I miss home. I've been here in Virginia for two months now. I miss the smell of Michigan. Going to the Ledges on the first day of spring. Here it smells hot. The concrete seeps the smell of engine oil. Salty air wafts over the hills. The swamps stink. The masses flock to a fried food restaurant and morbid obesity is rampant. I thought ( Read more... )

I've been working my summers at Camp Tapico every summer since 2007, including a small stint in the summer of 2005. I've worked as the Scoutcraft director, Sports and Safety director, COPE director, and this summer will have me as the Shooting Sports director. Yes... I say this with confidence: my job will be to shoot guns. All. Summer. Long ( Read more... )

So my sister bought my father a recipe book the Christmas before the most recent one. In it is a recipe for cornbread pizza. It is so outstanding that I will share it with you without fear of breaking the copyrights on it ( Read more... )

I was in Tennessee for Thanksgiving, which is to say that I slowly fell in love with the landscape. I didn't fall in love with the people. I like simple, hard working people. There's hard work and peace in them. There is not, however, much understanding. I dislike our president just as much as the next Libertarian, but I only focus on his ( Read more... )

I'm flying to Tennessee in a week. My older brother, his wife, their son, and my dad will be there. There will be turkey and football and turkey football and I'm going to love it. From there, Dad and I will drive to Virginia Beach until early December when I get on a bus, ride down to Florida, and board an aircraft carrier (the USS George HW ( Read more... )

What do you say when your roommate tells you she has AIDS?

Bing saves my recent searches. This means, obviously, that I have to relive my previous moments of ignorance. Because everybody needs to be reminded that they read the word "camera" as "cuh-mare-uh" and needed to search it to figure out what it is.

Michigan State won tonight, beating Youngstown State 28-6, though it wasn't that impressive of a win. The Lions won (preseason) the other day against the Bills, which was quite impressive because the Bills had to work hard to have over 100 yards of offense. If Michigan loses tomorrow (probably won't happen, but here's to hoping) then it will be a ( Read more... )

I'm reading a lot of HW Brand's biography of Theodore Roosevelt called "TR, The Last Romantic." It's quite honestly the best biography I've ever read. Considering I've only read seven, that is not saying very much, but it still has a very in depth look into my favorite president's life. However, it does use colorful language to describe his ( Read more... )

The feeling in the house has become incredibly stressful. Nitpicking and infighting amongst the many people that live here is making life miserable. I don't do the dramatic stressful life. Calm and collected, with people being mature about their problems. That's how I like it. Perhaps an appeal to reason is needed soon ( Read more... )