I'm doing 25 things
It appears I have a lot to catch up on. To be honest, my life has been so odd and hectic lately that I have utterly forgotten the existence of this website. Oh well, here goes.
1. Partially melted strawberry ice-cream
2. The way my heart jumps slightly whenever he smiles at me. His eyes are almost gray, surround with extremely dark eyelashes. They are beautiful, in a strange way.
3. Looking at youthful pictures of people I have met recently. It’s interesting to see how people change.
4. Oranges—I like to chew on the peels and get the slight sting of the acid on my tongue. Your entire tongue tingles. Also, when you look through oranges, things are flushed with orange, like the world at night in the streetlights. Only it’s nicer, because streetlights make the world look diseased.
5. The warmth of his arm against mine.
6. This quote from the book “Raise High The Roof Beams, Carpenters” by J.D. Salinger: “Oh God, if I’m anything by a clinical name, I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
7. Moments of comfortable silence with friends
8. The Dog Pit, a small hot dog shop in the city near campus. There is an older man there who plays his guitar. Listening to that guitar, smelling the hot dogs, and watching the steam curling up from a cup of hot chocolate with a book and a friend is a moment of bliss.
9. Yesterday, I went to this bookstore. There were so many books there that all I wanted to do was to cry. It seems like an illogical response, but I was so overwhelmed. My friend and I left because we began to feel physically ill at the sheer volume of things we wanted to read but would never have time to finish. I could’ve died right there.
10. Knowing that, for a change, I’m the stranger of us two.
11. Books by Deanna Molinaro. They are wonderfully depressing.
