my grandmother is 87 years old, she's nearly lapped her last lap; she's dying.  got a tumor on the base of her neck the size of a baseball.  when they took a biopsy of it, the skin had to be broken there causing a weak point.  the whole thing ruptured shortly thereafter.  there is no other word for it besides disgusting.  she's been bandaged, weak ( Read more... )

 so there's an upcoming "my guests" feature that lets you spy on the people lurking your page. would have been sweet like 8 years ago.

One evening I was thinking to myself, if human society were described to a non-earthling [1], how would that go exactly?  I guess you would have to start with defining what a society first and saying something along the lines of ‘Well, you see, we humans mate and create more humans, and they create more humans and that is how our number grows, ( Read more... )

i haven't been this mad in i don't even know how long, probably since the last time my dad got me pissed because he's the only one that seems to be able to get me this fucking furious. i'm so mad you should hear how loud i'm typing. also i'm lucky my computer even started. ok. let's backtrack a bit ( Read more... )

i can't stop reading the firm ( Read more... )

i hate my computer. the mouse doesn't work, the screen doesn't shut off when you close it, it has a virus, it over heats and shuts down on it's own, it doesn't connect to the internet just because i feel it doesn't want to, i always lose word documents because it shuts itself down fairly often, oh and the battery sucks on it and lasts for like 2 ( Read more... )

i'm extraordinarily busy;
i overdrew my account by $0.08 and have $47 in finance and overdraft fees;
so that means i'm broke and in debt (until friday when my paycheck from isu takes care of that);
i have a major paper to write (by wednesday at 6pm (so of course i'm going to lj and procrastinate some more));
i have papers due in 3/4 classes after ( Read more... )

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history"-yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.

One might ( Read more... )

so i'm a fan of the show, and i just downloaded the latest episode to rewatch. that's what i've been doing lately, watching [heroes, lost, the office] once and then again for good measure. and i was just skipping around the episode to finally where hiro and ando rejoin parkman, mohinder, and peter flies in. and that little pow wow really made me ( Read more... )

1. that my three favorite tv shows are all new right now (LOST, the Office, Heroes--in that order)
2. my friends from mock trial
3. this amazing weather
4. my kind of patchy but worth it because it reminds me of summer jergen's lotion tan
5. my gmail theme (planets, so sweet)