end days

Aubrey Beardsley, Salomé

So summer's winding down and I hate this time of year. My birthday is the first day of August and what follows is usually a grueling month of self-evaluation and anxiety about the future. It's clearly something about starting the new school year, too. I'm graduating from Penn State in December and I couldn't be more excited. Still, the blank slate laid out before me is reminiscent of the days I spent in high school trying to decide which college to attend, not knowing where my head would be hitting a pillow a year from now. We only fear the unknown...

here we go

It's like, I refuse to blog properly until I get my layout correct. Ever since the days of Livejournal and MySpace I've been obsessed with getting my blog to be pretty. One of the worst things about Facebook is that you can't be creative with your layout. For now, here's a picture of a collage I made. Enjoy~