"Guys, can we wear high ponytails today?"
---Lexi, 2/24/04
"My clothes are disgusting."
---Alyssa, 2/24/04
"I feel like I'm in a sitcom."
---Kristin, 2/24/04
"Oh how time flies / with crystal clear eyes / and cold as coal / when you're ending with diamond eyes // Oh come child / in a crossbones style / Oh come child / come and rescue me / 'cause you have seen some unbelievable things // Hater I have your diamonds and still / 'cause you have seen some unbelievable things / hater I have your diamonds"
---Cat Power
March 5, 2004
Coming home after a night out with SAASsy last night, still breaking into tears and you don't know why…"come child you have seen some unbelievable things" What's the point? She looks so young was that really four years ago? Are we really that old? But not really . . . Watching what I can, remembering what I can, why still this careful attention to this gymnast? Why tonight, why last night? What is it about her story?
The debate rages on, threads about her continue to pour out angry responses and heated debates. "She wasn't meant for that team" but who cares? Does that mean she was a failure? Someone will always argue "she wasn't that great of a gymnast anyway" and someone, so hurt by this attack, will fire back. Just because she touched your heart, just because of who she is. Who she is. Who you are. But some still see failure.
She looks so young . . . but not a failure, still meant to do great things. Just take some time . . .
Um, yeah. Good God (wait, not supposed to say that, oh well). Haven't updated in forever and then I update something like this! But not to worry, I am OK. School has got me DOWN this weekend, and I have a gymnastics meet tonight that is going to be carnage, but what can you do? Too much going on. Oh yeah, and for anyone who knew about it, I did not get the Italy scholarship. I saw it coming but they're fools anyway. Just like the Miami full ride. They don't know what they're missing! Bye.
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time
10:14 am
feeling
complicated
ready for
spring break
next
good ol' h-work
She looks so young, crying as she walks off the mat, wiping her eyes as her face breaks into tears…" 'cause you have seen some unbelievable things…" And still…"oh how time flies"