I can't decide which of the moments I witnessed last night were more moving: sitting giddy and tearful with my housemates as we watched Obama deliver his acceptance speech, or watching a drag queen lead a crowd of Seattlelites in singing the national anthem. (Seattle last night looked  a little like this.) Something happened last night that won't ( Read more... )

Foul, foul mood brought on by my own incompetence. I feel like I'm on a treadmill, running to keep in place, but not making any measurable progress ( Read more... )

Ugly, depressing weather today to match my mood. It's always such a shock when the temperature drops, the clouds roll in, and it is undeniably fall. My recent choice of reading doesn't help either, I suppose ( Read more... )

Living in this house is craziness. I need to avoid spending money, stop being inebriated, and find a job before classes start.

I'm reading Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians for the English class I'm taking, and thought that this quote was especially... well, you decide:

''When (the torturers) first brought me back here ... I wondered how much pain a plump comfortable old man would be able to endure in the name of his eccentric notions of how the Empire should conduct ( Read more... )

It's 3am. I am too warm, irritable, and can't sleep. Out of boredom and frustration, I have been running over the list of all the Finnish words I can remember
("one, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight", "daddy", "mommy", "bye bye", "hi", "kitty", "thank you")

no more of this!

So, if you have any interest in belly dancing, you must, must watch this:

And this:

No, I'm not obsessed.

I was looking for something written a while ago, but can't find it in the sheer volume of all these words. Just a few sentences really, but they meant so much ( Read more... )

 The ear infection has now migrated to the right ear. Oh yes ( Read more... )

Went to urgency care this morning around 5am because of stubborn, painful ear infection. Doctor prescribed more antibiotics and Vicodin! I've been napping almost all day.