2 posts tagged “ira glass”

So here I am, again.  School is almost over.  So close, and yet, so far.  I  keep wanting to write a story but I'm not sure how to approach it.

My favorite writing teacher was in my dream two nights ago.  Okay, I know I'm obsessed.  I don't like being obsessed with people I know.  It's awkward.  I can be overbearing, I'm sure, and scare people away.  I don't want that to happen.

Have I mentioned my new favorite band?  They're called Vampire Weekend, they have one album out.  I love them.

I'm torn between wanting people to read this blog and not wanting anyone to know it exists.  The teacher I love says that everyone feels the same.  We all feel that we are alone in our own little painful world.  It was Plato, I believe, who said, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."  I love Plato.  Much better than Aristotle, in my opinion.

 So last post, I talked about my writer-crushes.  I also have a huge crush on Steve Almond, after reading Candyfreak and Which Brings Me To You.  View:

It is my tragedy in life, I believe to get completely enamored with men who I think are much smarter than me.  Whether it be literally smarter or writing-smarter.  The two usually go hand-in-hand.  I mean this is ridiculous right?  What sixteen-year-old girl has a crush on Ira Glass as opposed to, oh, I don't know, Zac Efron.  I don't like that whole surfer look thing.  Few people can pull it off.  And even then it's too...  White.  I mean, I've grown up in DC where I know maybe, ten white guys my age.  So I'm not used to it.  I'm not racist by any means, I have a friend, whose white who will outright say she doesn't like white-guys.  Hah.

I'm looking for an Etheridge Knight poem that's about Sonia Sanchez, does anyone know what I'm talking about?  It's after she left him.

  Tomorrow is the reading of an excerpt from my novella.  I'm trying not to get nervous.  As I said to my psychiatrist, most of it is out of my hands, what I can do, I will.  I got my threadless shirt yesterday and I'm wearing it today.  It says;
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator
  I'm totally listening Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangsta, from Office Space.  It's so funny.

  I was in the  waiting room at the doctors office so I picked up a TV Guide and I was so  happy because there was an interview of Ira Glass in it!  Somebody loves me.

  I'm in love with Derek Nievergelt, this really good freelance bassist.  He's half Swiss and half Filipino.  He's pretty.

  Hmm.  I need to practice reading, and then the uke.

  Oh yeah, I need a title for my novella, but I don't know what it should be.