Repeatedly this summer I've considered my own contradictions. I eat meat but hate the meat industry, I believe in kindness and empathy but have an aggressive nature. I don't get along with many who hold my views. My friends are all very different. I love high fashion but have a distaste for my upper-class neighborhood. The list goes on and on. ( Read more... )

"I like Less Than Jake. A little too much." - 10th grade Anne

"For women the best aphrodisiacs are words.The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time." - Isabelle Allende

She's right, you know.

THIS IS FOR SHIRA:
"Otto Jesperson even suggests that, strictly speaking, it isn't acutally possible to split an infinitve. As he puts it, 'To'...is no more an essential part of an infinitive than the definite article is an essential part of a nominative, and no one would think of calling 'the good man' a split nominative."

So, I'm definitely eating in Kosher-Halal coop next year, and man am I psyched.
Oh the implications this has for my pseudo/quasi Jewishness.
And I changed my minor to gender and women's studies.

I am taking a class called the History and Structure of the English Language. That explains this:

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

The new president of Chile is a socialist and a woman!!!!

Tonight my cooking collective (me, Jake, Jenny, and Noah) made chicken curry and half-cooked brownies with ice cream on top. It was really beautiful ( Read more... )

Oberlin is practically empty. I can't leave until tomorrow because I had my last final today ( Read more... )

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