Arete of the Gathering Flowers's Blog (10)

omg daily deviation!

OMG DAILY DEVIATION OMG DAILY DEVIATION! OMG I GOT A DAILY DEVIATION! for one of my less lucid pieces at that *sniffle sniffle* theoretical layers by Ellie Dan Kim and the snowflakes that hide behind our eyes, as we compress them to close, melting around our hearts, dampening a too exciting feeling, falling on a cedar tree from whence we fell, laughing, and I think perhaps a one-sided heart cracks its own eggs open. The stones themselves enunciate their p… Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on June 11, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

The transigient infirmities of spring in fact

hello nerdfighters, today has met me in a wonderfully fine mood, so fine a mood in fact that I've decided to finally come back here. So I know you're not wondering "what has put you in such a fine mood Ellie? What makes you so despicably cheerful when a great deal of us spend our days in Missouri?" I'll tell you, please worry, but yet I have some apologies to make and some other miscellaneous news. To Noelle and also to my jedi master and other people I happened to discuss this with Legitimate… Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on June 7, 2009 at 7:04pm — 1 Comment

A Declaration of Independence

I promised a sample of my writing in my last blog post and so here's a short story for y'all to chew on, I put it here as a blog because I don't know where else I would put it. A Declaration of Independence Reality bites. Some mornings you wake up and you just don’t want to be yourself anymore. Some mornings you can’t. Mornings like that the window in my room tempts me a little, tells me to sneak out a while; climb down the tree and go. I hit the street and hesitate for a bit, nostalgia… Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on June 7, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Really? Really now?

I'm sure it would get in the way of me following in the footsteps of my jedi master so even though I know in my head that I will obviously get turned down, I refuse. Why I would make a good ningmaster though is because I am dedicated enough to eat all my competition. that is all. Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on January 27, 2009 at 10:38pm — No Comments

New Year's Resolution

perhaps I'll have a blog post every day. ha. ha. ha. I'm quitting my addiction to bits and bytes, dropping by to say hello, goodbye, and best wishes. I'm not leaving for good, just quitting an addiction and that means that I can't spend a lot of time here trying to relate to people's problems and trying to feel through their experiences because those experiences are yours to keep. More than that I'm trying to live like a person again and that means I can't escape to the net where I know I'll f… Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on January 1, 2009 at 2:20pm — No Comments

I know it's christmas day but I feel like writing

Some mornings I wake up crying, some mornings I wake up laughing, some days I don't wake up and instead awaken still in dream. Most times my demeanor is entirely inappropriate for the context of the day and today, On Christmas it is no different. Since my grandpa's death 3 days ago my journal entries have all been the same, the same central message there, sans the birthday of Jesus Christ and I must say I am not pleased about it. My grandpa was buried on Christmas day, I say was because it is no… Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on December 25, 2008 at 2:50pm — 2 Comments

Finished Looking For Alaska

and not quite ready to read Paper Towns. I have only now realized that all my posts have been on that blog page simulatneously and this one will probably fare no better, quite honestly I didn't think that I would do something like this with people watching my words and probably stabbing me with little tiny metaphorical knives. Honestly, I don't know how I came out of this book alive. I would be glad if my stories made someone believe in something, John Green makes that bit inevitable. He made… Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on November 3, 2008 at 11:54pm — No Comments

Reading Looking For Alaska Pt 2

Alaska just died. I cried. I sighed and put the book down. I realized that while I traveled Miles I was still myself and I can't afford to feel that pain the same way. But her life felt like acid rain imprinting shapes into little shards of stained beer bottles, frozen memories of when she was still alive and when we were still with her. I am this close to screaming, but I can't afford to scream. Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on November 3, 2008 at 10:31pm — 2 Comments

Reading Looking for Alaska

I'm only a few chapters in and I already like it more than I liked An Abundance of Katherines, it's full of so much more life and essence. See the thing is An Abundance of Katherines basically drove me to think "I would never think that, I would never do that" and yet think that the main character was a whole lot like me except that he was more prodigy as I was pseudo-intellectual and Looking for Alaska makes me think "I would never think that, I wish I could do that" and the point is that thes… Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on November 3, 2008 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Reading An Abundance of Katherines.

and taking my third step from being a decepticon. My gosh, people told me that this was the worst of the three(four) books John had written and well, I wish I was John Green. Damn, at first I thought that I liked the book because the main character reminds me of me except more "prodigy" than pseudo-intellectual. Just finished chapter 13 and though I know I knew it, the revelation that Katherine I became Katherine XIX was finishing. I think, maybe I should blow myself up and spew my actual wor… Continue

Added by Arete of the Gathering Flowers on November 3, 2008 at 12:05am — No Comments