I always loved watching this after I’d come home from school.

I always loved watching this after I’d come home from school.

(Source: thechocolatebrigade, via gthegentleman)

Leslie and I liveblogging watching Miss Anna Castro graduate

  • Me:
  • omg i just saw you walk behind the stage #livebloggingwatchingyougraduate
  • *melodramatic pan towards school seal*
  • Leslie:
  • haha. james.
  • wtf, internet. no no no.
  • Me:
  • grand marshall in a tophat #2qt
  • why does he have a spear tho lol
  • Leslie:
  • the kitties are watching with me.
  • Me:
  • and now we're watching together
  • *obligatory national anthem*
  • Leslie:
  • we're hoping you're in fab heels.
  • Me:
  • so many hot pink robes among faculty #academiainstyle
  • we sure are
  • Leslie:
  • i wonder what school that's from.
  • this student speech.
  • Me:
  • this. speech.
  • i hope you weren't friends with this guy #judging
  • he didn't just sing total eclipse of the heart
  • Leslie:
  • haha. if you couldn't tell, james and i were totally judging.
  • googling academic regalia bc of the hot pink robes.
  • being mature right now and giggling at all the double entendres.
  • Me:
  • you amherst graduates have gone into all kinds of service
  • Leslie:
  • with such religious rigidity.
  • Me:
  • lovin the lesbian president joke
  • Leslie:
  • you would.
  • "oh. she's doing a speech. i was just wondering why she hasn't stopped talking yet." -james
  • Me:
  • IT IS DAY NINE OF "MAKE UP MAYHEM" -leslie's computer
  • Leslie:
  • LOLOLOL.
  • Me:
  • Portrait of an Artist MAKES me anxious, tbh
  • HERE COME THE NAMES
  • "buberhan"
  • SO CLOSE CALAHAN
  • CAMACHO
  • YOUR HEELS YES
  • WE SQUEEEEEELED
  • Leslie:
  • YOU SHOES WERE AMAAAAAAAAAZZZZZINNNGGGGGGGGGGG. LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU. SO HAPPY PROUD HAPPY HAPPY PIP YAYY!
  • you're beautiful. we couldn't be happier.
  • we also regret not having screencap'ed your shoes.

Watching a live stream of one of my best friends graduation. Thank you, technology. 

My roommate and I are currently in our pajamas to catch it. I’m crying inside.  

Lualhati

My mother’s name means “glory” in Tagalog. Everyone who doesn’t speak the tongue always pronounces it incorrectly. It’s happened every time.

I want very much to get a tattoo of “glory” to celebrate my mother’s life and to display her as permanently and proudly as a part of me.

The balmy summer nights are coming. Time to dust off those light sweaters, expose these sun-starved legs, and uncork a beautiful wine.

Now to get my hands on a pool card. 

Reminiscing about DC cartoons from the 90’s (i.e. Batman, Superman, Justice League) and recalling how a lot of the women, both villains and heroes, were total babes. Especially the Batman villains. 

People get really irritated by mental illness. ‘Just fucking get it together! Suck it up, man!’ I had a breakdown, and a spiritual friend came to visit me in the psych ward. And they said, ‘You need to get out of here. Because this is the story you’re telling yourself. You know, Patch Adams has this great work-group camp where you can learn how to really celebrate life.’ It’s something people are so powerless over, and so often they want to make it your fault. It’s nobody fault. I started thinking of suicide when I was 10 years old—I can’t believe that that’s somebody’s fault. Like, ‘Oh, you’re just an attention getter.’ Mental illness isn’t seen as an illness, it’s seen as a choice…. I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. ‘Well, apparently Jeff has cancer. Uh, I have cancer. We all have cancer. You go to chemotherapy you get it taken care of, am I right? You get back to work.’ Or: ‘I was dating this chick, and three months in, she tells me that she wears glasses, and she’s been wearing contact lenses all this time. She needs help seeing. I was like, listen, I’m not into all that Western medicine shit. If you want to see, then work at it. Figure out how not to be so myopic. You know?’

Yes, I did turn around to “Hey, Asian girl!” while waiting in line at the Post Office this morning. And no, it wasn’t for me. 

It’s rather frustrating, really.

I’m usually always attempting to rectify some form of off-setting habit that throws off my daily routine. And just when I manage to get things in order and a little less chaotic, something disturbing always happens. I know that that is a very extreme thing to claim, but for the past 2 years, it’s proven nothing but true.

So now, for the ____nth time, I commence the cleanup.  

I’ve been away…

… handling life realness. It’s exhausting.

One human-being living her daily life with tea, less cigarettes, and books. A little more here and a little less there.

Find a gentler side and pretty photos of models at lethlie.tumblr.com