Coleslaw

Yours Truly,
L.P.

Quiet

Life and drowning are similar.

If you stop struggling, they can be both be sort of peaceful.

Yours Truly,

L.P.

Une femme est une femme

Feminism really depresses me sometimes. I saw Young Victoria last night and there was all this talk about her being feminist and what not and I just hate the word "feminism". So many negative connotations. Because, really, it would be much more accurate to have a word for people who aren't feminists. What's wrong with caring about the way you're viewed on an intellectual level? Nothing. There's something wrong with letting your life passively revolve around men. There should be a name for those kind of women. They should be the abnormal. It's so strange. I don't identify myself as a feminist I just identify myself as a thinking human being who expresses interest in equality. But apparently that's crazy enough to make you a feminist when you're 16.
And 2009 has been a great year for female protagonists in films, but I don't think it has anything to do with feminism. Just because the characters were written with substance and authenticity doesn't mean they were doing anything all that groundbreaking other than having the audacity to show signs of life.

Now, I understand it being radical in the 1800s with Queen Victoria, but it's kind of embarrassing that this is still a left-wing concept

Yours Truly,
L.P.

Scarecrows

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.


Yours Truly,
L.P.

Linus and Lucy

Please oh please oh please oh please give me a snow day tomorrow!

It's December 8th already and I haven't even had a chance to think about the Holidays.

I mean, my school isn't really all that strict, (we don't have nuns or anything) but the nice thing about going to a Catholic school around this time of year is that Christmas is a HUGE deal. You don't have to worry about not being noninclusive or offensive or something. Christmas lights are up around the school and we have a big tree in the main hallway and a really wonderful celebration the day before break where we get to perform Nutcracker and everyone holds candles. We also have like 3 school Masses all within a month which is a lot if you are like me and not actually Catholic, but it really is really magical. Definitely my favorite time of year.

That being said though, a snow day tomorrow would still be very much appreciated.

Yours Truly,

L.P.

Holy shazam

Oh my god I have been try to find this song since the 7th grade!
I was in one of those cool clothing stores that have big screens where they play music videos and spent a solid year Google searching EVERYTHING to figure out what this song was! The only lyrics I knew were the "beep beeps". I went through so many "Best Music Videos with Puppets" lists you have no idea.
Maybe if they had just spelled popsicle right...

So any way, I really like Starlight Mints a lot and that's how I finally found this.

Yours Truly,
L.P.

I want to be a fish, not a duck

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." --Holden Caulfield

There have been so many times when I just completely buried myself in books and music and films because I was so sure that the makers of those would understand me better than anyone else. I got friendship out of those things. And it was great, I mean they couldn't exactly break my heart or anything. But it did get lonely. I don't know, adolescence is so weird. Growing up in suburbia is so weird. You're expected to find your best friend, your first love, your liberation and your inspiration all in one tiny town? What the fuck? Why would anyone want that? For these to be the happiest years? The reason why I care so much about school is because I need to get good grades so that I can go away to college and meet people who want to be in the same place that I want to be. That's it. I definitely don't get my kicks from getting A's. I just look around and see how dangerous it is to be shortsighted in high school. I love Holden. I always have, but part of me is just like "COME ON! You're gonna be miserable no matter what, might as well have a goal."

Yours Truly,
L.P.