It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.