just type...don't reread...don't delete...
class tonight. I didn't want to go. I am a bit behind. so, technically, I should not be on my blog. I don't like my writing class. tonight was actually great, though, because I connected. with joan, who sits beside me. human connection is rather limited these days. except for hitting refresh on facebook. need to change this. need to get brave again. meet some people. but, back to class. I didn't want to go. because I didn't go last week. because professor sent email saying get to class. but I am so busy. and, it's boring. he reads from powerpoints. two hours of MLA rules tonight. why not a controversial writing prompt to stir our minds...not just about writing, but about life? I like my history class. really like my history class. teacher is cool. if I can connect with teacher, I work harder. history teacher likes me. history teacher gets me. do I need everyone to like me? my sister would tell me I'm looking too deep. I need a little positive feedback. more than I thought. too much criticism paralyzes me. yes, I want to get better. just build me up a bit first. believe in me. I'm rereading. wanting to delete. the killers just came on pandora. turning up music. I should turn it down. but it is the killers. neighbors will understand. and normally on thursday nights, neighbors sound like they are jump roping. with tow truck chains. in wooden shoes. back to class. we meet in the computer lab. I was bored. again. I ducked below the screen and whispered to joan, "how many classes have you missed?" "Three," she whispered back, before adding, "I'm bored out of my mind." and I wanted to jump up and down. because I felt understood. I love feeling understood. holly understands me. eating cucumbers right now. joan rocks. my dad is going to call and tell me not to miss class. but then I will tell him about my history class. and how my professor told me I make him think. that sounded vain. I don't like vain. but I can't delete. ate lunch on a bench just outside of the capital. or is it capitol. can't delete. back to lunch. street vendor. I got the cart special. thick pita...with grilled chicken, bleu cheese, dried cherries and walnuts. lunched in good company. three of us sat on the bench under a cloudless sky, eating cart specials. I took a mental picture. and another at Sav's volleyball game. where she hugged me. and called me mama.
it was a good day.
g'nite.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
she rambles.
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25 comments:
Love it. So refreshing. There is something to be said about letting it flow. Funny how many times I went back and deleted and retyped just this comment!
yes!!! I get it, Annie!
Love this. So honest and truthful. Your English class does sound boring...and that sucks. Hang in there--you can do it!! :)
Deanna
As a student myself, I get it. I understand. You are not alone. You can rock this!
Woah, you're taking TWO classes? Big props to you, girl! Totally admire that.
I hope you realize that you connect when you ramble. I happen to love that. I read this and feel you. FB? Well, I deleted mine. Feels so good. I too need that human connection - it is so much more healthy. I just need to gain the strength and courage to do it. Get back to who I was before "crap" happened around here....Sounds like you are walking that same road. I loved this post. Hope it made you feel good. And I'm glad you didn't...delete..
Reads from a powerpoint?!?! Ughhh...
The hot dog cart was by LCC on Wednesday! I love street vendor food!
I like you. That counts for something, eh? This post made me giggle because I STILL have nightmares that I can't get my degree because I've skipped too many classes....I believe I only went to a total of 9 classes for a full-year advanced (coma-inducing) calculus class because discussing matrices bored me to the point of drool. Had to do it, though. Spent the night before every exam photocopying sheets of notes from perfect students, read and memorized all night, and got 'er done. The hard way, mind you. But hey, these conflicts are a necessary function of growth; they make you realize what you're made of and what you want (or don't) from this life. I think you rock. And I think you likely should be teaching a writing class...
Jump roping with tow truck chains in wooden shoes. Love it.
I know that I don't know you but there is something powerful about your writing. It connects in a unexplainable way.
You are brave not to delete.
Good luck with school. . .
I love being called mama. Cade is starting to make the switch to "mom" and it makes me a little sad.
I love when you write. I pretend we have a connection when I read your words. I need more Carin in my life.
Carin,
I soooooooooooooo understand (i just added more o's to the "so" for emphasis and thought wait, 'i can't go back'....but adding isn't going back, right?) and relate to rereading and wanting to delete. But what I noticed reading your blog is that the times when you said you had the urge to delete are the times that your writing got me hooked, pulled me in deeper, made me go 'you too? that's how i feel.' I don't know you but I have love for you and think you rock the world! when you resist the urge and write on, it reminds me that it is an allusion that we are all seperate and we are all more connected than we can conceive.
much love, Val-Marie
one of you best posts yet!
hmmm.....i wonder if i could do a don't delete post? i love thiS!
Well hello lovey!!! And guess what, you KNOW it!!! I absolutely LOVE IT when that kind of friendship forms & begins as though you have known this beautiful soul you are bonding with over anything, everything, in between & nothing! And, it is a silent, yet never overlooked, never overshadowed, always front & center respect, understanding, a quiet dignity-no matter how hard we laugh-and oh yea, the laughing. That happy simple act in itself can bond two for life. If thats true, then we are all set, mamsita!!!
And seeing that it is becoming later & later (long day, longer story, but a beautiful one, Carin. I simply cannot WAIT to share the stories. Brace yourself.)
So, it with a warm smile on my soul, that I simply say to you, my sista: I. Got. You. Babe. And I always will.
And as I see it, not only will I end the day with that smile & that awesome fortunate & comforting feeling of having a "knowing": friend for life, but I have already decided to begin the day too, with a smile. Compliments of CJS. And all her amazing, beautiful, insightful, make no apologies "ramblings". That, my friend, is what makes you, CJS.
xoxo
H.
Oh, PS: Your heart has already written a thousand short stories, poems, sonnets & love letters to life. Your 3 amazing, strong, beautiful girls have led the way & filled in the body of your story. We all get stuck along the road. Reach into your soul and pull out that reservoir of the passion you have for this life. it is there. We have discussed it. It does exist, if you want it to exist! We all experience the unpleasant side-effect (there are too many) of criticism, one that does paralyze our voices, our souls, the one that causes that hard, hurtful fall down, as we all do. Me especially. Jeez. Lately, I have seem to spent a little too much time down here, I am wondering if it is time to send for more reinforcements to get me the hell back up there! I mean, My God! Enough already! I WANT TO LIVE! (hahahahaha). K, its late. here's the deal: You can do this. I know you can. You know you can. Your girls know you can. You. Can. You. Will. Know why? You. Already. Have. xoxoxoxo.
I like Joan. It is capital if it is a city and capitol if it is a building--in elementary school my teacher taught us "..al like lansing, ..ol like dome." Reading from Power Point--poor teaching, redundant. My favorite teachers learned with us. Sometimes we have to just go to class and get our grade and then learn...or learn in the class with whispers to Joan. Your neighbors called and said the music is too loud. I told them, "Shut up!" I think they keyed your car. Go State!
"I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you." ~Blaise Pascal
"human connection is rather limited these days. except for hitting refresh on facebook."
LOL.
ou make me think, too!!! :)
(go to class)
,,,stay in school,,,(smile)
I will buy film for your mental pictures.
What a lovely soul you are.
This is exactly what I needed to read tonight before bed. This: I need a little positive feedback. more than I thought. too much criticism paralyzes me. yes, I want to get better. just build me up a bit first. believe in me. I'm rereading. wanting to delete.
It's feels good to feel got.
i get you.
i've never written here before, but this is what i'm living right now.
21, last year of university, and hating almost all my english classes- and get this, i am an english major. i hate having my writing graded, feel useless when marked terribly.
have gone to all my classes so far this year, a first for me.
i get you.
thanks for this.
your honesty is so inspiring. i really enjoyed this post...
Somewhere along the way, I became a superb editor- and not the writing kind.
I'm pretty sure I abuse my "delete button" on a daily basis.
Hoping to catch some of your bravery....
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