Archive for October 2008
I’ve got the facts and I’m voting.
Posted by: Samantha Gutglass on: October 15, 2008
- In: election| politics| voting
- 2 Comments
It’s the night of the last presidential debate before Election 2008, and I’m scared. It’s not because I’m going on a date tomorrow night. It’s not because I found another mouse in my kitchen. And it’s definitely not because the man down the hall just called me, “little sugar mama.”
Lately, I’ve been feeling like not [...]
I don’t want to grow up (But I’m not a TOYS R US kid either)
Posted by: Samantha Gutglass on: October 8, 2008
- In: change| growing up| maturity| reflection
- 7 Comments
Lately I find myself feeling incredibly nostalgic. I yearn for the days when life was simple, when I ate and slept and played without a care in the world. Sure, there were days when I would have given anything to grow up. When I was eleven, I cried for an entire week because Max Cohen [...]
I laugh because I’m nervous.
Posted by: Samantha Gutglass on: October 7, 2008
- In: humor| laughter| narrative
- 3 Comments
I laugh because I’m nervous. I laugh because I’m uncomfortable. I hardly laugh when it’s appropriate. Today, in class, I laughed during a video on research methods. You’d laugh too if you heard someone say, “Firemen aren’t made. They’re born.” So I did.
On Saturday afternoon, I got in trouble for laughing. I was reading on [...]
