I'm pretty sure Windows is designed to fuck up when you're on your last nerve.

Also, I got a tattoo yesterday on my foot.  I'll post pictures soon.

 We're smart enough to do something, but not smart enough to do something about it.

The town at the railway station had grown, and new houses fringed the beginning of the road; but a little farther on was the first well-known red-painted framework farmhouse, and from now onwards every boundary and every hut was a salutation and a question: "We are ( Read more... )

It's cool how everyone sets off fireworks for my birthday every year.

I went downtown and got my new driver's license today. 

A-minuses are t3h suck.

HEY GUSY!!1 !

I'm off to the Smoky Mountains for some backpacking until Tuesday.  Do something you enjoy this weekend!

Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would perform on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner, for instance, is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. I believe that if animals ran the labs, they would test us to determine the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory ( Read more... )

We have cockroaches.  In our upstairs bathroom.

It might have something to do with the hole in the wall?

I even found a dead one in my clean clothes.

 I'm currently working at a library on campus, and at this job, I have the opportunity to read a lot of book dedications.  Not the books so much as the dedications, because it's my job to write the acquisition date (usually) on the same page as the dedication.

I've seen some really great dedications in my time, and I think I will start typing out ( Read more... )

 I feel like all the coffee I'm drinking these days is decaf.  Maybe I should just get more sleep.

when our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others
and the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers
milk that sours is promptly spat
light will fill our eyes like cats

and they shall enter from the back
with spears and scepters and squirming sacks
scribs and tangles between their ears
faceless scrumbled charcoal smears