Because I said so

Some people don't know when to let stuff go. Everyday I hear a comment, get invited somewhere or is asked about something that no longer pertains to me... the news, events and status of stuff that only a person attending or working at SIUC would know, and guess what people I no longer attend SIUC. I may be in the same city but I have officially become an outsider, which is fine with me but other people still want me to feel like an insider, be inside the scoop. Well I hate to burst bubbles but I graduated college not to continue to attend... like some weirdos. Although it's true I still live in a college town, I don't partake in college activities (unless it's Alpha) and the ONLY reason why I am still down here is because I have an apartment and I do not believe in graduating from college only to move back into become a lump on your mother's couch with a degree in junk food and video games.     My contact with SIUC is not done as in terminated, but done as in accomp...

I am a picture fanatic!  I think I should have been a photojournalist the way I keep a camera in tow. It has become a habit to take a picture of everything that I rarely have any pictures of myself and so I decided that on the first official Picture Day, I would throw together a heap of ME! And trust me out of the 1698 pictures in my iPhoto albums only 20 are just me... sad isn't it? So enjoy the few occasions that I am actually in front of the camera.

I always knew that I would be a journalist or a writer of some sort because my interest in words are beyond a mere crush. Shout out to my lyrical cousin Bonquesha bka Candice Nikole, for she is truly a concoction of vernaculars. I would like to share with you all some of my poems that I wrote while I was a teeny bopper. I went to three very different high schools so that means three different perspectives on growing up, life and "love"... and you gotta love teenage love so here we go ~> All that I can't say There are so many words I can't say when I look into your eyes Maybe you'll reject me  and shatter all my pride Each day my love grows stronger but I wont let you know There's way too much behind my smile  that I can never show I'd hold you for a lifetime if only you'd take my hand Leave trails of our relationship  in the pale and gritty sand Yet every time I see you you're on holding on to her The pain cuts like a dagger creating wounds that...