E Townsend

E Townsend Feb 2016

I have so much love to give but no one wants it.

#love #give #unwanted

E Townsend Feb 2016

All I want, though, is to be a part of a disaccharide, and never dissolve. Someone I can grow old with, share a bench under the Space Needle, take photographs of me when I'm not looking. I don't want to be old news to them. I want to be the newspaper they pick up every day, read my stories, and know tomorrow will still happen, there will still be more stories to read. I would very much like to be in someone's life the way I wish for someone to be in mine.
I don't want to spend my whole life searching, chasing, waiting for you.

Mixed lyrics from Lorelai by Fleet Foxes and Song 6 by George Ezra

#news #fleet #foxes #lorelei #georgeezra #song6

E Townsend Feb 2016

Townsend's Index

Percentage of selfies on Instagram: 42
Estimated number of days until returning home to Seattle: 479
Portion of dreams that are actually nightmares from working at Mama’s Pizza: 2/3
Total value of Urban Outfitters clothes, accessories, decorations: $786.54
Likelihood of starting anything on Monday: 1/7
Decibels of hearing I've lost at birth: 62
In addition to 2.5 billion beats in a lifetime, when I see a sunset my heart roars: 1,000,000
Total years spent in hell (aka Texass): 16
Probability of rolling my eyes when I read a cliché: 1/1
Swipes of Chapstick per day: 53
Level of urgency to *** after holding it in a car outside of El Paso for two hours: 17/10
Accumulation of hearing aid batteries used in one year: 124
Time I stay awake to if I had coffee the afternoon before: 4 am
Projected cost of 10:23 pm Friday dinners of Peking’s daily special in one month: $40.33
Average number of minutes I spend angrily live tweeting about stupid Disney movies: 67/123
Date of which I made a promise that I'm still keeping, but she broke hers: January 2, 2010

My nonfiction class had an assignment where we had to model the Harper's Index with stats and facts about ourselves, and I really enjoyed this one

#hell #dreams #coffee #sunset #promise #nightmares #index #texas #seattle #chapstick

E Townsend Feb 2016

11 w

To tell the truth, you are quite out of your mind.

#truth #words #mind

E Townsend Jan 2016

On Lying

Lying makes a placeholder for the inevitable truth. The lie will become the truth, as a rectangle can be squeezed back into a square.

#truth #lying #lie

E Townsend Jan 2016

14w

i believe in permanent strings
rather than stitches that come undone in a week.

about relationships

#relationships #string #stitches #flings

E Townsend Jan 2016

I Do Not Live in Canada

I'm the sappiest tree ever grown.
My fear, though, is that one day someone will
cut me down, take all of my treasured
products and leave me with nothing
but the scar from their jagged saw.

#metaphor #fear #tree #scar #saw #sap