Then again, I'll only be 26 when I enter whatever other grad program I'm likely to apply for in 2008. 26-year-old Mormon women getting married is not unheard of, and I have no qualms getting hitched with a kid four or five years younger than me. So really..... And everyone says I look eighteen. I'm still fringing on girlhood. If I wrote an autobiography, it would still be categorized as Bildungsroman.
And what alternatives do I have? I'm not moving to Provo and wearing slinky knee-length skirts made of burgundy pleather. I refuse to stoop to the level of baking brownies for the neighboring apartment of boys and waiting in lip gloss and eye shadow for them to return the plate and suggest dinner and a movie. I'm not desperate yet. I recall that scene from Willow when the lecherous bearded man suggests "WANNA BREED?" to Val Kilmer dressed as a woman. I'm not a lecherous bearded man. It might work for me. But only if I found someone as attractive and exasperatingly charming as Madmartigan to approach. Until then, I just want to graduate.
More men should have long beautiful braided tresses and carry swords.
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I love that you just barely updated your blog and think you can criticize mine, but alas, I've updated mine too.
Cookies whores, that's what we called them. The girls that literally sell themselves with baked goods to any member of the elders quorum who'll look their way. I agree, never bow down!
I know how this goes. All to well.
But I am not running off to japan any day soon.
Em, you you of all people will never approach the dregs you described.
But just like Madmortigan, you will hold out on some evil other, and after both becoming swine for a spell, the stamina of your kick assness together will be fully realized. There aren't many people out there who can heft a broadsword like you--remember that.
"You really are great"
Pleather skirts? Does that really work. I mean I understand the lip gloss, but....maybe I should get a sword.
Do you think the cooking works with girls too?
BIldungsroman, haha! That's funny because even though I'm not an English major, I speak German and I'm at the root of your esotericism!
Yeah, I think you know where i stand on this... it's like I'm on an island... one of four... erm. Oh this isn't COMPLETELY obvious?!
Asahi633, you are so full of baloney. Who are you to be dictating what people around you should and shouldn't do? especially when you're up against an institutionalized institution of bohemoth scale that makes you feel klein und ohne Bedeutung!?
Haha, I hope I didn't sound like I was fishing for compliments, but I'll take 'em. And Chaucer, you're damn straight: no one hefts a broadsword like I do.
Konrad, you're a nut. And you're not up against an institution......I'm not the type to get institutionalized. It's more of a heart/soul thing. But if/when I do end up on an island somewhere near the one you currently drift around on, I wouldn't mind a picnic or two on a boat somewhere between them. That's about where I stand.....*tosses bottled message into sea, shuffles back to drink coconut under palm tree*
Em, are you in an MA in poetry somewheres? That's what I think I derived from your comments. I am currently in an MFA in poetry myself.
I'd love to peruse your stuff even though you don't really know me besides being co-mixtapers.
Well, thank you. I'm flattered you even remember my work at BYU-I.
Actually, the Pews are very near me. I go to NYU and they go to Sarah Lawrence. We've run into each other twice now.
Yeah, I'd love to look at your thesis. I'm finishing my first year right now. I'll be here another year unless I receive a T.A. position. Then I'll be here an extra year.
My email is jamesbestiv@gmail.com. I'd love to peruse.
Where are you at right now? I don't even know what school you're attending.
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