date a girl who reads

By Rosemarie Urquico

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.


She’s the girl reading while waiting in that hot cocoa shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted.

Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of cocoa.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or if she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality, but heck, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Girls who read understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.


Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone.

If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

 Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

i love little kids

We read this article in English class last week where adults asked kids from 4-8 years old, what love is.

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." -Billy, age 4

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." -Karl, age 5

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." -Chrissy, age 6

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." -Terri, age 4

"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is okay." -Danny, age 7

"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss." -Emily, age 7

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." -Bobby, age 7

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate." -Nikka, age 6

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it every day." -Noelle, age 7

"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." -Tommy, age 6

"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore." -Cindy, age 8

"My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night." -Clare, age 6

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken." -Elaine, age 5

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Brad Pitt." -Chris, age 7

"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." -Mary Ann, age 4

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." -Lauren, age 4

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." -Rebecca, age 8

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." -Karen, age 7

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." -Jessica, age 8

everything I need to know I learned from winnie the pooh

 

 

 

 

 

 

things I want to do in my life list

In the fair commons, where we lay our scene--
Wow, that was exactly ten syllables.
Dang, Nicole, you are a poetic boss.

*checking to see if all three of those lines have ten syllables.*
*they do*
*double fist in the air*

Enter: Me, Brooke, Diana, Luis, Megan
*Talking about bucket lists*
Luis: I want to go skydiving.
Diana: Me too!!
Luis: Brooke, do you have a bucket list?
Brooke: I have a list of things I want to do in my life... is that a bucket list?
Me:

LIST OF THINGS I WANT TO DO IN MY LIFE:

1. Make a bucket list.
2. Request a song on a jukebox in a flashback malt shoppe
3. Go see Wicked on Broadway with Brooke
4. Para sail over the ocean
5. Scuba dive in Hawaii
6. Learn to play the ukulele (It's the cool thing at school now, knowing how to play the ukulele. Didn't see that one coming)
7. Travel to Italy and ride in a gondola
8. Meet a general authority
9. Fly in a hot air balloon
10. Ride a train
11. Play Belle in a Beauty and the Beast musical production
*closes eyes and imagines*
*realizes it will probably never come true*
*oh well*
12. Go see Beauty and the Beast the musical
13. Pose like a mannequin with my friends in an outlet mall
14. Think of more awesome things to do

new loves: video dump and guilty pleasures

Okay everybody, I've figured out some of my guilty pleasures.

1. Doctor Who GIFs

2. That's a guilty pleasure because I've never seen Doctor Who.

3. 80's love ballads. Which I don't think is to anything be guilty of, but apparently to kids my age it is.

4. Processed cheese #nojudging #hatersgonnahate

 

5. Using hash tags on places besides Twitter. #that'sright


Other things I love right now:









Have a wonderful day, everyone. :) This girl will be going to a mother/daughter enrichment night pretty soon to eat sundaes with her mom. #likeaboss