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Ooh hoo hoo. Johns-Hopkins application is due in a month ( Read more... )

Just sent this to the President ( Read more... )

This was on postsecret today:


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Whew. I was sitting at my computer waiting for iTunes to load so I could watch mad men, and my desk is right up against the big bay window in my living room, looking out onto my street. I notice some yelling, and I look down and a big dude is running down my street. A few moments later (but long enough that I didn't know these two things were ( Read more... )

I got some comments back about a paper I wrote last semester for my Courtly Love class. It was wicked feminist, in an old school 80s way, and I was super nervous about it because I felt very unversed in the literature itself as well as the criticism of the past, like, thousand years. Just kidding, more like 600 years ( Read more... )

Oh, kids. I'm drunk. I haven't been in a while. My parents bought me awesome and delicious wine at Tabree tonight. And also Sundried Tomatoes* and Goat Cheese Ravioli. Yum ( Read more... )

I got a box of cheap meringue cookies from Wegmans last night, and have eaten about half the box and now feel a bit ill. They aren't like the good ones that I once made, they are the ones that taste like lucky charm marshmallows. But really, what goes better with a four-book YA trilogy than cheap meringue cookies to the point of nausea? Nothin

I'm gonna start giving my dog prozac.

Oh my god.

A building in German collapsed. It had documents dating as far back as 922. I'm just like--what? Before there were four numbers in our numbering of the year?

And this is the craziest part to me--the minutes of every town council meeting in Cologne since 1376 were there. Not a single meeting was missing ( Read more... )