hey blog. i'm back.

reaping

i saw
Her just this afternoon, but
She had not yet seen me;
anyway, it is not time for harvest yet,
i think
She knew, though, that i would recognize Her
just a reminder!!
She is sharpening the sickle.

And a look back on 2008, also known as the worst year ever, unpublished facebook note...oh, how I loved being computerless for the past week and a half.

Occurrences in the year 2008 left me lost and many new releases failed to find me, but the wait for an hour of sunshine in a million years of rain continues to thread me along...

Notable in 2008 (according to what i have seen and heard)

Albums (no order)
Xiu Xiu: Women as Lovers
Why?: Alopecia
A Silver Mt. Zion: 13 Blues for 13 Moons
Portishead: Third
M83: Saturdays = Youth
No Age: Nouns
The Jesus and Mary Chain: The Power of Negative Thinking box set

Notable 2008 concerts (sorta order)
My Bloody Valentine, Roseland Ballroom, Sept. 22
The Magnetic Fields, Merriam Theater, Oct 25
All Points West Festival, Liberty State Park, Aug 9
No Age, the church, July 10
Why?, the church, Good Friday

Movies (sorta order)
There Will Be Blood
Wall-E
The Dark Knight
No Country For Old Men
Persepolis
Counterfeiters
Milk

Personal notable events/happenings/accomplishments/whatever:
-Turned sixteen (clumsy and shy)
-Love, hate
-Synonym the rabbit!
-Tyler School of the Arts shitty summer classes with Ashley and Casey
-Awesome depression
-Became obsessed with running as a coping/self torture mechanism, ran varsity cross country all season, PR 21:13 I think...?
-Psychocandy job at Skip's Candy Prison since June
-AP English Language class, enough said
-Shifting hairstyles
-RIP Uncle Danny
-New friends, new acquaintances, mostly missing old friends
-Performing musix, developing musical talents on guitar, drums, vox, and... chord organ.
-Survival!!

2007 was way better.
2009, please be kind...

(I am currently anticipating Morrissey's Years of Refusal and accompanying tour...typical me.)

January 4, blog revival.

A list of current events

-celebrating a major secret victory that i'm not even supposed to know about, but one that fills me with both power and relief, with a slight underlying feeling of dread

-nursing two ear infections

-scribbling out over 40 pages of homework due tomorrow

-unpacking

-picking my chapped lips

-coughing

-finishing an assortment of art projects, portfolio for PGSE is due on the 8th, RISD precollege the 7th (but that's rolling, and less of a threat)