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♥♥♥
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lve6uvKDcZ1qcjmy6o1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lovesarahkate.tumblr.com/post/13486900343"&gt;lovesarahkate&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;♥&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;♥&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;♥&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/14569825194</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/14569825194</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:54:42 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Soy una mosca en un baso de leche.        
       [I’m a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l08581L5ts1qzxi0fo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Soy una mosca en un baso de leche.        &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;       [I’m a fly in a glass of milk]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;I can’t believe I’ve only been on this trip for two days. It feels a lot longer both emotionally and physically. Wednesday we drove to NYC. I still have a love-hate relationship with that city. I think those words are a tad too strong. Possibly a like-dislike relationship. I like to think that I can pull off the confident facade fairly well, but that city gets under my skin. I don’t know why, or how, but it does it. I feel severely inadequate and as if i stick out. I’m not fashionable enough. Not thin enough. Not good enough. I hate that feeling. I detest it with a passion. And it doesn’t help having these facts thrown back in my face. The day had a variety of ups and downs. Today we drove to Connecticut. Biggest waste. UConn felt dead and depressing. I felt like no one was happy there and the people weren’t very friendly. It was too big, too impersonal, and just not me. Not to mention I felt paranoid about being a tad too brown there. I wanted to turn around and run the moment i got there. Thank god we didn’t even stay for the info session. The drive to Hamilton was looonggg, but lovely. Times like those is when i wish i took pictures. being up here makes me want to take up photography in order to capture some of the images. The countryside on the way here was beautiful and it made me feel a ton better. My mom always tells me to air out my bed and room when I’m sick to get all those bad feelings out. I like to think that the drive here with the window’s open did the same sort of thing. I got to this town and its a drastic difference from the other two cities i’ve been in so far. I like it a million times more. Its cute and small and quaint. It’s manageable. But do you know what did terrify me? The school. It was a cocktail of terror, excitement. and anxiousness that threatened to make me yak without any of the positive effects. The majority of the people here are white, pretty, preppy, rich, and thin. (notice a trend of me being uncomfortable and feeling self conscious). I love the campus, its gorgeous. It’s beautiful and it makes me want to spend days on the grass near the pond while listening to music. But I’m worried of not fitting in. My twelve year old insecurities are out in full force the last couple of days. It kills me. I try really hard to keep these jittery nerves undercover, but apparently there has been a mini mutiny in my system. I don’t know what i’m going to do. I’m feeling overwhelmed and i already had to phone a friend in order to calm myself. I think a self peptalk and some strong coffee will boost my courage? hopefully? and possibly seeing someone who isn’t pretty and/or is bigger then i am. yeah. that might help me too.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/490111702</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/490111702</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:55:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>I stare at paper for hours at a time.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Itchy fingers need to write yet lacks vocabulary to make speech worthy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/401715700</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/401715700</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:03:57 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."</title><description>“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Anais Nin&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/133945440</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/133945440</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:49:31 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>A Stumble, Crash, and Burn Down Memory Lane.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m staying in a room that i haven&amp;#8217;t slept in for years. High school was marked by me moving downstairs to the basement and getting farther away from my parents. I got more space, a bigger bed, and the ability to do whatever the hell i wanted with my own floor of the house. Middle school had me living in the two small rooms upstairs connected by a door. I got the front half of the second floor and i thought it was one of the greatest things ever. Elementary school: twin bed. pink walls with the &amp;#8220;sponge&amp;#8221; technique. an armoire that took up about half of my room. barbies stashed underneath my bed to make room for books on my shelves.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve now come full circle. I&amp;#8217;m in the summer of my junior year in high school and will be applying to colleges come fall, and i am now laying in a twin bed surrounded by memoriablia of someone else&amp;#8217;s childhood. I remember when i used to sneak into my parents room to sleep with them. I remember being scared of the dark and acting like i wasn&amp;#8217;t so i would be allowed to watch tv with my dad. I remember when i used to dream of being 13, then 16, then 18. Growth has been marked by room changes, bed changes, life changes. I&amp;#8217;m going to be in a twin sized bed come next fall after i have spent over seven years avoiding laying back in one. silly circle.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/133907021</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/133907021</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:35:30 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams." Norman Cousins</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m worried about my class. I want to do so well but its so intimidating that i&amp;#8217;m scared that i&amp;#8217;m going to fuck up. I filmed the majority of the doc today. I&amp;#8217;ve been asked several times what its about and this is what i keep just cutting and pasting:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i&amp;#8217;m doing a story on a mother and daughter that both work on the same floor at the school of communications building.&lt;br/&gt;mom = maria. immigrant from el salvador. cleaning lady. daughter = ellen. born here. goes to college. works as a receptionist on the same floor as her mother. a lot of talking about generational differences.maria has been here for about 25 years. but is still learning english. and she never went to school. she left el salvador because of the war and used to work in the fields. she came illegally ( the story is wicked. like.. crossing rio grande, going in through houston, walking for days straight ) and then became a citizen.and then the story of ellen. 3rd daughter of the family. first born in US. educated. working. talking about growing up with immigrant single mother for a parent, and the fear of losing that culture and appreciating it. the interviews were mostly based on developing those two characters. B roll film was more just action shots of what they did during the day. i&amp;#8217;m shooting more monday and maria is getting me some pics of elsalvador. and the film will most likely be in spanish with subtitles and excerpts from ellen&amp;#8217;s individual interview in english.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;thats what i always say. but i feel like its so much more then that. i may or may not post my final product up on here. i still don&amp;#8217;t know if i want to share.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/130985287</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/130985287</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:39:12 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>I love my sister. She’s always there to support me and...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/nJlDFCDGup76mlkqcTCRrXGHo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love my sister. She’s always there to support me and champion my cause. I can always rely on her to be in my corner, bringing me my towel, water, and coaching me on how to knock out the next big bad obstacle in my life. I swear I would have been knocked out by now if it wasn’t for her. I love you sis.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/130920761</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/130920761</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:12:33 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>I’m losing my culture. I’m losing what i have...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/nJlDFCDGup5tm7ul3I1gcBa4o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m losing my culture. I’m losing what i have identified myself as and have prided myself on for so long. I’m forgetting how to speak spanish. I’m taking for granted the fact of being hispanic. and it worries me. i feel like if i lose that part of me i don’t really deserve to call myself hispanic. or latina. i’m just a spanish-american. another one of thousands of immigrants’ kids that forget their roots. My tounge gets stuck and I forget words. It sounds more like spanglish now instead of spanish. i don’t want to forget the language. its my grandmother’s language. its my mother’s language. its my language. or at least it was.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/130353606</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/130353606</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:20:34 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>(via furk)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/snXqJtLsloyci80aIUGz28aDo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://www.frkncngz.com/"&gt;furk&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/129153778</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/129153778</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:33:42 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>wordboner:
I Just Don’t Understand Why Do You Have To Be Such a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/kf9vBxISYkwur3xsszuN6Jiao1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wordboner.com/post/85418953/i-just-dont-understand-why-do-you-have-to-be-such"&gt;wordboner&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;I Just Don’t Understand Why Do You Have To Be Such a Prick [texture by &lt;a href="http://sanami276.deviantart.com/"&gt;sanami276&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/88642000</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/88642000</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:30:25 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Fly Like Paper Get High Like Planes.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Gah. today was such a roller coaster, mais it ended oh a prety high note. UNTIL shit came raining down. i sometimes like to consider myself a writer, so what a better way to try to drain my head from all the sewage? i hate negativity, so when i get a dose of it, it tends to bring me down real fast. i don&amp;#8217;t really have a lot of confidence in myself concerning certain situations, so praying upon this weekness sucks. especially since you know exactly why this is. man idk if this even makes any sense. i&amp;#8217;m just trying to regurgitate all this crap up so maybe my system won&amp;#8217;t been toxic. you successfully ruined something that was light and fun and just a joke. thanks douchebag. just because you didn&amp;#8217;t want me doesn&amp;#8217;t mean no one else would.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/88641137</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/88641137</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:26:40 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>wordboner:
I Hate Your Negative Shit [click]</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/kf9vBxISYlbhmt35qRhDrceko1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wordboner.com/post/88415631/i-hate-your-negative-shit-click"&gt;wordboner&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;I Hate Your Negative Shit [click]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/88422309</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/88422309</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:35:18 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>hey god, i'm not here on my own.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;i don&amp;#8217;t want to go back. i don&amp;#8217;t want to go back. i don&amp;#8217;t want to go back.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i&amp;#8217;m not ready. i can&amp;#8217;t handle it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i&amp;#8217;m drowning again.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/86862939</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/86862939</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:40:38 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>wordboner:
Everything makes sense if you repeat it often...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/kf9vBxISYkdcq1n6koQfGuOFo1_r2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wordboner.com/post/82695366/everything-makes-sense-if-you-repeat-it-often"&gt;wordboner&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Everything makes sense if you repeat it often enough&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;


&lt;p&gt;This idea has been my lifeline for so long. The rope i’ve anchored myself to has been fraying in my hands. Repetition is no longer the key to normalcy. Acting as if its nothing isn’t taking the edge off. It isn’t making it better.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/86795065</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/86795065</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:28:38 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>I love this vinyl. I honestly do and it can always make me feel...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/nJlDFCDGul17fzcwu480qOOCo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love this vinyl. I honestly do and it can always make me feel better. Rough times have lead me to appreciate this music and my vinyls so much more. I want more and i want to make people realize how amazing this medium of music is.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/86306037</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/86306037</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:09:58 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"Girls You Don't Want to Date"</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.asylum.com/2009/03/11/13-girls-you-dont-want-to-date/?icid=aimDBDL2_link1-a"&gt;"Girls You Don't Want to Date"&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;sooooo funny.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/86304489</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/86304489</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:01:59 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Tickle Me Red : Say Anything
now we’re getting down...</title><description>&lt;iframe class="tumblr_audio_player tumblr_audio_player_85995136" src="http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/85995136/audio_player_iframe/jennrivera/nJlDFCDGukzpouuxwgbhXDCZ?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fjennrivera%2F85995136%2FnJlDFCDGukzpouuxwgbhXDCZ" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" width="500" height="85"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tickle Me Red : Say Anything&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;now we’re getting down early in the afternoon &lt;br/&gt;we do a hundred sketchy things i swore i’d never get to do &lt;br/&gt;there’s a fire in your smile, let me watch for a while &lt;br/&gt;can’t keep my eyes off your legs with that dress on you &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;wake me up now &lt;br/&gt;i need this so bad &lt;br/&gt;all the drugs i could fit in my lungs &lt;br/&gt;couldn’t fuck me up half as hard as the understated one &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for… &lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for… &lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for this &lt;br/&gt;waiting all my life for this &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;you make a blunt remark about my size &lt;br/&gt;as we walk down sunset boulevard trading starry eyes &lt;br/&gt;and the things that you say pierce the hide of L.A. &lt;br/&gt;watch you giggle as it spits up bile to block your way and i melt &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;as your top lip wrinkles &lt;br/&gt;with {lips?} so nimble  &lt;br/&gt;weaks my ghost, queen of my former coast &lt;br/&gt;you extend your arm to save me from its hungry mount  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for… &lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for… &lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for this &lt;br/&gt;waiting all my life for this &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;you tend to laugh with childish dignity &lt;br/&gt;and you tend to pretend that you didnt always see &lt;br/&gt;when i psychically said “you should choose me instead” &lt;br/&gt;my eyes stripped you bare right in front of me &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;but if you leave me, I’ll always wait here  &lt;br/&gt;born {?} put holes in our tongues &lt;br/&gt;i wish i could’ve met you as a younger one  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for… &lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for… &lt;br/&gt;I’ve been waiting all my life for this &lt;br/&gt;waiting all my life for this &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;(one whole year) [x3]&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/85995136</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/85995136</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:05:12 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Jnsp.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I have no clue what to do with this. i feel like i should make this into something at least somewhat interesting so i have something to actual work on.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/83991352</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/83991352</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:11:57 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state."</title><description>“To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/83989041</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/83989041</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"I’d rather be ashes than dust."</title><description>“I’d rather be ashes than dust.”</description><link>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/83987544</link><guid>http://jennrivera.tumblr.com/post/83987544</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:52:18 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
