June 2010
“‘Look, honey,’ She said, very firm, very deliberate, ‘when I don’t want to be kissed, I don’t get myself kissed. I’m a big girl now; I can take care of myself.’
The guy grinned. ‘You know,’ he said with a laugh, ‘I’m awfully glad to hear you can take care of yourself with me. Because I’ve been out with a lot of girls...
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God, I need to go back to Japan this summer, even...
I miss my grandparents and my cousins, none of my family members live in America. Because however much I deceive myself sometimes into thinking I’m not, I am Japanese first and American second, and it’s scaring me that I’m losing this, my culture, my heritage, terrifying that it is slipping from my fingers, this one thing that I always thought was gonna be a constant in my life....
“Everywhere, imperceptibly or otherwise, things are passing, ending, going. And...”
– Sylvia Plath
“Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar...”
– Sylvia Plath
“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing,...”
– Sylvia Plath
Remember what I said about trying to be stronger?
Today in my last class of the school year, everybody but me was huddled in cliques discussing what they’d do over the summer or going wild throwing papers everywhere.
I didn’t feel like joining in on the chaos so I sat in the corner of the room with my little blanket and a book, looking around occasionally just to observe the people, the way they interacted, who liked who and...
Things to do over the summer
Go to the beach at 4am to watch the sun rise
Bike around town with friends and have cream cheese on bagels for breakfast
Watch movies, lots of movies
Bare feet over the tide at night
Thrift store shopping
Maybe find a boy I like
Take more pictures and write more stories now that I have ample time to enjoy doing both
And in the process maybe lose a couple pounds that’ve accumulated in...
“We only write about two feelings: one is the first day of summer when you and...”
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...”
“Just one thing,” she says, raising her head and looking me straight in the eye....”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“See that’s my problem. Nothing ever happens. So I sit around and do nothing...”
