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Writing the Story of How Hard We Try...
Created on 2003-03-31 19:36:35 (#978977), last updated 2009-11-22
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Basic Info| Name: | Annie Hall |
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| Website: | http://www.livejournal.com/users/poetinthemaking |
Bio"Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats... Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit."* ts eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
"hearts colors change like leaves"*tv on the radio, "ambulance"
"And a fear that you haven't done well enough-you wonder if you've got what it takes to keep butting up obstacle courses for yourself and to keep leaping through them, sprained ankle or not. again the refrain, what have you done with all your years"*Sylvia Plath, unabridged journals
I write a lot of poems. I make lists about everything. I worked in museums and followed my dream of going to Harvard [for a masters in Education]. Now, I'm a teacher, and love my kiddos. Despite this, I can't spell. I eat a lot of salad and dream about scantily cooked meat now that I'm no longer vegetarian. I love airports, the act of being in transition, of going. I brush my teeth often, really often. I wear rings on my middle finger usually and play a lot of songs on repeat. But, And So It Goes is my #1 favorite song of all time (followed closely with Death Cab for Cuties Into the Dark). I drink enough coffee to kill a small horse. I have read everything Sylvia Plath has written. I listen to a lot of NPR and am building up a great vinyl collection. I take too much on the belief that people are decent. I'm learning how to cook (all over again), much to the shock of everyone who watched me continually order out in college.
I have a habit of romanticizing the airplane, especially because I fell in love on one. I love getting pedicures and doing educational research. I will read or watch anything that involves a boarding school, vampires, the fifties or mobsters. I change my hair color a lot, like hand-written letters and wake up every morning and check nataliedee.com. I hate socks, and love shoes. I'm in search of the last great thing I'd love to own--a vintage Underwood typewriter. I am trying to figure out the limitations of perspectives and the contrast between light and dark. I'm trying to connect it all, writing poems, writing notes, drawing pictures, taking photos. I'm trying to put it all together, the way things reflect on other things and how we work in the world.
I love Chicago, skyscrapers and big shoulders. I cannot wait for Autumn. And winter. And Christmas. I've gotten to live in Hyde Park, then in an apartment with my best friend and got to see the lake. Now, I have a place with hardwood floors and a lovely gentlemen forever. I've got a fantastic job, great co-workers, and the best students in the world. More importantly, I've got the best friends and the most amazing guy. I, for the first time, am not counting down to anything. And I'm finally not sorry for anything, either.
"I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before."*joan didion
"I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen. Why should I be me, or anyone? What held us all together or made us all just one? How I didn't know any word for it how "unlikely". . . How had I come to be here."* elizabeth bishop, "in the waiting room"
"I was only broken by the sources of things"*anne sexton
Read in 2008
1. Club Dead: Charlaine Harris
2. Love, Stargirl: Jerry Spinelli
3. Dead to the World: Charlaine Harris
4. Definitely Dead: Charlaine Harris
5. Are You There Vodka, It's Me, Chelsea: Chelsea Handler
6. All Together Dead: Charlaine Harris
7. Girls, Drums and Dangerous Pie: Jordan Sonnenblick
8. The Giver: Lowis Lowry
9. I Am The Messenger: Marcus Zuzak
10. Heaven Looks a Lot Like a Mall: Wendy Mass
11. The Know-It-All: AJ Jacobs
12. The Book Thief: Marcuz Zuzak
13. City of Thieves: David Benioff
14. Revolutionary Road: Richard Yates
15. From Dead To Worse: Charlaine Harris
16. It's Kind of a Funny Story: Ned Vizzini
17. The Financial Lives of Poets: Jess Walter
18. Dead and Gone: Charlaine Harris
19. Fool: Christopher Moore
20. Un Lun Dun: China Mieville
21. Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins
22. Zorgamazoo: Paul Westin
23. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac: Gabrielle Zevin
24. Cathy's Book: Sean Stewart
25. The Magicians: Lev Grossman
26. The Silver Kiss: Anette Klause
27. A Voyage Long and Strange: Tony Horwitz
28. Catching Fire: Suzanne Collins
29. The Knife of Never Letting Go: Patrick Ness
Like I said, really private. Just ask. why do we turn the tv on to help us fall asleep? why, when we were young, did we take the greatest comfort in falling asleep under the dinner table with guests al around? or on the coarse couch while our family watched a movie? because we don't want to be alone when we leave this waking world*dave eggers, "how we are hungry"
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and credit tomovements for the amazing layout
"hearts colors change like leaves"*tv on the radio, "ambulance"
"And a fear that you haven't done well enough-you wonder if you've got what it takes to keep butting up obstacle courses for yourself and to keep leaping through them, sprained ankle or not. again the refrain, what have you done with all your years"*Sylvia Plath, unabridged journals
I write a lot of poems. I make lists about everything. I worked in museums and followed my dream of going to Harvard [for a masters in Education]. Now, I'm a teacher, and love my kiddos. Despite this, I can't spell. I eat a lot of salad and dream about scantily cooked meat now that I'm no longer vegetarian. I love airports, the act of being in transition, of going. I brush my teeth often, really often. I wear rings on my middle finger usually and play a lot of songs on repeat. But, And So It Goes is my #1 favorite song of all time (followed closely with Death Cab for Cuties Into the Dark). I drink enough coffee to kill a small horse. I have read everything Sylvia Plath has written. I listen to a lot of NPR and am building up a great vinyl collection. I take too much on the belief that people are decent. I'm learning how to cook (all over again), much to the shock of everyone who watched me continually order out in college.
I have a habit of romanticizing the airplane, especially because I fell in love on one. I love getting pedicures and doing educational research. I will read or watch anything that involves a boarding school, vampires, the fifties or mobsters. I change my hair color a lot, like hand-written letters and wake up every morning and check nataliedee.com. I hate socks, and love shoes. I'm in search of the last great thing I'd love to own--a vintage Underwood typewriter. I am trying to figure out the limitations of perspectives and the contrast between light and dark. I'm trying to connect it all, writing poems, writing notes, drawing pictures, taking photos. I'm trying to put it all together, the way things reflect on other things and how we work in the world.
I love Chicago, skyscrapers and big shoulders. I cannot wait for Autumn. And winter. And Christmas. I've gotten to live in Hyde Park, then in an apartment with my best friend and got to see the lake. Now, I have a place with hardwood floors and a lovely gentlemen forever. I've got a fantastic job, great co-workers, and the best students in the world. More importantly, I've got the best friends and the most amazing guy. I, for the first time, am not counting down to anything. And I'm finally not sorry for anything, either.
"I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before."*joan didion
"I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen. Why should I be me, or anyone? What held us all together or made us all just one? How I didn't know any word for it how "unlikely". . . How had I come to be here."* elizabeth bishop, "in the waiting room"
"I was only broken by the sources of things"*anne sexton
Read in 2008
1. Club Dead: Charlaine Harris
2. Love, Stargirl: Jerry Spinelli
3. Dead to the World: Charlaine Harris
4. Definitely Dead: Charlaine Harris
5. Are You There Vodka, It's Me, Chelsea: Chelsea Handler
6. All Together Dead: Charlaine Harris
7. Girls, Drums and Dangerous Pie: Jordan Sonnenblick
8. The Giver: Lowis Lowry
9. I Am The Messenger: Marcus Zuzak
10. Heaven Looks a Lot Like a Mall: Wendy Mass
11. The Know-It-All: AJ Jacobs
12. The Book Thief: Marcuz Zuzak
13. City of Thieves: David Benioff
14. Revolutionary Road: Richard Yates
15. From Dead To Worse: Charlaine Harris
16. It's Kind of a Funny Story: Ned Vizzini
17. The Financial Lives of Poets: Jess Walter
18. Dead and Gone: Charlaine Harris
19. Fool: Christopher Moore
20. Un Lun Dun: China Mieville
21. Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins
22. Zorgamazoo: Paul Westin
23. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac: Gabrielle Zevin
24. Cathy's Book: Sean Stewart
25. The Magicians: Lev Grossman
26. The Silver Kiss: Anette Klause
27. A Voyage Long and Strange: Tony Horwitz
28. Catching Fire: Suzanne Collins
29. The Knife of Never Letting Go: Patrick Ness
Like I said, really private. Just ask. why do we turn the tv on to help us fall asleep? why, when we were young, did we take the greatest comfort in falling asleep under the dinner table with guests al around? or on the coarse couch while our family watched a movie? because we don't want to be alone when we leave this waking world*dave eggers, "how we are hungry"
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