in the city of blinding lights

if you can't reconcile your differences, maybe you should just accept that you're different and go from there. be efficient?

it is officially the cutest thing ever when someone tries to flirt in their non-first language. it melts me inside.

I think the whole not caring what people think thing is silly. if you care about people, you care what they think. all of y'all who say you don't care what people think, you do. if you put on clothes in the morning, you do. if you speak differently around adults, you do. if you dress to a certain style, or even if you try not to, you do. you may not want to think that you do, but somewhere in there, you do. it may even be on a subconscious level. I just feel like everyone cares what people think to some degree, but no one is willing to admit it.

I'm like a mini-conquergood over here, ethnograph-ing.

newsflash of my life, I have a plan for it! basically, it goes as follows: I graduate with degrees in comm and international studies, a minor in literature, and attempt to find some work in journalism for a few years. I then go to either graduate school for journalism or to law school for international law. I may also just go straight into grad/law, or do grad, then law later in life. all of these stages are somewhat interchangeable, but at some point I'd like them to happen. I like planning for the career switch, too. this plan feels right. all I have to go on is my gut, and so I will go on. with the gut.

life is pretty exciting, when you think about it, no?