Happy Martin Luther King day, everybody. It's kind of cool that we've got a national holiday that celebrates one of those rare times in history where the good guys quite clearly and unequivocally won. Anyway, I'm back at school. Back in my dorm room. My new room-mate is out at orientation. He's a foreign exchange student, from Korea. After he gets ( Read more... )

Jasper n. - a compact, opaque, cryptocrystalline variety of quartz, usually colored red: often used in decorative carvings. Also, in older slang a fellow or guy.

Being inscrutable since 1986,
--mark

Um. Well, pointless 'n time-wasting angst aside, I got my physics lab done. It's past my bedtime. I'm in bed, but not asleep. I'm going there now.

--mark

Today, after Physics class, I was feeling particularly shitty, incompetent, unwholesome, and unreal. So I took a nap. During this nap, I dreamt that I was at home with my family. We were living in a house that seemed to be a combination of the three homes that the family's spent much time in since my birth. There was some sort of crisis going on, ( Read more... )

Yes, that's right, Agnes - two posts in one night! I haven't done that in a while. But the point, the point, the point, the point, the point! is that I want to do good ( Read more... )

I am embarassed by this entry. I am embarassed when I sit down, thinking, and compare it to, say, Suzie's journal, which is graceful about real things, whereas I ponderously blither away about purely subjective internal mental states. Not that purely subjective internal mental states aren't worthwhile, but, well, you know how it is...Anyway, Agnes ( Read more... )

Apparently, my mom thinks I'm "fragile ( Read more... )

Look, I know it's a little early to start thinking about these things, but do ya know what'd make the perfect christmas gift for me? Some fucking self-control, that's what.

Lacking all higher mental faculties since 1986,
--mark

Well, Agnes, I've been thinking for quite a while that I'd really rather avoid having those last several entries up at the your top, as the most visible expression of what I am and what you are. So, here is a post that is considerably less whiny and self-absorbed ( Read more... )

This fucking charade has gotta end, and it has gotta end right the fuck now, before I start getting mad.

Getting mad since 1986,
--mark