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bunnies

i bought two bunny rabbits.

they're so cute i love them.

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The Burning Hipster - By: SincerelyHalfHearted

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bikers vs. cars vs. walkers

These are the perspectives that everybody can attest to:

Cars: Oh my god WATCH OUT A BIKER! Why are those bikers so close to my car? Holy shit is that biker going to hit my car? Stupid fucking bikers.

Bikers: Oh my gawhd. I can't believe these people DRIVE to work. Look at me, I'm so fit right now. I BIKE to work. Imma zip through this red light thank you very much. OH MY GOD THAT CAR IS IN THE BIKE LANE MOVE ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS.

Walkers: What's going on. Can I cross? When is the blinking walking man going to be turned on? These bikers and cars are so annoying. It's like they think they own the road or something. 

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Underwear Days

These last few weeks have been underwear days. Underwear days are when you spend most of the day in your underwear when you are not at work or in public. Underwear days happen when it is a) too hot and b) when you are injured and it hurts to put on clothes.

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hello again.

Well I am back to writing on my blog.

I had a breakthrough today with my writer's block. It was encouraged by my hamstring injury, which I just diagnosed myself. My physical therapists and doctors have been no help. I did some extensive research on high hamstring pain, and I discovered that I most certainly have hamstring tendinopathy. It's basically a strain right near the attachment of the 3 hamstring muscles to the ischial bone or whatever. Anatomy terms. I am not able to walk, run, bend, or squeeze my hamstring without sharp pain. It is awful. This is an injury that apparently takes months, even years to fully recover from. 

The few positives that have come from this injury are as follows:

1) I have slowly returned to my writing and artistic processes. I feel like this is God's way of saying "You run too much. I'm going to hurt you so you do other things like art and stuff since you're good at that." 

2) Speaking of God, I've started thinking more about my faith again. My faith/religiousness always goes up and down, which is merely a reflection of the journey that is spirituality. I was reminded today of my unfortunate experience with an ex of mine, and how I was able to recover by trusting that things would get better, and that I would meet someone more suited to me. And God didn't forget his promise. This all happened. So I'm applying this lesson to my injury. One day I'll run again. I just have to trust that this period of pain, frustration, and anger towards my injury is all related to the grander scheme of something.

3) More time to apply for the jobs I want. The other day I sent my resume to ArtsEditor, and independent art publication in Boston. I've also corresponded with a few reps from New Balance and Drydock, and had the wonderful opportunity to meet Susan Dooley, Head of Marketing at Drydock Footwear. She said she would have hired me on the spot if there was a position available. It was very encouraging. 

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hello again

so i haven't written on my blog in like a month. not good. not good. it's probably because i have an OMG BOYFRIEND right now, so i get distracted. and also just because life gets in the way with jobs, apartments, friends, writer's block and being terrified of writing for no obvious reason, and training for marathons 'n shit.

THE GOOD:

1. I am so so so so so happy. I am figuring out who I am and where I belong in life. I am working on maintaining relationships, working on discovering what my faith and what God means to me, and setting lofty goals for myself in terms of jobs, travel, etc.

2. I'm in Aruba with my boyfriend. AROOBA.

3. I'm tan. I never tan and I'm tan right now. I'm not like burnt freckle Irish.

4. I'm going to Paris in a month with my family.

5. I LOVE working at the Greater Boston Running Company. I've met some wonderful people. I've become extremely connected to the high ups in the running community (president of New Balance, DM of the Running Company in my region), and I get a ton of free shit. I've already gotten two pairs of free shoes, lots of cute clothing, and an Amphipod water bottle. 

THE BAD:

1. I did not complete the Boston Marathon. There was also a terrorist attack and two bombs that went off, so maybe it was for the better that I didn't finish.

2. I'm poor as shit. I had to delay moving to Boston because I need a real fucking job that pays me a salary. And I'm not really good at saving my money. Mostly just spend it on take out Siam Delight like all the time. 

3. Not much else that is bad really. I stil have lots of anxiety over silly things, but it's mostly good ok I'm super hungry I don't care about my blog anymore I want food I'm making cookies omg cookies.

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Molly

On our way to Virginia, Molly looks at the water through

the salt-faded car window.

The window is a moving dot, a solitary rectangle

creating a barrier between a smiling set of eyes

and twenty-one years of life that are suspended wisps, floating behind 

in exhaustion after traveling at seventy miles per hour. 

Her blood circulating, fueling,

warm and quiet like the heat gathering on the right side of the car

where the sun is shining.

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i feel like the further i am from the day i graduated, the stupider my writing sounds, and the less patience i have to complete a piece of decent writing. 

looks like it's time to go back to school.

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bonjour encore

i haven't written in my blog for a while, because i've been busy. mostly because i'm working about 45 hours a week now, which is great, but also annoying. i guess it's normal full-time hours, but i'm just being a brat and complaining because i'm also training for a marathon and probably about to fall in love with someone i started dating a few weeks ago, so there's a lot going on. 

remember how i went on a road trip to miami? yeah. i wrote a whole post during the trip, and i have yet to post it. so here goes.

Before I get too sentimental, I’ll cover various funny parts of the trip. I feel like they’re all very minor things, and maybe you won’t even find them as laugh-worthy as I do. I have a tendency to find very stupid things hilarious, like fat people on motorized scooters, or fast food chains like Waffle House. Therefore, I have made a road trip checklist of things I have experienced/seen, in an effort to communicate the ups and downs of our trip, and the vast cultural difference between the north and the south. 

Checklist:

1. Getting pulled over: At around 3:30am on our first leg of the trip to New Jersey, we got pulled over because the cop said we looked “lost.” I’m pretty sure he had nothing better to do, and he may or may not have thought Tor (our driver at that point), was drunk. We were all exhausted and simply looking for a place to stay for the night, and a cop started following us and put his cop lights on when we pulled in to the parking lot of the “Royal Inn,” which was not royal at all and was a piece of shit with a desk attendant who didn’t speak English. Tor was told to get out of the vehicle, and he talked to the cop for about five minutes, apparently about the weather for a majority of the time, then the cop let us go. No tickets, thank god. 

2. Scary motels: Side of the highway motels that are not Holiday Inns or Hampton Inns are just like you imagine them. They have stupid names that try to sound comforting and fabulous, and you park and try to speak the front desk person, which in our case was always a shitty intercom box since we were always checking in past midnight.

3. Confederate flags: DON’T WORRY, WE’LL FIGHT BACK SOMEDAY! #Murica

4. The South’s inability to handle inclement weather: During the second leg of our trip, we made a pit-stop in Virginia for gas, food etc. Unfortunately there was a snowstorm that lasted from New Jersey to the tail-end of Virginia, but it was the slushy, wet kind of snow that makes driving terrible and makes everything look ugly and dirty. Experiencing a snowstorm in Virginia made me appreciate Massachusetts’s efficiency on handling massive two feet snowstorms. I might complain about New England winters, but we certainly know how to clean shit up. 

5. Fat people and fat people food: Yeah, the south is fat. And they eat at fast food restaurants with names like "Bojangles" and "Shoney's." Obviously I'm stereotyping, and maybe I only chose to see the fat people and laugh at them instead of acknowledging the normal-sized people of the south, but it's more fun to be ignorant sometimes. 

At one point we went to a restaurant and ordered sweet potato fries that came with cinnamon sugar butter frosting. So yeah. That happened.

Gas stations are also trashy as fuck. On our way home the boys got a 12 pack of Miller High Life and drank it in the parking lot. Not even a second glance from the people at the station. 

6. Forest fire: Yeah. A forest fire on the side of the highway. Nothing spectacular, but it was nighttime and there were flames for about 100m right on the side of the road. No idea why. But we were just like OH SHIT and kept driving.

7. Scary conservative church signs: REPENT OR GO TO HELL!! said every baptist church in the south. 

8. Scary meth house: We had to pull over at one point to turn around on the highway. Of course the place we decided to pull into to turn around happened to be this side street with a disheveled shack that was most likely a meth house. Some guy who looked like A$AP Rocky walked out with a jug of what I'm pretty sure was bleach or some sort of household cleaner. Brandon and Tor were just like "OK SHIT NIGGA, SHIT KEEP DRIVING" in their funny black voice they always do whenever they see super hood people. Probably racist, but it's funny. 

I'm going to make a part two. There were far too many things that happened on this trip. I am so lucky to have the funniest, weirdest friends who will do these things with me.

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ok i love this. like this song makes me cry.

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Kiska is going to help us sell #newbalance #spikes tonight (at Greater Boston Running Company)

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post road-trip

my car smells like cigarettes (not mine, obvi), chipotle burritos (but just the onion smell), and feet.

and there are crumbs everywhere.

worth it.

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Fashion shot

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life is so good it isn't fair right now

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miami today.

i leave for miami today.

i want to the rest of my life to be like this. just taking spontaneous trips and doing what makes me happy, while maintaining good relationships with people and doing whatever i can to extend myself to the world, and discovering more and more about the character of god and the greater purpose in my life.

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I don't know why, but I just love this song. It's so raw and spiritual.