Me, Staring At The Moon, Almost Every Night: I Love You, I Really Do.

opening paragraphs of all time

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

if you asked me about any of the tunes to any song or any lyrics i’ve listened to in the past two hours i wouldn’t be able to tell you

There was one of those hyperspecific polls that had an option like “your grandfather told you war stories that he never told anyone else” and now I feel like I have to tell the story about how a spider saved my grandpa’s life in WWII and how my family doesn’t kill spiders because we owe our existence to that One Single Spider

make sure to check on your bisexual friends today

they are probably dying

Just remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once.

Trying to live my Sufjan Stevens summer

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"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but it won't build you the the muscles.

Goldfinch on Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch

me when im having an existencial crisis and its caused by cecil gershwin palmer

— May 22, 1912 / Franz Kafka diaries