king me.

today i'm listening to: in a cave - tokyo police club

ch-ch-check it out

now, that puts extra beats in my funky little heart.

"i can resist everything except temptation"

- oscar wilde

get in here.

get out there.

"she went from a scream to a squeak"

close your eyes...

are you still there?

-jk

"there must be more to life than sitting

around wondering if there is more to life"

(i think this depends on where you're sitting)

the other night

i went to a specific dancey party event.

i can't say it was exactly a friend-studded event.

i found myself eavesdropping on conversations about nothing.

this made me wonder- how fun can your life actually be when you don't read or create or think thoughts of any sort of substance?

is ignorance really bliss?

a thought on beings of no substance:

fill your head

with empty thoughts,

your empty lives.

you can't release

when there's nothing to let go of

(and that's why we keep having all the fun)

-jk

until then,

i'm still jogging, and blogging, and trying to find another hobby that rhymes. (for rhyming's sake)

drown me out.

xoxo. -jess

ante.up.

TODAY i am listening to: Thao - When We Swam

so i'm carpe-dieming myself into a new year... 22 days late. luckily there are 343 more days to get going. so really, i'm ahead of the game! this calls for champagne.

i thought i might patch together a little blog of thoughts and photographs and musings of everyday insignificance... for no other reason than perhaps sharing the way i waste my time seems a bit less lonely than wasting my time all to myself.

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

-abraham lincoln

here is an (abbreviated) list of things i will be resolute-ing in this shiny new year:

#1. spend more time doing things that may not benefit my life in any way or have any practical value, but simply make me feel better.

for instance, today i did lunges while waiting for pizza to heat in the oven. moments of brilliance.

#2. find a new, creative hobby

(but maybe not this one)

(...or this one)

#3. smile more. frown less. and be the reason for someone else's smile every day. they're contagious, you know.

#4. learn a new language. being in Europe feels like a mix of being in a world where everyone is telling secrets and a reminder that you may have been ill-educated.

#5. and finally, KILL IT in my chosen profession and set the world on fire. (can of gasoline is SO ready to go.)

so- happy new year, darlings.

the greatest things are about to happen. the greatest things are around the corner, waiting for you, all of you.

"be a first-rate version

of yourself.

not a second-rate version

of someone else"

-judy garland

xoxo. -jess