This song:

has been my theme the past few weeks. In the ways that I have overcome so much in my life. I want to shout-out to my sister, who has a marathon runner’s heart rate… without being a marathon runner! EEP! Much love to you, sis. You’re wonderful and inspire me everyday with all you’ve overcome and the work you’re doing at OSU Lima Branch! You fill me with overwhelming confidence in your ability to reach success in the manner you want to define it.

We move through our lives with great ease and haste to anger, but it is the moments we pause for, the intimate moments of our lives that we recognize, with great sighs of understanding that, in fact, “this too shall pass.”

I do not consider myself terribly close with my family for a wide variety of reasons; yet, in the conversations I have, I am reminded what family means. It is not blood, it is not relation, but rather connection. Family are the connections we make and sustain, through prejudice and understanding. I want nothing more than to say thank you to friends and blood relatives who make me feel whole. The urge to belong, not withstanding society’s unrealistic expectations, is by far one of the most imperative drives of human desires. Now to continue writing banality into pages of my journal, because I have nothing else left to do with my day. So, barista, I’ll take another coffee. As Joshua Beckman once wrote:

The world will let us down many times,
but it will never run out of coffee.

I get so many spam comments now, it’s awful. If only there was a way to block them from even accessing my site.

Last night, Ohio beat a measure that attempted to vilify public servants for receiving the same benefits that private sector workers received over 30 years ago. In a time where corporations are raking in more and more profits, getting their taxes cut, and robbing the government of its resources, we must stand together and say enough is enough. I’m proud to say I’m an Ohioan, and a citizen of this proud state, who stood against corruption.

I also want to congratulate Mississippi voters for realizing that a woman’s right to what happens in and to her body is an important issue. I don’t think anyone believes in abortion willy-nilly, but I do think people believe that you can’t define an arbitrary point of life, in the same way that you can’t define an when an acorn becomes and Oak tree.

What SB5 has effectively attempted to do is to vilify public workers for making gains that compare to the overall success of the economy where private sector employees have had stagnant wages while their companies reap increasing profits year-over-year. We need to lift up private employees to demand back their fair-share that they have every right to because they helped to amass that fortune. They did what they were told.

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From the 1930s
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Stuart Chase: It is utterly impossible, as this country has demonstrated again and again, for the rich to save as much as they have been trying to save, and save anything that is worth saving. They can save idle factories and useless railroad coaches; they can save empty office buildings and closed banks; they can save paper evidences of foreign loans; but as a class they can not save anything that is worth saving above and beyond the amount that is made profitable by the increase of consumer buying. It is for the interests of the well-to-do, to protect them from the results of their own folly, that we should take from them a sufficient amount of their surplus to enable consumers to consume and business to operate at a profit. This is not “soaking the rich;” it is saving the rich. Incidentally, it is the only way to assure them the serenity and security which they do not have at the moment.

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That said, I’m currently getting ready to apply to grad school. My GRE was a success and I got a great range.

Verbal: 580-680
Quantitative: 650-750

I will find my official scores out in about two weeks. Here’s to hoping my analytic writing score is just as good. Now if I could only understand how to approach an essay on the topic of poetry. :\

Wish me luck!

I am currently preparing to take my GRE on October 11th. Needless to say, I’m terrified, more because I’m terrified of commitment, more so because I fear I might be terrible at English. :\ How awkward. Anyway, once I take it, I’m going to start applying to MFA Programs for Creative Writing in poetry.

So, I have to give a shout out to my host, A Small Orange, for having some amazing customer support. That is all.

Nothing can replace the voice of the one you call mom.  I am writing to say, “Mom, I am sorry I was mean.”  Love keeps the voice mean.  Mom, I called to say what I wanted to make it better.  The voice can’t be replaced.  I called.  Mom, I called to say, “I’m sorry.”

I’m kind of in love with it.  Pictures below!

The Bike’s name is Romulus Raleigh (Rommie for short) and the Car is Gertrude Ford.  (Gertie)

I love them both.

I am going to buy a bike. MORE TO FOLLOW!