august 7

Important births:

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, 1533

Elizabeth Báthory, 1560

Emil Nolde, 1867

Mata Hari, 1876

Louis Leakey, 1903

Albert Kotin, 1907

Garrison Keillor, 1942

Charlize Theron, 1975

Natalie, 1983

birthday party morning

What a beautiful day it is to celebrate my birth!

my dad got a puppy

I am always wary of my father's attempts to communicate with me via e-mail because in the past they have led to some very unlovely interactions. However, I am willing to set that aside momentarily to appreciate the cuteness of his new puppy. Look at its little tiny legs. Adorable!

p.s. Its name is Gumball.

my favorite place ever in the world

I am at the doctor. I am so thrilled. I consider it the first phase of my birthday celebration. No. I got bit by a fucking spider. So that's great. And the embarrassing crybaby meltdown I had while trying to find a parking space downtown, the one that had been building up for a number of weeks, most likely, was just icing on the cake of my fabulous almost-my-birthday day.

But. I have a prescription for antibiotics, so I won't die from my "venomous insect bite." I also won't get gross zombie rot like I saw when I googled "spider bite." You should definitely NOT do a Google Image search for "spider bite." (Or "zombie rot," for that matter. Blech.)

In conclusion, I have survived the following today: spiders, downtown, meltdown, the doctor (ARNP, actually, oops), and zombies.

I am so special.

what is behind

spider is our mother

"The spider is a symbol with three distinct meanings; sometimes they merge or overlap, sometimes one or the other predominates. The three meanings are derived from: (i) the creative power of the spider, as exemplified in the weaving of its web; (ii) the spider's agressiveness; and (iii) the spider's web as a spiral net converging towards a central point. The spider sitting in its web is a symbol of the centre of the world, and is hence regarded in India as Maya, the eternal weaver of the web of illusion. The spider's destructive powers are also connected with its significance as a symbol of the world of phenomena. As Schneider points out, spiders, in their ceaseless weaving and killing- building and destroying- symbolize the ceaseless alternation of forces on which the stability of the universe depends. For this reason, the symbolism of the spider goes deep, signifying, as it does, that 'continuous sacrifice' which is the means of man's continual transmutation throughout the course of his life. Even death itself merely winds up the thread of an old life in order to spin a new one. The spider is a lunar animal because the moon (owing to its passive character, in the sense that it merely reflects light, and because of its waxing and waning phases, taking these in the positive and negative sense) is related to the world of phenomena, and, on the psychic level, to the imagination. Thus, the moon, since it holds sway over the whole phenomenal world (for all phenomenal forms are subject to growth and death), weaves the thread of each man's destiny. Accordingly, the moon is depicted as a gigantic spider in many myths."

from A Dictionary of Symbols by Juan Eduardo Cirlot

scientist puppy

lap puppy

scrap metal

11th grade