3 january

it is said that the contents of one's purse is directly related to the contents of oneself. i contain:

orange-flavored hand sanitizer; tide-to-go pen; english-italian dictionary; blue, green, purple sharpies; pocket Kleenex packet; vera bradley wallet ($20, two safety pins); large pink button; school ID; drivers license; car/house key; iPod; 13 hello kitty bandaids; 5 antiseptic towelettes; 4 small bobby pins; a hair ribbon; strawberry trident gum; hotel-stolen hand lotion (lime!); cell phone; Agatha Christie novel; THE MESSAGE bible; yellow and blue highlighters; purple nalgene with Green Tea; sugar free menthol cough drops; one tube neosporin; three scraps of unfinished poetry; one crumpledy love letter; crocheted North Face toboggan; Anthropologie catalog; Fiber One granola bar; two full tubes of Carmex.

some more Sylvia Plath quotes:

"Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is most becoming?"
-SP

"For all the writing, for all the invention of engines to express & convey & capture life, it is the living of it that is the gimmick."
-SP

"How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?"
-SP

"To you all, whether or not you know, having wandered into the tissue of my life, and out again, you have left a momentary part of you which i will work into something... through me transmuted."
-SP

"But is it not the tragedy of man to be the reactionary, the conservative, and to always choose the certainty of daily bread above the light ariy inconsistencies of foreign pastries?"
-SP

"I am in the position of a blind girl playing with a slide-ruler of values."
-SP

"I am still so naive; i know pretty much what i like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who i am. "A passionate, fragmentary girl", maybe?"
-SP

"...a drinking and living of life to the lees: please don't let me stop thinking and start blindly frightendly accepting!"
-SP

"I am going to make it my job to see that I never get caught revolving in one final repetitive cycle of stagnation."
-SP

"...if this is life, half heard, glimpsed, smelled... let me never go blind, or get shut off from the agony of learning, the horrible pain of trying to understand."
-SP

"...the only boy i know really well is the one i know well enough that i can never marry nor love."
-SP

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing."
-SP

"Is it possible to love the neutral, objective world and be scared of people? Dangerous for long, but possible. I love people I don't know... it is the strangers that are easiest to love at this hard time."
-SP

"I am restless. Eager. Yet unproductive."
-SP

"A new era has begun: it is not yet seven-thirty."
-SP

"I pose [the] vast impersonal white world of Nature against [a] small violent spark of will."
-SP

"I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if i am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing... not being perfect hurts."
-SP