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| User: | alyndria (1236591) |
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| Name: | Jenna | |||||
| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1987-01-21 | |||||
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| AOL IM: |  alyndria121 (Add Buddy, Send Message) | |||||
| Bio: | I'm 21. I live on the North Shore with my parents (yay for paying off debt). Currently working two part time jobs and going to school part time. That's pretty much my life, for the moment. Oh, and I like books.  "At the heart of our matter as human beings really the best thing of all is passion. Passion for another person, passion for a job, a cause, even passion for a book. Maybe that's even what it is all about at the end of the day-- our purpose: trying to furnish your life with so many different kinds of passion that everywhere in it there is something that fills you to bursting and makes you want to tell the whole world about it." --Jonathan Carroll  "the lesson of the moth" Don Marquis i was talking to a moth the other evening he was trying to break into an electric light bulb and fry himself on the wires why do you fellows pull this stunt i asked him because it is the conventional thing for moths or why if that had been an uncovered candle instead of an electric light bulb you would now be a small unsightly cinder have you no sense plenty of it he answered but at times we get tired of using it we get bored with the routine and crave beauty and excitement fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while so we wad all our life up into one little roll and then we shoot the roll that is what life is for it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty our attitude toward life is come easy go easy we are like human beings used to be before they became too civilized to enjoy themselves and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself --- "Children's Song" R.S. Thomas We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. And though you probe and pry With analytic eye, And eavesdrop all our talk With an amused look, You cannot find the centre Where we dance, where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower, Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven. --- "On Turning Ten" Billy Collins The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad light-- a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten the perfect simplicity of being one and the beautiful complexity introduced by two. But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit. At four I was an Arabian wizard. I could make myself invisible by drinking a glass of milk a certain way. At seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince. But now I am mostly at the window watching the late afternoon light. Back then it never fell so solemnly against the side of my tree house, and my bicycle never leaned against the garage as it does today, all the dark blue speed drained out of it. This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself, as I walk through the universe in my sneakers. It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number. It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. ------------ ...and for the curious, my LJ is mostly friends-only. | |||||
| Memories:: | 60 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public | |||||
| Interests: | 96: agnosticism, agoraphobia, alpha phi omega, animals, anxiety, apo, art, artists, babysitting, biographies, board games, books, boston, bowling, calvin and hobbes, cheese, cities, clouds, comedy, community service, cookies, depression, discovery channel, down comforters, dr. seuss, dragons, eddie izzard, education, exploring, eyelashes, fantasy, feeling with my eyes, fiction, firefox, guitar hero, guns, heavy blankets, history, impossible dreams, into the woods, italy, jim henson, jonathan carroll, juice boxes, kids, languages, laser quest, libraries, lucille ball, marilyn monroe, me, mel brooks, museums, music, musicals, north shore community college, nscc, pasta, people watching, photography, pixar, poetry, portraits, questionable content, rain, red rover, reptiles, robert mccammon, s'mores, scavenger hunts, self portraits, shiny things, sledding, snakes, sociology, socks, soy milk, stars, sushi, sweatshirts, tea, traveling, treehouses, tv land, twitter, underwater creatures, useless trivia, video games, volunteering, walking, what's my line?, whiskey sours, working with kids, xkcd, you, | |||||
| Schools: | Fuller School - Gloucester, MA (1996 - 1998) O'Maley Middle School - Gloucester, MA (1998 - 2001) North Shore Technical High School - Middleton, MA (2001 - 2005) Rowan University - Glassboro, NJ (2005 - 2006) North Shore Community College - Lynn, MA (2008 - present) | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 46: _lostinaworld, anadandy, animalcracker24, beautifulraven, bigc975, bitterjoymoon, bulrogue, captain_quint, chocolatemog, conman711, crossbonestyle, dark_raven87, dark_reaver, eimiayumi, galeforcewynd, godswraith, grinning_fox, i_heart_311, ice_cream_eyes, jrc520, ketala, kung_fu_monkey7, lediva, maeveenroute, marinshe, monkeyjb, muffinflavored, northshore_hxc, pjainey, raz_a_ma_taz, sairisse, sandjampanda, sirenphotos, sotp_chris, superrob, sushigrade, tales_of_wonder, termonfeckin, the___distance, theeyeofket, thelorelei15, thielpoems, tianaran, triplehdm, wafflesizzle, your_obsession_ | |||||
| Also Friend of: | 25: 1000_things, adversion, christine012184, coscaram, da_rk_knight, dr_chad, emperor799, exteriorization, fallen_angel_gt, flame_bitch, get_medieval, hereticprincess, jackgable, jim_lad, lilbit7287, manlypanda, mutefuzzybard, queenrose24, ronsonbeck, salty_jesus, synthshadows, thegoldenginnie, vermiciousknidd, whaleomlette, xxxdmcxxx26 | |||||
| Member of: | 28: amused_library, b0st0n, bad_sex, bakebakebake, bentolunch, boston_teaparty, cornsnakes, customers_suck, digitalslr, elem_ed, elementaryed, fearthebook, food_porn, foragoodworld, friendsofjt, girl_gamers, herpers, iteach2ndgrade, iteach3rdgrade, jamaicaplain, metaquotes, mock_the_stupid, nikon_d50, panic_anxiety, projectanvil, rokk_heroes, super_supper, tempwork | |||||
| Account type: | Plus Account | |||||
