gulag orkestar- beirut

this playlist is all over the place

spring quotes

"Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on  a land mine. The land mine is me. After the  explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the  pieces back together." -Bradbury

we have obsessionSssSsSsSs

I have this recurring problem of always having to be obsessed with something; most of the time it's movies, books, or TV shows. It's alarming how much energy I put into feeling so many emotions about a work of fiction while simultaneously becoming increasingly apathetic to everything else around me. 

reading

I have not been reading as much as I should be recently. And shamefully, tonight I saw Gatsby before I read the book (which is  a travesty in itself). BUT! Today I bought 6 books for $5, something I am very proud of.  

A Million Little Pieces- James Frey

White Oleander- Janet Fitch

Sideways- Rex Pickett

Freedom- Johnathan Franzen

he Kitchen God's Wife- Amy Tan

3 of those are Oprah's book club picks so who is the real winner now!

And now I have no choice but to jump on the Gatsby bandwagon...again I cannot reiterate how ashamed I am to have not read the book. The movie was great but I could have gone without Lana Del Rey's voice drowning out the dialogue, but we can't have it all. I'm so excited to be reading again, as it turns out I am not the biggest fan of dystopian society literature. To each his own

happy happy happy

I love those moments of realization in life when you feel so fulfilled and happy and satisfied and content with everything you have and everything you don't. I am so happy to be happy! Sophomore year has been so tedious and I'm just glad it's almost over. I am very lucky to have such good friends and I am very lucky to have such a good job and I am very lucky to be able to travel as much as I do. I need to stop worrying as much because one day I'll be doing what makes me happy and my high school class rank has nothing to do with that. No matter what I know I'm going to go to college anyways so I need to stop worrying as much as I do now! My problems are so minuscule in the realm of actual problems. It's not the end of the day if I fail my chem test. It's not the end of the day if another girl doesn't like me. I am myself, and I am okay.

PS I think I was enlightened today and I now want to take a gap year :-) 

statistics

If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.

If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.

If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.

If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.

If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.

Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.