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Sunday, 19 April 2009

Wednesday, 08 April 2009

  • the reason I don't do public interest

      I'm not going to secure government benefits for someone when my paycheck can take my parents off government benefits.

      You talk about helping people in Third World countries. I call them cousins. I know them by name. You go there for the summer. My parents send their meager earnings monthly, sustaining Third World families for over a decade.

      So don't talk to me about how many hours you logged this semester. Don't talk to me about your philanthropic efforts. See, because on the other side, others just like you, talk about how people like me live on handouts...

       so when we try to lift ourselves
       when we try to play the game according to your rules
       when we make it so that we won't need your philanthropy

    don't shoot us down for not being as altruistic as you.
    forgive us
    for our selfishness.

Saturday, 14 March 2009

  • of love and loss

    e.e. cummings said it best:

    it may not always be so;and i say
    that if your lips,which i have loved, should touch
    another's and your dear strong fingers clutch
    his heart, as mine in time not far away;
    if on another's face your sweet hair lay
    in such a silence as i know, or such
    great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
    stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;

    if this should be,i say if this should be-
    you of my heart,send me a little word;
    that i may go unto him,
    and take his hands,saying, Accept all happiness from me.
    Then shall i turn my face,
    and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.

    From him:
    "It will never be goodbye. I won't miss you. I'll always cherish you. I wish it wasn't so hard, but you're stronger than me. You're too smart to be unhappy."

    He came back, for a day, and opened up old wounds again. And we sat together, lamenting the vast distance between us and that pesky Pacific Ocean. In fifty minutes, he's going to board his plane again and I won't be there to wave goodbye.

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

  • so many rants building up, but I think I'll make this a short and sweet one

       In fourth grade, on Valentine's Day, I stuck a secret admirer note in my crush's mailbox. I wrote it in code. I used the code from "Ghostwriters" and signed it "Thabto." I did it exactly the way they did it in the episode too. I wrote in purple marker and stuck a decoder message next to it. (Does anyone remember that episode???) He was very confused and never figured out it was me.
     
       James Goodman, if you're out there, happy belated Valentine's Day. 

Monday, 02 February 2009

  • type A- stuck in a type A world

    It's hard not to get caught up in the anxieties. Where are you interviewing? There are no jobs. So and so got an externship.

    Everyone is nailing down their plans. I have a basic idea of what I want, but no drive, no motivation. In the bigger scheme of things, we'll all be fine and find jobs after graduating. But I'm stuck a world of people who operate on minutae. I feel strangely out of place. Before I came here, I was the one with the life plan, so sure of what she's doing. But in comparison to my law peers? I'm a free spirit. It's disorienting to say the least.


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