But I am also so very happy.

People think it’s depressing that I have very few friends left from my hometown, and my high school.

People also think it’s depressing that most nights, unless I have work, intramural soccer, or class, I stay in my dorm room and watch TV on my computer or read.

And to them, I say that it must be difficult to require constant stimulation. To require human contact at all waking hours.

I live with three of my best friends in the entire world.

I have a YouTube show called Cooking with Gandalf, starring a motion censored, talking, armless Gandalf the Grey figurine.

I wrote a three minute play about zombies and a theater group on campus performed it.

I am a regular at the greatest independent coffee shop in the world.

I get to travel to Brussels in less than a year for speech and debate, and over the past two years I’ve also gotten to go to Budapest and Rome with them.

I live in Oregon.

I get to perform slam poetry at two different venues and get compliments every time I do.

I have moleskines filled to the brim with poetry and sections of fiction.

Owl City retweeted me last week.

Steve Kluger replied to my email (twice) a year ago.

I’m part of an international collab channel with six complete strangers who love all the same things I do.

I am a nerdfighter.

I am a junior in college.

I am alive.

Save your pity. I’m too busy having fun to require it.

…. Poetry that you don’t get to read. Yet. But for having a fiction focus for my creative writing major, I sure have been writing and performing a lot of poetry. Continue reading “An Abundance of Poetry” →

WELCOME BACK!!!

I still can’t stop thinking about those paper cranes, so when we were tasked with writing a “still life” poem last week in poetry class, I couldn’t help but revisit them again. The actual assignment was to write a poem mirroring the style of a William Carlos Williams poem (which was merely OK) so I did the assignment but then wrote my own version of the poem. Thoughts? Continue reading “The Paper Crane Ninja: Poetry Remix” →

So I didn’t blog yesterday. My bad. In my defense, however, this is what my weekend looked like: Continue reading “Ahem.” →