Educate me.

Sitting in a car without my journal for 6 hours really gets you thinking.  I had so many pieces swirling around my head and no where to write them.  One being education.  I was thinking (in my best Rose's head interpretation) "there's so much I don't know, my god I want to learn everything."  And I realized I never want to stop learning.  I just took a social problems class and I'm pretty sure I'm getting a solid B and the sad thing is I'm better than that.  I could have definitely got an A but I was too lazy and too into going out or doing this.  I'm just so apathetic sometimes.  So from now on it's straight A's.  I mean I could school half those morons in the discussions alone and my teacher kind of gave me props a few times :D  But even with that said.. there is more to learn, deeper to delve, and smarts to be gotten.  Sometimes I meet people who just floor me with their brilliance and knowledge and awareness and I feel put to shame.  I absolutely hate when I can't contribute to a conversation because I just don't know or don't know enough..  that's the only thing I miss about the news station.  When I worked there I was so on current evens and local news.  Sadly some of those stories will haunt me forever.  Often I got too involved especially with missing persons or murder cases.  I remember once a woman called and she was sure her son was the one they had found dead outside a convenience store and hadn't identifies yet.      Or the veteran who had me on the phone for twenty minutes telling me how he had tried to commit suicide back in the day.  But I digress.  Back to the subject at hand.  I've heard we only use 1/3 of our brains.  I'd really like to know how to tap into the other parts.  Sometimes I feel like I've been filled to the brim with information and can't remember what I did last Wednesday but I can recite the pythagorean theorem be heart.  I can't find my way through a place where I spent most of my life but I can navigate perfectly through a city I've been to once, in a language I don't know at all. Hmmm.. so many things I don't know, sometimes I think the first step to wisdom is accepting that you'll never be able to know or understand everything but you should never stop trying.


 So I'm off to another country to explore and hopefully learn some more.  More things about history, about culture, and about myself.  I think this trip will be a nice way to end 24 and prepare for 25.  To grow up but slow down.  And to have some quality time with my family before I move O_O.

Asta Luego.

Rosebud :)

Es maravilloso.

I often have moments.. where I stop.
And look around.
And wonder how the hell I got here.
Things always weirdly fall into place.
That realization.. that a chain of events has occurred to bring me right here.
Today..
While you snore so peacefully next to me. 
Because.
You are always sleeping.

And I type so feverishly.
Because.
I am always writing.

Life may take me different places.
But I will always have this.
Your feet on a pillow.
The dull hum of the air conditioner as kids laugh outside.
The only light that of the tv.. background noise.
While I wonder what you're dreaming of.
And where I will be next week.
And why the wine just almost fell out of the icebox.
And scared the shit out of me.
And the fucking weird things you are doing in your sleep.
That make me laugh.  Seriously.  You are a weirdo.
But I feel at home.
So I'll take this moment.
And wrap it up.
In my heart shaped box.
That cost 2.99.
That I left by my computer.

I am a gear. I am a spool of thread.

"I want to read and learn and dance and burn."

I was thinking about the line between privacy and publicity today.
Especially on things like blogs.  Facebook.  And Myspace?  Who seriously has one of those these days?
But yeah.  Just thinking about where we draw the line between what we post as public and what we keep private.  That's why I don't really like things like social networking and I've been trying my hardest to distance myself which I'm planning to do the entire time I'm traveling.  I like to personally keep A LOT of my life private, I mean I know I have a blog but rarely do I name names or go on rants about specific people or just say too much about what's going on in my actual actual life.. sort of :/

Why is this?

Because I'd rather people get to really know me know me before they make assumptions about who or what I am.  Believe me, first impressions are only that, often who I think someone is the first time we meet is not who I later find them to be at all or how I come to regard them later in my life.  Most of the people who've made major impacts on my life are people who I'd never imagine being there when we first met.  Although I do believe in gut feelings towards others I think that in order to call someone my friend (and I hope people feel the same about me) is to actually sit down and have a meaningful conversation with them... people just think they know me, when really they don't at all.  Either way I've come to find the people that matter the most aren't the ones I talk to on facebook but the ones I see and talk to in real life every day.  I'm always checking my page, looking at my stuff and wondering does this really encompass "Rose"?  Is this an honest representation of me?  Pictures tell a 2D story.. words are clearly thought out, erased, then rewritten to sound better.  So how can something like this really encapsulate somebody truthfully?  I don't think it can.  We don't post pictures of us when we are crying or we untag the ugly ones.  We brag about something good and rant about something bad just to get some sympathy.

It's social masochism at its finest.

Anyblahs.  I hope being more secretive these days = more sexy.  Off to get stuff donez.

Epiphany

And everything makes so much sense now.

a parallel state

Never invite an ant into your home
Tiny vampires will crawl up your arms
searching for blood
or is it water
maybe the Catholics know which one

Never let your mind wander too much
you won't find your way back
always a bit lost in thought
a bit lost in reality
the ghosts haunting you ever so slightly
as they pass through your peripheral vision

Never settle for less
Questions will nest in trees and branches
And refuse to fly away
worse than the Catholics or the ghosts
They'll be permanent fixtures in your home
If you look back you'll turn into salt
Forward and you will be dead

Mind vs Matter

Oh the absurdity!

I think in between sips of diet coke and cabernet.
Oh the things that could happen here.
Or not.  Since I'm hidding in corners and in restrooms and behind buildings alone.  Avoiding people.
It's at times like these I wish I smoked.  Any excuse to slip away and take long drags.  Wrap my lips around thousands of chemicals enveloped by that thin piece of parchment.  Any excuse to avoid a passing stare or a dialogue full of farce, purged passed botox filled lips and slithered through porcelian veneers.  Asking what I do or who I am or how I know so and so.  And I wonder how I get myself into these situations but I also keep my ears open.  Pick up on rich women's diatribes about the latest man she dumped or business men talking stocks and web pages as usual.  It's beginning to get dark and I'm beginning to get drunk.  I avoid the free food but flock to the free drinks.  The bar tender glances up at me as he pours, "how's your night?"  fine fine.  Thank you for the liquid courage now I'll be on my way.  And I slip into the background again as if I were wearing camoflauge.  I morph into a wall, a table and slowly sip my drink as I watch life pass me by.  But what kind of life is this?  Is it real life?  I'm still not sure.  Or sold for that matter.

When I'm Lying Awake at Night.

I've had a lot on my mind.
And it's hard to sleep when you don't know what next step to take.
And you're terrified.
But only a little.
And you remind yourself that most of your adventures start with this feeling.
But never end with it.

Mr. Winston, my new cat, is the very best cat.  He jumps and leaps and bounds around the house.  With the cutest smooshiest face.  And prances whilst he meows.  That kitty meow.  The one that sounds like a squeak toy.  Like every time I squeeze him that sound will escape.  I plan to teach him to walk on a leash.  And be my best friend.  forever.

Happy Fourth of July everyone.
Don't blast your face off with a firecracker.