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New blog!

I will not be using this one again.

http://journeysandmysteries.tumblr.com/

I have two English classes with a girl who is half blind.

We have seven novels and a short story collection between the two classes, but she doesn’t get a short pile of books like the rest of us. Her books have to be printed for her on massive, hard, plastic sheets sized 8.5 x 11, and each novel...

journeys-mysteries

These are instructions on how to deal with every terrible, horrible, no good, bad thing that ever comes your way out of misfortune, your own fault, other people’s faults - everything.

To look life in the face.

Always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is.

At last, to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

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journeys-mysteries

My closest friends used to be mostly girls. Girls didn’t play video games all day. Girls weren’t disgustingly vulgar (I like being vulgar for fun, but for someone to be composed entirely of vulgarity is another matter…). Girls weren’t boorish and rude. Girls were comforting. Girls were easy to...

journeys-mysteries

I really want to be taken care of.

I had a good talk with my friend about how people who get out of relationships are scrambling for distractions. Maybe it’s new people. Maybe it’s an addiction to keep their mind off things. I always feel sad when I see that happening. Not that they’re bad...