all smiles tell one thing: happiness

there's always the debate: who would play you, if your life was a movie. finally, i think i have found an answer.
thank you, katie for pointing it out to me.

♥

flops are good.

The English department recently took a trip to Rollins College in Orlando to see the poet, painter, playwrite, writer Derek Walcott. He read several chapters from the book he published in 1990 Omeros, one of my favorite quotes from the section he read being: "Why did I never miss you until you returned."

But I think the most influential tidbit that I left the reading with was that we (as artists, as people,) have to take risks; we have be put ourselves out there and if we fail then we can say to ourselves "hey, so what you failed, you tried." One of the works that he was the most proud of was a flop, he made it to the "big time" with a paul simon score, but the show didn't do well; it was a "flop," but he could be proud of himself, because he gave it a try. In his opinion, "there are not only a sequence to flops, be a reason," he concluded with this: "the artist is the ulitmate judge of a work."

What I'm saying is: we should do everything with all our might, because in the end, we have to live with the things we've accomplished, or didn't try for.

Pillow Fight!

Pillow fight in front of Toronto City Hall.

I was browsing a site that won the Photoblog of the year: http://mute.rigent.com/index.php
and I found these sets of pictures. I thought it was great!

random...

1. i like to sign my name in lower case letters: charlotte hale.
2. i've had the same quote at the bottom of my email for 2 years: Romans 12:9-13.
3. i don't like to eat soup when i'm alone.
4. i'm terrified about letting people down.
5. i want to move to Oregon
6. i'd never finished a sewing project until 3 weeks ago.
7. when i leave/return to school, i bring only a tenth of my library with me
8. at the moment, my refrigerator is stocked with water, cream cheese, and apple jelly.
9. i like the Bobby Dupea's music
10. when i do laundry at school, i have to have two dryers that are together.
11. i don't like sharp objects.
12. squirrels scare me.
13. i don't mix my food.
14. there's always music playing in my room.
15. when i make to do lists, i put things on there that i've already done, so i can cross them off.
16. i like to drive with barefeet.
17. i have a book of quotes and pictures and drawings that i carry around with me and draw in class.
18. i like old things.
19. i have every paper that i've ever written in folders at home.
20. i'm allergic to cumquats.
21. i don't want to teach.
22. i don't sit in the back of education classes, because i don't want the teacher to call me out.
23. i hate math.
24. when i pull all-nighters, i like to listen to ghetto music.
25. i watch lost, but i really don't like it.
26. i miss pushing daisies.
27. i've never been farther north than south carolina.
28. i can count the number of times i've been to the beach on one hand.
29. i've never seen the pacific ocean.
30, i've never been farther south than st. pete
31. last year was the first time i saw snow white.
32. i've never met anyone with my first name.