An excerpt from an essay by Scott Russell Sanders entitled "Breaking the Spell of Money", which is a fantastic piece of writing that quite eloquently describes how I feel about the American Capitalist Society, at present.

"As a nation, we need to quit using the flow of money as the chief measure
        of our well-being. The U.S. Gross  ( Read more... )

Tonight I spent half the evening I should have spent studying instead watching videos online, including this brilliant series on animal attraction and sex by Isabella Rossellini through the Sundance Channel. The last one I found was my favorite, so I'm going to (hopefully) embed the sucker right here for anyone who might find it. I think it's ( Read more... )

Puppy arrives in two hours!

I feel like crap and the apartment is a giant mess that has to be cleaned up before he gets here, but with the help of Radiohead Pandora, all will get done and then the afternoon will be full of corgi adorableness.

Well, and some studying. I'll ignore that for now.

I've narrowed the name search to Casper or Tyrion (I'd ( Read more... )

Life is not very wonderful right now, but oddly I don't seem to care. All I feel is tired.

I'd love to say I'm drained because of finals, but the truth is I've been phoning it in. I'm just tired of school, and beyond tired of being sick. It's actually been weeks at this point. I'm tired of antibiotics and I don't want to pay another copay just to ( Read more... )

So now I've decided to become a veterinarian ( Read more... )

In the past couple weeks I have accomplished relatively little. I've made some big decisions, like switching my major, and withdrawing from my classes for the semester, but I've done little to accomplish them. As today is my registration date for summer and fall courses, I pretty much have to get all my ducks in a row later this morning. Yet, here ( Read more... )

 My first question is this: if you have the ability to do something that not just anyone could do, something that could benefit humankind if you were successful enough at it, are you obligated to use the ability? Are you required to try, just because it might benefit the world?

A script writer with a tendency toward theatrics once wrote, "With ( Read more... )