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Anyone want to go to a boxing match on Saturday?

My grandma called me (way) early Saturday morning and invited me to dinner. Evan and I made the hour and a half drive to St. Charles that night and had an impromptu family reunion that featured Grandma Charlotte, Aunt Sue, Uncle Tom, and Great Uncle Tom. We all enjoyed copious amounts of mashed potatoes and blueberry dessert things, and Great ( Read more... )

If I'd taken Arabic instead of French and Spanish, I'd have a sweet job waiting for me after graduation. Of course, it would entail going to Iraq as a private contractor.

This is the last thing I expected to be posted on craigslist.

I've been invited to a Fireside Chat with Mary Sue Coleman ( Read more... )

I can see from my desk in my room that a man in an unmarked red cargo van is throwing plastic bags stuffed with something from the passenger window and onto my lawn. I lost count after 15. Now some sketchy guy in a hoody is picking through them. I think they're phone books, but they might be bombs.

EDIT: They were phone books.

Is there racism in Slovakia ( Read more... )

Some guy I just met is apparently sleeping on my couch tonight. All of our vacant rooms have been opened up for guests. I just took an amoxicilin pill and I think it pushed me over the edge. It's been a good New Year's Eve. 2006 arrived as I was smoking and dancing to Animal Collective in my room with Paul A. and Elena and Bates and Justin and ( Read more... )

After two weeks of persistent phlegm, I decided to see a doctor. Turns out I have bronchitis. I will not let it ruin my New Year's Eve. I've mixed booze and antibiotics before with manageable consequences ( Read more... )

Whenever I go home I try to find excuses to leave.