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  <title>Alex says, &quot;HOWDY!&quot;</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:38:32 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>maybe it seems that I&apos;m the one that gets thrown out in the trash.&lt;br /&gt;again and again&lt;br /&gt;maybe it&apos;s my fault, but somehow I don&apos;t really think it is.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:54:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>so long sucker</title>
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  <description>now that I have nothing to worry about, I feel like something&apos;s wrong.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;like I can&apos;t be content.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;it&apos;ll pass&lt;br /&gt;this semester was wonderful and terrible all at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;I made an A in my first college class... and made a C in physics&lt;br /&gt;it&apos;s all well and good though&lt;br /&gt;I got some things done today&lt;br /&gt;no shoes, but presents to all.&lt;br /&gt;there are bats in my attic&lt;br /&gt;the waste smells terrible and apparently it&apos;s toxic&lt;br /&gt;they&apos;ll be gone soon... hopefully.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m confused and sure all at once.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m depressed and happy.&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s all a cycle.&lt;br /&gt;but lately it&apos;s a cycle that turns very quickly&lt;br /&gt;maybe it&apos;s just... my cycle&lt;br /&gt;I love life, even though it&apos;s tough right now&lt;br /&gt;I had to give my mom some of my money a few times now.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m okay with it... it&apos;s just weird.&lt;br /&gt;I guess times are hard, but I&apos;ll appreciate them later.&lt;br /&gt;I no longer want to think about the future.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m excited and scared for it, but I can&apos;t think about it.&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;ll have to wait... and so will I.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merry Christmas.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:15:57 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Serenity</title>
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  <description>It&apos;s quiet today.&amp;nbsp; Silent.&amp;nbsp; The cold weather seems to do that to sound.&amp;nbsp; No one around, not even a sound.&amp;nbsp; Like the town is all asleep mid-afternoon.&amp;nbsp; I love this walk.&amp;nbsp; I almost love it even more now that it&apos;s brisk.&amp;nbsp; Maybe I love it for different reasons.&amp;nbsp; Quiet.&amp;nbsp; Silent.&amp;nbsp; Where is the world?&amp;nbsp; -Hiding in it&apos;s heated den.&amp;nbsp; Hiding from dry skin and white knuckles.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s not so bad.&amp;nbsp; I like the walk today.&amp;nbsp; The trees, the light green spaces in the grass where the bright light shines through.&amp;nbsp; That is my favorite.&amp;nbsp; Those special spots make me warm and fuzzy just by looking.&amp;nbsp; Times like this make me wonder how I ever leave the world outside.&amp;nbsp; Why do I ever escape to the indoors?... with the stale heat cracking mu lips and drying my skin...&amp;nbsp; The cold seems to make me feel more alive, or do I feel less alive?&amp;nbsp; Sleep or surge... it only depends.&amp;nbsp; The cold is strange that way.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps, that is part of the invigorating, the unknown.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;---And now... sitting here... everything seems right with the world.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m at peace.&amp;nbsp; Partly, it&apos;s this same cool, crispness, surrounding me.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s that same wonderful part of the day when the special places come out, when the light shines in all the right spaces.&amp;nbsp; For some reason, it makes me feel loved... like it&apos;s a work of God, only for me.&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t even know if it&apos;s true anymore, but I&apos;ll keep to what I like to tell myself.&amp;nbsp; Aside from if I know, it has to be something great, something more wonderful than me, something so much more powerful.&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t know why, and it sounds crazy.&amp;nbsp; Somehow, I just know.&lt;br /&gt;---I don&apos;t know anything about life anymore.&amp;nbsp; The days have really started boiling down to the present.&amp;nbsp; The future no longer has the same importance as it once had.&amp;nbsp; This should terrify me, but it&apos;s strangely enticing.&amp;nbsp; Somehow I know everything will be alright.&amp;nbsp; Nothing is about impressing or excelling to the highest point anymore, and I&apos;m strangely okay with that.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m starting to appreciate the little things so much more than before.&amp;nbsp; I feel more alive than I ever have.&amp;nbsp; I feel more normal, more together, more pieced to one.&amp;nbsp; How do I know?&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t.&amp;nbsp; I just believe.&amp;nbsp; Maybe this is me taking another giant leap back to faith.&amp;nbsp; Maybe not.&amp;nbsp; But... I sure hope so.&amp;nbsp; One thing&apos;s for certain; it&apos;s gone, and maybe not on the surface, but deep down, I want it back.&amp;nbsp; I want it back so badly.&amp;nbsp; Though it will have to wait.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;---This peace is inviting.&amp;nbsp; I want more.&amp;nbsp; I have no idea how long it will remain, but that&apos;s okay too.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m at one with my circumstances, if that makes any sense at all.&amp;nbsp; I no longer care.&amp;nbsp; At times, I have inklings of doubt, but I swiftly push them away.&amp;nbsp; This might only be another cycle, but I will hold onto this empowerment for as long as I may.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s no longer about one I will please from day to day, or friends I obsess about, situations I analyze, people who pull me down, ideas that push me sinking.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m up high.&amp;nbsp; No one can REACH ME!&amp;nbsp; I feel close to untouchable.&amp;nbsp; I feel amazing.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m not sure what to do with myself.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:29:45 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>this is strange.&amp;nbsp; this is really really strange.&amp;nbsp; it&apos;s my mistake, but I didn&apos;t want it this way.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;take me away.&amp;nbsp; take me away.&amp;nbsp; oh so very far away.&lt;br /&gt;I cannot wait.&amp;nbsp; I cannot wait for things to change.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s killing me.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s slowly killing me.&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s not the way.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s not the way I want it to play.&lt;br /&gt;this is strange.&amp;nbsp; This is oh so very strange.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Nothing is the same.&lt;br /&gt;but I can&apos;t complain&lt;br /&gt;got to keep on going&lt;br /&gt;got to mask the pain&lt;br /&gt;this is so strange.&amp;nbsp; things are very far away.&lt;br /&gt;nothing is right.&lt;br /&gt;not anything can be changed.&lt;br /&gt;I need some power&lt;br /&gt;I need some change&lt;br /&gt;but that change&lt;br /&gt;that change is so very very strange.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:01:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>quams with the mundane</title>
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  <description>so why do I even bother?&lt;br /&gt;I feel alright during the day mostly, but when I sit to think it all comes crashing down.&lt;br /&gt;I feel like the&amp;nbsp;most oblivious person in the world.&amp;nbsp; Why does that always happen?&lt;br /&gt;I just want someone who gives me the appreciation I deserve... and vis versa.&lt;br /&gt;and how can I possibly function well with all of this?&lt;br /&gt;These family issues are really baring down on me.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, I feel I can&apos;t breathe.&lt;br /&gt;I just feel completely confused at times and completely happy another...&lt;br /&gt;but a lot of the confusion comes from the fact that I realize the happiness was blindsighted.&lt;br /&gt;and why am I all of the sudden a terrible writer?&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m hating this class and hating myself for hating it.&lt;br /&gt;maybe I don&apos;t &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; it, but it&apos;s definiately giving me an ego bruiser.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;so what now?&lt;br /&gt;oh yeah, so I&apos;m at seems with the fact that I&apos;m still lonely, never having a date and the only person that really seems to mind me is someone I&apos;d rather stay friends with.&amp;nbsp; Why does that happen?&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t understand the cards God has delt me.&lt;br /&gt;not to mention, I come to find that the Homecoming dance is about two weeks from now.&amp;nbsp; :/&amp;nbsp; I would like to go.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s my senior year.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m trying to make the most of it.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Really, I&apos;m feeling like I&apos;m moving on from them, but every so often I get pulled back... by them or by the fact that I still seem unsettled.&lt;br /&gt;and it&apos;s like I don&apos;t know anyone... that I&apos;d like to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and on a pathetic note, I saw someone driving today... but&amp;nbsp;he didn&apos;t see&amp;nbsp;me&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;apparently he asked for my number before, but who&apos;s to know if he was even serious.&lt;br /&gt;I guess he&apos;s known to pull that.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:36:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>a new kind</title>
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  <description>I&amp;nbsp;can&apos;t express what I&apos;m&amp;nbsp;feeling right now.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:32:30 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>new days ahead</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;so another year has come.&lt;br /&gt;better classes&lt;br /&gt;seems more carefree&lt;br /&gt;seems easier&lt;br /&gt;but I know it&apos;s not&lt;br /&gt;but something&apos;s off&lt;br /&gt;something&apos;s strange&lt;br /&gt;I feel strange&lt;br /&gt;I feel better, but strange&lt;br /&gt;not sure about my peers&lt;br /&gt;part of me just wants to say the hell with it I want to go to college&lt;br /&gt;but I want this to work&lt;br /&gt;I want to have a good year&lt;br /&gt;I have to try to be positive&lt;br /&gt;which I&apos;ve managed to do so far&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m not upset or angry&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m just slightly confused&lt;br /&gt;everyone feels distant&lt;br /&gt;not sure if I even want to become that close to them again&lt;br /&gt;but it feels strange not to&lt;br /&gt;not sure if it&apos;s worth forgiving, but i suppose that&apos;s the right thing to do&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m automatically forgiving... but considering it later and wondering if it&apos;s the right choice&lt;br /&gt;as far as NEW people are concerned, I&apos;m almost thinking: what&apos;s the point?&lt;br /&gt;no one seems to be interested, even if I put myself out there&lt;br /&gt;they&apos;re either too stuck up or too nervous also, i guess&lt;br /&gt;it&apos;s like... I spend my days... talking very little&lt;br /&gt;it&apos;s strange&lt;br /&gt;maybe it&apos;s something I need to think about because if I didn&apos;t I would just go on by myself and not socialize hardly at all&lt;br /&gt;it IS strange&lt;br /&gt;and my best friend has a more serious boyfriend&lt;br /&gt;and the other, i&apos;m not sure</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:41:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I hate</title>
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  <description>everything I wish I could be and how it always seems never enough.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>some people</title>
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  <description>make me sick to my stomach&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m just feeling sick to my stomach&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:24:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>well now I&apos;m just confused</title>
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  <description>This school year will either be really fun or will be the&amp;nbsp;hardest, most horrific year of my life.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People keep telling me I need to concentrate on colleges and believe me I have and I do...&lt;br /&gt;but now the more I think about it, the harder it is.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:05:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>hope</title>
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  <description>It sucks when someone you once felt guilty for being prejudice against...&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;You realize you were somewhat right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t understand some people, but then I understand perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;So I read someone&apos;s blog today.&lt;br /&gt;It was concerning his faith or lack there of, his shifted morals and whatnot.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;For a moment, I couldn&apos;t believe and felt a sort of relief when I read it.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m losing... or may have almost already lost my faith, as well.&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s really hard.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s a small battle going on in my heart.&lt;br /&gt;The worst part is that, for some reason, I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; I have no control over it.&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s out of my hands.&amp;nbsp; like... I could do my part, but it&apos;ll have to come back with time.&lt;br /&gt;I want it back so badly - that relationship, but I can&apos;t force it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He mentioned some of the same things, without the actual idea that he wants it back.&lt;br /&gt;He just gave up.&lt;br /&gt;He&apos;s given up and he has no desire to change.&amp;nbsp; He says he wants to go back to when he still had morals, before the girls, the drugs, etc.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s the part that hit me the hardest.&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t understand... or don&apos;t want to understand that he truly believes that&apos;s the way it goes.&lt;br /&gt;Are you serious?&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to tell him that girls, drugs, other people, or any other obstacle is in no way responsible for his loss of morals... his loss of faith.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to tell him that it was all on him.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to tell him that if he really wanted it back, he wouldn&apos;t be speaking that way.&lt;br /&gt;He&apos;s giving up because &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; wants to give up - not anything else.&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to tell him because I was afraid he had no idea.&lt;br /&gt;but how am I supposed to know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn&apos;t tell him because I was afraid.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I was afraid it wouldn&apos;t be my place, that I might come on too strong, that I might upset him... or myself for a wrong reason.&lt;br /&gt;I was afraid to speak up.&amp;nbsp; that&amp;nbsp;it might seem like I was lecturing him.&lt;br /&gt;and&amp;nbsp;then I realized that&apos;s what&apos;s wrong with me... with our nation&lt;br /&gt;but maybe that&apos;s the struggle with &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;We&apos;re too afraid to speak up. Then, when someone actually does, they don&apos;t know when to stop.&amp;nbsp; Then, no one knows when to stop.&lt;br /&gt;No one knows balance.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s what creates chaos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then, I noticed I&apos;m having the same problem he has.&lt;br /&gt;My relationship with God is dwindling not because of high school, boys, or drugs...&lt;br /&gt;but because of home life, my father, my mother, myself.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m loosing it because I&apos;m confused.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Knowledge is trying to kill it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;that constant self exploration&lt;br /&gt;I try to fight back, but a huge part of me doesn&apos;t care, is too skeptical.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m not doubting if God is there.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m doubting &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; he is and in what way... with me.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m doubting if I can trust people.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m doubting teachers, and peers.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m doubting people.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;That is my block from him.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m just waiting.&lt;br /&gt;I try so hard.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I pull that imaginary line connected to him, but it never moves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then...&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;the difference between him and I...&lt;br /&gt;I still have hope.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:41:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>the hard part</title>
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  <description>is telling myself to be patient&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:15:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>damn you, mailman</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;so I suppose I&apos;m no good at AP exams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My record isn&apos;t very impressive.&amp;nbsp; In fact, it&apos;s down right pitiful.&lt;br /&gt;I might have been able to study harder...&lt;br /&gt;but I do have this awful sense of signing up for things I very well am not ready for.&lt;br /&gt;What a terribly hard exam.&lt;br /&gt;AP Latin Literature&lt;br /&gt;kiss my ass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at least I made out with a B &amp;amp; A</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:08:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>deceiving</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;Sometimes when someone references a great quote... I stop and wonder if they really appreciate or even understand its meaning.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It might be difficult for me to genuinely have affection for someone again.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:23:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Also</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Lately, I&apos;ve felt as though I can&apos;t help but to be happy...&lt;br /&gt;Even when I feel I &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It might be the hormones I&apos;m taking for my acne, and probably is, but I also can&apos;t help but to think it might be that this weight feel like it&apos;s been lifted off my shoulders.&amp;nbsp; It really does.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t know.&amp;nbsp; I think I&apos;m just going to trust in my family for a while.&amp;nbsp; until things pan out.&amp;nbsp; until I feel at ease with my peers.&lt;br /&gt;haha &quot;at ease with my peers&quot;.&amp;nbsp; that&apos;s a funny concept.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>eyes wide open</title>
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  <description>So, I&apos;m finding it sort of hard to decide where I stand now...&lt;br /&gt;you know, with myself.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suddenly couldn&apos;t give a shit about my well... so-called friends.&lt;br /&gt;(reminds me of trainspotting)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m really oscillated between my old thoughts and self to this new found desire to forget everyone, just fuck it.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe not everyone, but some ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know, maybe I&apos;ve just been pushed too far this time.&amp;nbsp; Suppose I&apos;ve just had enough.&lt;br /&gt;It really makes me sick thinking how I knew I was a doormat all along... just lying to myself.&lt;br /&gt;makes it sting that much more&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&apos;t help but to realize that I might have gone wrong somewhere.&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t feel like I&apos;m given&amp;nbsp;any sort of respect, no matter what they say.&lt;br /&gt;All I see are a bunch of lies.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I&apos;m completely wrong to assume this,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;but part of me -or most of me -really doesn&apos;t believe I&apos;m &quot;assuming.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So yeah.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m thinking I need some time away.&lt;br /&gt;I wish I could start over, at least partially, and meet new people, make new friends, cultivate the older ones.&lt;br /&gt;but... that part of me is just too scared, too frightened... that I might get hurt all over again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know, I know, but I just can&apos;t help but to think it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m feel ready and I desire to move on to new things.&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s really a drag when you realize (that assuming that I don&apos;t believe is &quot;assuming&quot;) that you&apos;re friend probably thinks you&apos;re a boring, predictable human being.&amp;nbsp; You&apos;re so cool, but only sometimes.&amp;nbsp; You&apos;re only wanted when they&apos;re in the mood.&amp;nbsp; That you&apos;ll never be enough to truly have fun with.&amp;nbsp; She leaves you when she&apos;s ready to be spontaneous, when really you realize she knows nothing about you.&amp;nbsp; You realize that you&apos;ve never really been able to be yourself around her... for some strange, unexplainable reason.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She thinks she can see through you, but she sorely mistaken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I might be ready to move on to new things.&lt;br /&gt;but then that other part of me... that one that always holds me back, but in the end makes me feel like a genuine person,&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;(oh yeah, my conscience)&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;it&apos;s afraid I&apos;ll hurt someone... in all my new plans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I guess this is my predicament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I have one more question.&lt;br /&gt;How did it ever come to be this way?</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 02:32:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>haha</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;so.&amp;nbsp; I guess signing on this thing for the first time in I can&apos;t remember was a bad idea.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;it&apos;s best not to think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;watching all the kids frolic around and play down the sidewalk.&lt;br /&gt;one of those same kids asking me why I still have homework?&lt;br /&gt;while my grades seem to be escalating due to my two absences... what?&lt;br /&gt;sick (mentally)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well, if I can get through this week, I shall be golden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on the upside, no more latin.&amp;nbsp; and after tomorrow, REALLY no more latin.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m in one of those funks again where I really need a haircut and the world seems impossible.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I shall prevail.&amp;nbsp; eventually.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;233&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;http://a869.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/92/l_0d6e41636d3af635bf5af00a15efaaa4.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;haha&amp;nbsp; i guess this is sort of an inside joke&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:37:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;I&apos;m really jealous of all the seniors.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the end</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:17:57 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;Why does it seem that every guy I&apos;d like to get to know... I&apos;m just not good enough for?</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>PLEASEEEE</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;tomorrow = winterfest + sundress day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forecast for tomorrow is partly cloudy, but mostly sunny, delightful skies... accompanied by shortened classes, large quantities of food, friends, activities, music, dresses, and possibly a moonwalk of some sort or another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hopefully dazed morning and a carefree afternoon, followed by one more day of school and a weekend of work, play, work, play, work, play.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:12:48 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Steady rollin, I keep going</title>
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  <description>Circumstances are seeming strange again.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;But what I&apos;ve just noticed is that when things seem &quot;strange&quot;&amp;nbsp;or &quot;completely different,&quot;&amp;nbsp; it&apos;s just that I&apos;m unsatisfied with my current state/state with others.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&apos;t handle the mundane very well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suppose I did the semi-noble thing. &lt;br /&gt;I feel better now about it, but now am ended with the same griping feeling of emptiness.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my biggest pet peeves... or rather one of the things that make me feel terrible, are when people that are close to me keep something from me.&amp;nbsp; something I would&apos;ve thought they&apos;d tell me.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Spare me feelings.&amp;nbsp; Forget the fact that you think it would make me feel uncomfortable.&amp;nbsp; Nothing is more important to me than knowing new things about my friends or family members. &lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m going to be happy for you, no matter what.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m going to want to help you no matter what.&amp;nbsp; Nothing would get in the way of that. &lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s happened a number of times lately, but twice this week.&amp;nbsp; Sure, that&apos;s just the way people operate.&amp;nbsp; I just wish they could be assured they can be honest with me.&amp;nbsp; I guess they are now.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s just that blowing feeling when you found out... when you had a suspension in the first place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish I had something happy to write about.&amp;nbsp; Much of my life right now, though, is far from it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve been doing that fake smile thing.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s not any good.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;The happy moments are usually sort lived.&amp;nbsp; just moments &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;not trying to sounds &quot;higher than thou,&quot;&amp;nbsp; but I feel pretty grounded and well rounded these days.&amp;nbsp; seems like I&apos;m just trying to wait for everyone else.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;I wish you all would get on my level.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m tired of watching from the outside, looking in.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t really have anyone&amp;nbsp;that I can&amp;nbsp;have an in depth conversation with anymore.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;an intelligent conversation that has nothing to do with petty circumstances or grief.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m still waiting.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:26:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Looking for expectations, but finding nothing...</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/drag0nflyz26/CopyofAlexsPictures045smaller.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best time ever&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/drag0nflyz26/AlexsPictures050smaller.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my back hurts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn&apos;t really expect things to be this difficult and awkward...&lt;br /&gt;but I was just recently told that I&apos;m very bright, but close to socially inept.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;... and I think you might be right, ...Mom.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a late bloomer, they call it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;but, as a result,&amp;nbsp;I&apos;m just pissed off.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:52:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>can&apos;t get it right</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;I&apos;m slowing losing my faith in society.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:10:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>wonderful feelings and terrible memories</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;I just had the best day.&amp;nbsp; !!!!!!!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love my best friends. &lt;br /&gt;I think I hate everyone else &lt;br /&gt;but I love them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was definitely a teaser from summer.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;The weather was perfect.&amp;nbsp; A little slice of freedom.&amp;nbsp; A little bit of love in the form of friendship.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still don&apos;t understand how one person can make me so angry.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m fighting not to become an overly pessimistic person.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and what summer said got me thinking again about that one regret. &lt;br /&gt;Why do the lessons in life have to hurt so much? &lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s just what I have to deal with, I guess.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;and like she said, there will be another one just like him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like Julie says:&amp;nbsp; &quot;I love life!&quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at least for today.&amp;nbsp; :D&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ll try my hardest to keep this feeling on through the week &lt;br /&gt;not sure if it&apos;s going to last past 2nd period tomorrow, but I&apos;ll try.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:30:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I love my dog.</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;so I managed to make myself feel trashy, gross, and guilty all at the same time yesterday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so what if my super ego is really huge?&amp;nbsp; maybe I like it that way.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;teenage wasteland is a terrible place to be.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m looking forward to the age when I get out of it.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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