Omg! Just sent off an email to get a lab position in a Psycholinguistics laboratory! That would be seven kinds of sweet. Also potentially paid. Hell yes ( Read more... )

The clouds are closer here. If I remember nothing else about Ireland, it will be the immense skyscapes.

I'm reading Lord of the Rings. It makes sense here.

I have nothing to say.

I come back to a saved draft on this and I remember the exact feeling I had when I made it. Even though I'm an ocean away and a whole mindset different. That's why I keep this thing.

Being drunk is not an excuse for bad behavior.

I THINK I MIGHT BUY AN ASUS EEE PC. omg folks, it is so tiny and white and Brilliant. It makes me go off in dream tangents about a different sort of computer world where everywhere has fast computers with no storage and people just carry their data about on sticks and drives ( Read more... )

So the other day I smoked up and listened to Ghost by Neutral Milk Hotel.

It was as close to religious experiences as I get these days.

For serious this is the best song I've heard in too long. It's kind of like grittier Decemberists circa Castaways and Cutouts.

The rest of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is also pretty good.

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YAY WISCON!

Dear Carmen:

http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/anon.beowulf.shtml
Less than a minute and negates your entrie semester! Haha!

-Emma
PS can my mom stay in our attic this weekend?

This song by Jeffrey Lewis is the best song I've heard in a long time. I think I really like anti-folk ( Read more... )

It's mostly that omg the weary traveler plays Tom Waits at close. And it was Step Right Up and Invitation to the Blues and there were people singing along. It's mostly that for why j'taime this neighborhood, And nice conversation that becomes increasingly more important and less hard as the pitcher becomes more empty. And this is Madison. And ( Read more... )

Some days it's the little things that win. Like people telling you that something reminded them of you. Sunning nausea away with the sun on Bascom hill. My clapotis from bamboo yarn knit on wooden needles. A free pie from work. Mammal's hook-eyed grin. Mixed metaphors. Jellybeans ( Read more... )

I think I might walk Hadrians wall this summer ( Read more... )