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also my attention span on these meds is like... next to nothing its so hard to deal with im used to reading books for like 3 hours at a time now i cant even make it through a chapter umm

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on the upside i did write some pretty kickass poetry over this whole ordeal 

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ok heres a recap of the past three weeks of my life :~)

moved into my apartment

had a lot of fun

had a psychotic break

spent 5 days in a psych unit

took the semester off from college

moved home

now i just sleep all day bc meds

yeah

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i move into my apt tomorrow.. what is life what is college 

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this is important please spread

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wtf

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A silent protest in Love Park, downtown Philadelphia orchestrated by performance artists protesting the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The onslaught of passerby’s  wanting to take photos with the statue exemplifies the disconnect in American society.  Simply frame out the dead body, and it doesn’t exist.  

Here are some observations by one of the artists involved in the event:

I don’t know who any of these folks are.

They were tourists I presume.

But I heard most of what everything they said. A few lines in particular stood out. There’s one guy not featured in the photos. His friends were trying to get him to join the picture but he couldn’t take his eyes off the body.

"Something about this doesn’t feel right. I’m going to sit this one out, guys." "Com’on man… he’s already dead."

(Laughs.)

There were a billion little quips I heard today. Some broke my heart. Some restored my faith in humanity. There was an older white couple who wanted to take a picture under the statue.

The older gentleman: “Why do they have to always have to shove their politics down our throats.” Older woman: “They’re black kids, honey. They don’t have anything better to do.”

One woman even stepped over the body to get her picture. But as luck would have it the wind blew the caution tape and it got tangle around her foot. She had to stop and take the tape off. She still took her photo.

There was a guy who yelled at us… “We need more dead like them. Yay for the white man!”

"One young guy just cried and then gave me a hug and said ‘thank you. It’s nice to know SOMEBODY sees me.’

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today is my last day in dubuque............

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overly enthusiastic facebook moms 

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Even though it’s -32°C outside I love this weather because there’s no clouds to block the beautiful sunlight that we are getting more and more each day.

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Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)

This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin.

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im having my racist parents take me to college early so i can attend a social justice program lol

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Trill

#staywoke

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Please don’t go, please don’t go I love you so, I love you so please don’t go I love you so, I love you so please break my heart

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a list of things my past self (like 3 years ago) thought it was appropriate to put into boxes and store in the back of my closet:

2 power strips

2 big empty binders

3 padlocks that i have no idea what the combinations are to

some rocks

2 inflatable tubs (i cant even swim???)

a bunch of random road maps

4 empty shoe boxes 

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hmmmm... 1 week from today i will be moving into my apartment.. hmm... im fucking scared shitless...... hm.