exercise

A Partial List of Things I Got For/Around My Birthday

- a Japanese toy gun
- a yoga mat
- a red felt cape (only a rental, sniff)
- a notebook
- a 1901 edition of Julius Caesar, completely defaced by its previous small-boy-owner
- several pairs of earrings
- a ring
- Double Chocolate Milanos and Parle G Biscuits
- a few novels
- a Rootote
- a GRE Practice Test Book. i'm no longer friends with the person who gave me this.
- a bunch of daisies
- a cactus
- a mini-fridge

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today i went to a WAGS lunch with a psychologist who'd written about Virginia Woolf, and i all of a sudden remembered that Woolf is my person. i know tons of things about her and get excited to talk about her and have lots of opinions about her---and it's silly for me to force myself to read authors who don't interest me as much because i'm feeling lost about my thesis. this is what will make my thesis right. i just need to work on novels i care about, and i'm not sure why i couldn't understand that until now.

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listening to Juliana Hatfield "Spin the Bottle," Death Cab's "Sound of Settling," and The Weepies "Gotta Have You"
reading Roland Barthes Mythologies and John Locke's Second Treatise
sleeping on creamy beige sheets
loving my poetry and brit lit classes and trying hard to love my theory one

other things will be okay soon too