ArcaneAutumn

I'M NOT DEAD! (Promise!) A lot has happened in the last few months, and yet at the same time, it doesn't seem like much has happened at all. Aren't I so deep and vague? But seriously... I've gone through all the holidays and schoolwork drama and assignments and tests and familial issues and such. Nothing particularly exciting to mention, but it's been a rollercoaster. A chloroform-tinged one at that, seeing as how I really can't recall much of this year. I feel like senior year has been basically a waiting period to get into college. Like a hormone-charged purgatory of sorts. Anyway, I've been accepted at the University of Houston and I'll

I like hearing the sound of rain when I wake up in the middle of the night. I like corny science-themed pick-up lines. I like the frogs that leave little burrows in our garden. I like the afterthoughts I jot down on the palm of my hand so as not to forget them. I like the singsong hiss of the pipes in my ceiling when someone is taking a shower. I like the jingle of spare change in my pocket. I like dancing around my room with my iPod on full blast when everyone else is asleep. I like the thought of someone I can tell everything to, even though I haven't found that person yet. I like strangers who smile when they walk by. I like bundl

I'm sitting at my desk in this dim house. All the lamps are off and the air conditioner hums her good wishes, though the air is still too heavy and warm for her to make much of a difference.   Thunder rumbles like a small child making itself known and though the blinds are shut, I can tell the sky is a billowing gray canvas. I love the rain, pelting the window with a single shutter. The drops remind me that the world is alive and I am safe inside. They shatter and dribble into the parched brick walls without a sound. It's strange to me how something so comforting is also so fragile.   On a shelf above my head rests my array of origami chi