How is this family so amazing?!?

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"Don't you ever hate being yourself? I mean like the times when you wake up suddenly and say I am I and you feel smothered. It's like everything you do and think about is at loose ends and nothing fits together. There ought to be a time when you see everything like you're looking through a periscope. A kind of a - colossal periscope where nothing is left out and everything in the world fits in with every other thing. And no matter what happens after that it won't - won't stick out like a sore thumb and make you lose your balance. That's one reason I like chess because it's sort of that way. And music - I mean good music. Most jazz and theme songs in the movies are like something a kid like Mick would draw on a piece of tablet paper - maybe a sort of shaky line all erased and messy. But the other music is sometimes like a great fine design and for a minute it makes you that way too. But about that sort of periscope - there's really no such thing. And maybe that's what everybody wants and they just don't know it. They try one thing after another but that want is never really gone. Never."

- Carson McCullers, "Untitled Piece"

 

I've been reading her short stories and most of them are brilliant. I just love the style of writing she employs - so simple and clean yet so affecting. That passage especially stuck out to me. I think it's so beautiful and poetic and emotional and human.

I've been posting far too much lately, especially considering most of what I post about is pretty pointless. But whatever. It keeps me busy when I'm bored. Right now, though, I'm going to go play Sims. Holy shit. I've only gotten the triplets through a semester of college but so much insanity has already happened. It's been fun though. Of course I've still got seven more to get through so I'll probably be singing a different tune by the end of that. Here are some teaser pictures since I haven't decided exactly how many installments I'm going to attempt to cram their entire college experience into yet. I've tried to keep them as vague but interesting as possible.

First of all, bow-chica-wow-wow, Blake is a hottie! As you can see, I decided to tone down his emo look slightly because, you know, he's getting older and wiser. Also, his old haircut reminded me too much of his dad's and since he's most likely going to be heir, I don't want two nearly identical ones in a row.



And here's just a small sampling of the excitement they've encountered so far. I'll leave it up to you to interpret it all.

 






Also, one last thing. Ophelia (Miranda's tenth child? Anyone remember her?) grew up into a teenager and since we're probably never going to see her again, here's what she looked like.

Off for more drama now!