i am concerned most with documentation. i want to remember how i felt moving out of my parents' house for the first time. i want to know what the street looked like when i peered through my blinds. i want to feel the way i did when i first kissed a boy i thought i might love. i want to remember it all, always.

that's why i do this. that's why i'm so obsessive.

when i was growing up, i used to think it'd be so cool to have photographic eyes and recordable ears-- to be able to see or hear something and capture it so i could play it later.

i am like my grandmother in that way, i think. she still has my mother's 3rd grade homework, my father's broken cameras, every card we ever sent her. i want this website to be like her cabinets.