it's getting to that point in my college education where everything stops seeming so fragmented and starts kind of coming together. i mean, aspiration-wise, i haven't figured much out past graduation, but finally everything i managed to retain from the first two years of classes is starting to complement the things i'm learning now. like my ( Read more... )

dude, i just caught chapters 3-5 of r.kelly's "urban opera" titled "trapped in a closet" on vh1. priceless. for those of you not familiar with this masterpiece, r&b artist r.kelly wrote what essentially amounts to a synopsis of an episode of a really, really shitty soap opera and translated it into song. he then broke the song (which is ( Read more... )

productive things i did today ( Read more... )

i survived the first three days of school and the corresponding weekend. now i just have to get through the rest of the semester and i'll be set ( Read more... )

i'm officially back at school, meaning that the obsessive-complusive eljay updating will now commence ( Read more... )

here i am back at my parents', officially rockin' the suburbs for a few days. it's so strange. the 'rents are in this massive fit of renovation, painting all the upstairs bedrooms, including my old one. thus i am currently sleeping on an air mattress in the living room. it wouldn't be bad, save for the fact that there's people in the adjacent ( Read more... )

my last night in this apartment, and i am here by myself. one roommate is at the dorms, another is at home, and another is somewhere between boston and here. it's bad enough being nostalgic, let alone being nostalgic and lonely ( Read more... )

was it the end ( Read more... )

last night we sat around a bonfire with plastic cups full of cheap wine and talked about how weird it feels to be halfway done with college. and how scary real life seems when you're twenty years old with an impractical major and little in the way of ambition. but even if we had direction, what would there be to look forward to? the here and now ( Read more... )

heather (heatherbird) got me:

List 10 things in a day that give you a moment of joy, and tag five of your friends...

1. my daily rock-out sessions in the car.
2. text messaging.
3. the sheer volume of pop culture references in any given conversation with my friends.
4. coffee/caffeine.
5. chapstick.
6. my le sportsac <3 ( Read more... )