me upon my pony on my boat
kiss my ass i bought a boat i'm going out to sea
Journal created:
on 22 December 2000 (#35713)
Updated:
on 31 October 2012
Name:
just plain amy
Birthdate:
25 October
Location:
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Even though I talk about school a lot, I am not really a 14 year old kid. I am actually quite old...a school marm, if you will.
But the school marm who teaches art so I get to be the wild eccentric teacher of whom the kids are both fascinated and afraid. No one knows when i will crack, least of all me.
This journal is all secret and private, so, you're going to have to deal with that.
I'm not interested in being famous to you.
"I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do."
Naomi Nye
But the school marm who teaches art so I get to be the wild eccentric teacher of whom the kids are both fascinated and afraid. No one knows when i will crack, least of all me.
This journal is all secret and private, so, you're going to have to deal with that.
I'm not interested in being famous to you.
"I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do."
Naomi Nye
amélie, andy goldsworthy, at-home days, austin city limits, bees, beezus and ramona, being an art teacher, being home, being pretty as is, ben folds, beverly cleary, birds, books and more books, bosom friends, brain picking, brand new crayon smell, bridget riley, carolines and oskars, chenille, christmas tree lights, cinnamon rolls, clean bed linens, clean black lines, click and clack, coke zero in cans, cold beaches, coming home, confidence, conversation with little kids, cookies of all kinds, cutting paper, darts, documentaries, doing it by myself, dreaming of going places, dunkin donuts coffee, egon schiele, europe, family, fresh flowers, friends like family, gene davis, getting smarter, getting snowed in, glue, good eyebrows, good vodka, greece, greek islands, growing up, gustave klimt, habitat for humanity, hardwood floors, headboards, hobby and craft stores, hope, hot baths, how things work, ira glass, italian, italy in winter, jack johnson, john prine, johnny cash, kahlil gibran, knowing the answer, libraries, long fingers, long sleep, lyle lovett, magnetic personalities, making a mess, mark knopfler, mascara and eyeliner, modern catholicism, my parents, naomi nye, new york city, npr, obsession, occupying my mind, old 97's, old english sheepdogs, other people's kids, overactive brains, peanut butter by spoonfulls, peter gabriel, picasso, picture books, pillow top mattresses, postcards, printmaking as illustration, privacy, rain, rainy mornings, ramona quimby, raspberry hatred, reading aloud, real wood pencils, remembering and reminiscing, ryan adams, scissors, second chances, selective solitude, sharpie pens, shirley valentine, sinead o'connor, skin, sleeping in, slovakia, soapy smelling skin, social justice, starting over, staying home, sterling silver, steve earle, stripes, subways, talking all night, the new yorker, things about women, things worth looking at, this american life, tim burton, todd snider, traveling all over, truman, turquoise blue, turtlenecks, unusual beauty, van gogh, velvet, vodka, watching movies in bed, wayne thiebaud, wilco, william blake, window sills, x-acto knives, xtc, young adult literature
