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23 December 2008 @ 12:57 am
Contentment

“at this rate we’ll have to
wear the same clothes
until we’re eighty-five,
and move to a tiny, tiny house
with no indoor plumbing,

“we’ll bathe out in the rain
and jog daily to school.
also, please prepare for
the eventual and inevitable
selling of your kidneys,

“someday we’ll discover
which among our neighbors’
shrubbery or pets or persons
will give us less indigestion,”
you were ranting wildly as usual, and i -

- i can’t help but smile, because
i find the cannibalism jokes funny,
and the Christmas chill made us huddle close,
and we have never been poorer,
or felt more content.

***

i never had any intention to write about...this. maybe it's because i don't want people's pity. maybe it's because i resent our situation too much. maybe it's because i'm afraid people will not understand and laugh. or maybe it's because i'm vain - utterly and lethally proud - and i don't want people to think any less of me. because i already DO feel kind of less, and i hate it.

i realize now that i should've written about it a long time ago. i also realize that i have really, really stupid ideas some of the time.

hello, i'm jezzah and we're really very poor. i'm trying my best to function as best as i can, and i'm trying to overcome my baser, more materialistic and whiny nature. i think i really am getting stronger, and i hope to someday find meaning in all this mess.

i hope you guys a meaningful christmas!

 

 
 
08 December 2008 @ 06:22 am
I have a new cellphone number, a new landline, a new address. Technically, this is turning over a new leaf - but the turning is making me sick; I'm hanging over the edges, and I'm desperately clinging to things I've lost that had felt like home.

/end melodrama
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15 April 2008 @ 05:10 am
Livejournal is infinitely better than multiply.

I wouldn't go into detail as to why because then this entry would morph into a spitting monster rant which would be counterproductive to the whole cultivating a more pleasant writing tone thing I'm currently running.

But still. LJ > Multiply. That's a fact.
 
 
Mood: bitchy
Music: sherwood
 
 
This is going to be one hell of a month.

Community Organizing. OHN. Lit Thesis . The Stupid Life Plan.

Good god. I've already spent three hours in front of the PC and still haven't written anything worth a shit for the thesis. Unreasonable naman kasi yung minimum ten pages for introduction, tapos yung sa minor themes one paragraph lang. That prof is a psych case, I'm telling you.

This writer's block cannot be any more badly timed. Please please cooperate, brain, and don't desert me in my time of need.
 
 
Mood: stressed
Music: walk away - funeral for a friend
 
 
14 January 2008 @ 09:38 am

If you have been hearing stories from a certain obese, holier-than-thou nun about a third year student who was so disgustingly profane in her autobiography, you now have the unique privilage of meeting the actual specimen. I do not welcome recrimination at this moment--perhaps later when I have had sufficiently caffeinated myself--because I need to rant. 

I would NOT change my autobiography just to suit your PC standards. It was my autobiography, not yours. I talked about books because books have become a big part of my life; I said I'm lazy because I am; I called a patient a burden because I felt that she is, which reminds me--don't fucking dare tell me what I should be feeling. Your I-wonder-how-your-CI's-will-react-to-this-particular-piece-of-information threats are so low, even for you.

I am not ashamed of what I wrote. If you managed to read through the entirity of it, and not merely played the I spy a cuss word game, then you would know that I am a morally decent person. You do not deserve to read my autobiography, and I am not about to encourage your bigoted view of the world by kissing your pompous ass and changing it.

***

Anyway, there is a bright spot in all of this: I have inadvertently created my legacy in this college. The bitch would no doubt talk about  my autobiography for as long as she lives because she's that obsessive a person. I guess this is what could be called infamy.