Joy. Despair. Words. Pictures.Tumblr (3.0; @ink176)http://mariaink.com/<p><em>Eh, my Real Gems are too scandalous (ohlala) for August. So, you get these:</em></p> <p>“On the walk home a dude yelled to me, ‘You right thick, Girl!’ from his car window.”</p> <p>“Worked at IHOP and then Barnes & Noble. That’s where I discovered quite suddenly where my Jesus Toast story was going — it was going somewhere without Jesus and without Toast.”</p> <p>“I even basically fit into my Zebra Pants.”</p> <p>“Another day of casual bobbing.”</p> <p>“Bobbing in the morning, afternoon, and evening.”</p> <p>“Oh, and I am, perhaps for the first time in my life — TAN!”</p> <p>“I was over my yearly budget… by $1.72.”</p> <p>“I was on my game — FUNNY! Sometimes I can do that when I meet new people.”</p> <p>“Tired, needed to curl up, cramps. A lot of pain. Made it to my class - barely. Went home, curled up.”</p> <p>“[It] went much, much, much better. Or, the same, but I didn’t cry afterwards.”</p>http://mariaink.com/post/1079246505http://mariaink.com/post/1079246505Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:09:02 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6mtl2TlgY1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yay, I think <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/fashion/14CRYSTAL.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1">Crystal Renn</a> (on right) is awesome.</p>http://mariaink.com/post/903077976http://mariaink.com/post/903077976Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:29:26 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5hbqpWk0o1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Frivolous spending on questionable fashions: (1) Safari Hat ($12), (2) Bow ($5)</p>http://mariaink.com/post/805036718http://mariaink.com/post/805036718Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:42:25 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5g986vi8W1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A view from my run in NJ. In maybe rural… but, damn, it’s beautiful (& it’s home).</p>http://mariaink.com/post/802234182http://mariaink.com/post/802234182Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:50:30 -0400<p>“Why does everyone think I’m nice? I wish I were nicer than I actually am.”</p> <p>“C___ & I chatted about personality types on the down hills & huffed & puffed on the ups.”</p> <p>“Woke at who-knows-what-time in our ghetto campsite entrenched in Mountain Laurel.”</p> <p>“Slow, cranky start to morning. I was already tired of my goddamn nuts.”</p> <p>“Felt sad about nothing and wanted to do nothing.”</p> <p>“Determined to write, I did anything but.”</p> <p>“Spent too much time on ASL and thinking of ideas for a movie about sock puppets who are MFA students (us).”</p> <p>“Around 4 went to Barnes & Noble and had a latte & brownie (which I wish I could re-live eating again & again).”</p>http://mariaink.com/post/760316639http://mariaink.com/post/760316639Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:54:40 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4wkj4sjaP1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Half-marathon: complete. May I never run 13.1 miles again. (Unless I run 26.2.)</p>http://mariaink.com/post/759356166http://mariaink.com/post/759356166Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:42:40 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4s6nt6HmC1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is sort of the kind of summer it is.</p>http://mariaink.com/post/749851419http://mariaink.com/post/749851419Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:52:40 -0400<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xH8u19CgmhU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Attempted to sign Iron & Wine’s <em>Trapeze Swinge</em>r, since I was hoping so badly someone on YouTube would do it! Errr, I wish I had Deaf friends so I could practice & be better! It’s sort of a part ASL / PSE version. Hard to do total ASL if you are going along with the song.</p>http://mariaink.com/post/710385786http://mariaink.com/post/710385786Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:57:17 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3vv7vA2qr1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>a few views from the AT</p>http://mariaink.com/post/689219036http://mariaink.com/post/689219036Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:02:00 -0400<p>“I feel guilty for not being able to condense myself down into fewer notebooks.”<br/><br/>“What we like about each other is that we hang out with each other.”<br/><br/>“I relax people because I am so anxious that I make people calm me down and that makes them feel in control and confident.”<br/><br/>“Things I FAILED at today: writing, reading, being productive, limiting myself on the internet, not crying, not watching too much tv, not putting myself down.”<br/><br/> ”____ told a story about abortion flags that had us in tears, laughing.”<br/><br/>“Tried to write. Finally I gave up and watched<em> American Idol</em>.”<br/><br/>“I avoided writing all day.”<br/><br/>“I got a weird painting of a dog and sunglasses with a pink background and Star Wars sheets which I promptly sewed into a dress.”</p> <p><br/>“Then I went to Target for rechargeable batters and came back with two flowered dresses and one flowered jumpsuit.” <br/><br/>“I took a masterful shower.” <br/><em><br/>(These are from my April/May notebooks.)</em></p>http://mariaink.com/post/663733605http://mariaink.com/post/663733605Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:25:00 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3h3rq7SIB1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mariaink.com/post/662226228http://mariaink.com/post/662226228Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:43:02 -0400<a href="http://www.contrariwise.org/">Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos</a>: <p>If I ever got a tattoo…</p>http://mariaink.com/post/660681920http://mariaink.com/post/660681920Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:41:24 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3g72u9Zto1qc9p6ro1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I currently have Marilyn Monroe desktop wallpaper and I just got back from a 4 mile run. Nuff said.</p>http://mariaink.com/post/660458586http://mariaink.com/post/660458586Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:56:53 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3g192vm8Z1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Just testing my phone to tumblr capabilities. <br/><br/>Those are my famous (ADULT) gummy vitamins. I am SO adult that I left my adult gummy vitamins in the car, and they melted together in one lump and now I have to bite them off in chunks.</p>http://mariaink.com/post/660171724http://mariaink.com/post/660171724Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:51:00 -0400<iframe width="400" height="240" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lLJf9qJHR3E?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>I play songs on repeat until people near me want to tear out their eyeballs. So, if you want to pretend that you are near me, just play this song on repeat until you tear out your eyeballs.</p>http://mariaink.com/post/659054264http://mariaink.com/post/659054264Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:54:27 -0400<p>*Spit* *Wipe*<br/><br/>As you can see my blog is still mariaink.com but it’s purged of its earlier ramblings and is now hosted by tumblr. Oooh, ahhh. (It’s so new, you might even be able to see your own reflection in it.) (Trying to add a comment feature. I’ll see what I can do!)</p>http://mariaink.com/post/658992798http://mariaink.com/post/658992798Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:29:00 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3f9hav3na1qc9p6ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Current inspiration.<br/><br/>”<span>Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.” -Robert Louis Stevenson<br/></span><span><em><br/><a href="http://www.frankohara.org/writing.html">Animals</a></em> by Frank O’Hara<br/><br/>“A wise man… proportions his belief to the evidence.” -David Hume<br/><br/>“The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.” -Plato<br/></span><span><br/>etc. </span></p> <p><span><br/></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->http://mariaink.com/post/658895638http://mariaink.com/post/658895638Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:51:00 -0400““If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith in the order of things, even if I were to become convinced, on the contrary, that everything is a disorderly, damned, and perhaps devilish chaos, if I were struck even by all the horrors of human disillusionment — still I would want to live.””<br/><br/> - <em>The Brothers Karamazov (Ivan)</em>http://mariaink.com/post/658890674http://mariaink.com/post/658890674Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:49:23 -0400