After quite a lovely few days,Anne and I have returned from the not-as-sunny-as anticipated land of California.... Oh, yeah--Anne and I went to California.
I realized just how few people I told about this trip, including my best friends and the people I actually live with. Shit hit the fan last week before our departure--or, to be more accurate, ( Read more... )

May whomever consumed all of the donuts I bought Monday be forever cursed by those ill-gotten sweets; may those four donuts (and one muffin) be converted to a thick and blubbery layer that hangs off your felonious face, belly and buttocks, forever reminding you of the purloined pastries you saw fit to mooch; may you sadly shake your pendulous jowls ( Read more... )

Chucko (martin_bishop) gave me reason to contemplate more of the idea I call "Zen Slacking," and, since it is more introspective and less productive than carefully analyzing the week's media coverage of Democrats for Haynes Johnson's journalism class, I have sat and pondered it for these few minutes ( Read more... )

Tonight, for some befuddling reason, was most odd. I worked an evening shift at the pharmacy barely long enough to cover that morning's gas fillup, and someone had apparently left the gate ajar up at the asylum because every damn drooling lunatic in the county decided to show up and ask for a refill seventeen days too soon ( Read more... )

...I am just very, very lazy and post next to nothing in this LJ, even when I feel like writing. But considering just how long it's been since my last post, and how prolific my friends have been, I felt some compulsion to pound out some general status updates and filler, if only to get it into text in front of me ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that this time could just as easily be wasted playing videogames and destroying those listless brain cells, someone very special to me inexplicably thinks I have in me something worth reading if I put it into prose instead of just rambling on at length. I warn the casual reader that you most likely won't find it worth reading at ( Read more... )

I would like to take a moment to announce the passing of "Scabs," my wonderfully beat-up (I called it "personality" when introducing it to new people) 1993 Subaru Legacy Sedan. Scabs was selflessly carting me back from work Wednesday evening when I ran headlong into a sudden backup, unable to stop or swerve far enough in time to avoid a collision ( Read more... )

...and I apologize. I just needed to vent about once again getting the metaphorical "shaft," and not the "bad mutha (shut'yo mouth!)" kind, from ResLife here at College Park. After being denied apartments in Commons or Courtyards earlier this semester--see my previous rant--my friends and I decided that we may have had a good enough priority number ( Read more... )

Do any of you, o lucky readers, recall the scene in "Clerks" where Dante and Randall have a deep conversation regarding the moral ambiguity inherent in the Star Wars movie, "Return of the Jedi?" In the movie, Rebels daringly destroy the moon-size Death Star above the planet Endor, possibly incinerating thousands of unwitting (or were they?) ( Read more... )

OK, so this rant is also on the "8 O'Clock Classes" website, as commentary on one of our comics, but I feel that it warrants being saved and disseminated for posterity here, on Livejournal, with a little addendum afterward that came to mind after my comic-rant was made.

Honestly, I can't stand people who pronounce AIM abbreviations as words, or ( Read more... )