cassie. 17. usa.

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( strange teenager, waiting for death at 19, are you with me )

love, cassie.

p.s. recommendations very much welcomed

1. dear _____

please don't set your turtle free. your turtle will be an eco-terrorist, as he is almost certainly a red-eared slider, and res are invasive species, of dubious legality, and probably meant for soup. and if your turtle is not native to the ecosystem he is released to/if he was captive from birth, he will probably not know how to fend for himself and will additionally wreak some minimal havoc on his new habitat.

sincerely, me.

( two to five of an epistolary nature )

6. dear all,

happy independence day! bbq your heart out in this alarmingly but pleasantly cool and beautiful weather. and think kindly of mr. jefferson. have a glorious fourth.

love, cassie.

spread?

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love, cassie.

the ONE and ONLY picture i could find of cassie seifert, who was an anchor on nightly business report in the early 1990s. my mother named me after her. WHY? almost just because. because my grandparents watched the show. because ms. seifert was intelligent. pretty. sophisticated. (the namesake not so much)

my brother played one of my jhs graduation songs and now i'm all sad. again.

love, cassie.

p.s. name stories? your birthname, a nickname, your lj user name.

voy a recitar (una parte de) este poema de lorca en clase :3

( romance de la luna luna luna )

love, cassie.

(surprise! it used to be original fic. edits ahead.)

2008.

a wreckage refashioned

( who knows why you jumped off that bridge )

love, cassie.

(throwback, throwback to bad poetry. i was a pretty insecure kid at 13, too, apparently.)

2005.

truth.

( a few words )

love, cassie.

( homg )

GIANT BUNNY

why haven't i heard of herman before ._.

courtesy of my brother.

who apparently looks up ginormous cuddly woodland creatures in his spare time, but whatever.

love, cassie.

[EDIT:] GO IOWA.

jan11, 2009.

watching for lions

( after classes on an iron bridge )

love, cassie.

see, if i were cool, i'd be hanging out in times square (biggest new year's eve party on the planet) right now waving little sparkly things or i'd be hitting up the (other) party scene. but it is horrifically cold outside, and um, it's horrifically cold outside.

but omg, to everyone in the world :]


☆ HAPPY NEW YEAR! ☆


♥ it's been so epic.

love, cassie.

(last revision for now. mostly edited according todual_avi's attempt at brutality. :]

alas, not quite an original story, but close enough to be on this journal rather than the other. it's my secret santa submission at ochiba.net, for OQM. i have interpreted OQM's characters [they are here and here]. lovely, aren't they? 

i have obviously taken liberties, and it's a loose art-to-words interpretation. i've adopted a soberer tone, for one, than the artwork.

on another note - i've also been a little enamoured with elephants lately, anyway, because of rachael yamagata's elephants. also, hemingway's hills like white elephants has appeared in the comments more than once, though i wasn't thinking of hills at all while i was writing this. and of course, i am no hemingway. :]) 

dec21, 2008.

his bride and her elephant (or, that is that)


( Tonight, there is a white elephant on the plain, you're sure of it. )


love, cassie.

TRANSCRIPTION: happy holiday friends!

and of course, it's just about a week before vacation starts. and before christmas. and as you might have known or guessed... i love love love the holiday season and the spirit and all that jazz. i'm such a sucker for all of that! "it's beginning to look a lot like christmas!" except i'm too lazy to figure out that song out and you get a messy instrumental rendition of "jingle bells" instead. you can hear me spacing out a little in the middle, too. (... and gawd, but i hate my voice. .__.)

but hey, happy holidays, everyone :]

love, cassie

(last year, i sent off a poetry collection, including "the secret wish". one poem was entitled something like "lanterns". last week i revisited the theme of saving-some-light-for-a-darker-world and the lantern symbol for my djing/creative workshop women reborn. and this resulted. somewhat meant to be read aloud, i must admit to sacrificing... something for the sake of better sort-of meter and for the little bit of rhyming. particular use of these words: abstract, luster (lusterless), gravity, stark, alien, mystify, vital, inelastic.)

nov19, 2008.

the necessity of lanterns, reconsidered

( i believe that one day we'll need lanterns )

love, cassie.

good morning! this is not-so-stealthily stolen from questofdreams, but it's so effing cute :DD

i confess i picked my cute monster solely because of the antler things. which are adorable, yes?

What Your Cute Monster Says About You

You are a deep, thoughtful, down to earth person. You don't put much stock in appearances. You are never superficial or flippant. You take time in life to study, learn, and get to know people well. You inner demon is laziness. You can get so caught up in your own world that you neglect everything around you. People think you're cute because you're intelligent. Your wit and wisdom are charming.

mmm. i forgot.

from unifem.

"

Violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families, and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence — yet the reality is that too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned. — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, 8 March 2007

Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development."

thank you, dual_avi. wish i could, but i know the f-list is mostly a little older than me, so go go go.

love, cassie.

(60 seconds, "four-line funny death poetry." challenge of sorts from angela. it only reveals i'm an idiot.)

jun2, 2008.

fly?

( funny, you always wanted )

love, cassie.

oh, i blame phoenixdown7 

:]

i have a tegaki-e, now, too.

please come draw with me? <3

love, cassie.

OKAY.

so my email was messed with.

if you got something rude/crude from my email (fish.for.stars@gmail.com) - sorry. ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE ME - WASN'T ME. but i apologize if you did get something like UR GAY and other bits of random jackassness. sorry, guys.

DON'T BELIEVE IT, IT WASN'T ME.

they also took the liberty of deleting 30 MB's worth of messages, which really pissed me off. all my lj messages are gone, as are all of my personal emails. they deleted all my tags/labels. i don't have anything before march of this year. oh. and i love how they changed my display name to "fat ass." ... D: set an automated UR GAY reply message, which is why i'm afraid people have gotten rude/crude. if you sent anything to me within the last 24 hours, that's the automatic message that you would have recieved. AND THEY MESSED WITH MY BROTHER. another reason why i've been going around my address book and carrying out damage control.

yeah. not a good day. i'm going to retain my email for now, but if it happens again, i'll ditch it.

anyways - sorry to anyone who might've gotten any crap. <3

love, cassie.

PS: (dual_avi - "MY STARFISH WOULD NEVER SAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT" - :snuggleloves: ILY. but it's true, guys. i would never send you guys shit like that. <3)