quests.

So this blog has always had a bit of a journey-type mentality since I started it when I went to Europe--and then senior year was the thesis journey--then thailand--now grad school. but wait, before I get there--I have the summer. so it shall be a bit of a reading journey--or quest.

I have just been really unsatisfied with chick-flicks lately. what is happening? I need to see some good movies--help.

As far as books go--I love coming-of-age stories. maybe because they clarify what you felt like when you were a child. I've often wondered why no one can explain how you feel so alone and different when you were starting to grow-up and yet in a few years you read about it, and it makes perfect sense, and everyone was feeling the same way.

When I've been upset about things--I like to write. In high school I wrote angsty poems. sometimes in the middle of class--embarrassing.

but since then--everything I write--is just not cathartic, b/c after I write it and I read it--it sounds so prosaic. so how are all these authors poignantly portraying these kids' exact same feelings? as my 2nd cousin said, "I lost all my words." that is how I feel about writing. better yet, I can use A tree grows in Brooklyn to explain it, "She read the words over aloud. They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them." That is exactly how I feel when I re-read what I write. stale. so I'm on a quest to read what I feel--or something like that.