I needed some new excitement of sorts. Unfortunately, a new blog is where I invest my happiness ( Read more... )

dear livejournal,

i'm sorry for neglecting you. maybe now that i don't have classes to write for, i will want to write for you.

love,
urooj

(  definately something to look at you political junkies! )

oh gosh. it seems i have fallen off the face of the internet ( Read more... )

On Thursday night, Ozzy tells me his leave is pushed back from May, to sometime this summer. June, assumably. and I'm distraught out of my mind, very upset. Five months as it is, being hard enough, 3 more hopefully will fly by quicker than ever. It just hit harder than I expected. The fact that he is far away, I though I had prepared myself for ( Read more... )

i am like, ridiculously in love.

i'd like to talk a little about that "war" we had in the persian gulf. remember that? the big war in the persian gulf?

maturally, you can forget all that entertaining fiction about having to defend the model democracy those lucky kuwaitis get ot live under. and fo rthe moment you can also put aside the very real, period need americans have for ( Read more... )

i don't like euphemistic language, words that shade the truth. american english is packed with euphemism, because americans have trouble with dealing with reality, and in order to shield themselves from it they use soft language. and somehow it gets worse every generation.

here is an example: there is a condition in combat that occurs when a ( Read more... )

I hope you all had a lovely start off to the new year.

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