If there's one thing I can appreciate in life, it's irony ( Read more... )

Tracy, I have a question that I believe only you, in all your Britishness, can answer ( Read more... )

I don't understand why West Virginia University needs to make every fucking math class more complicated than it needs to be ( Read more... )

So. Alas, we find ourselves at the end of another year. It's hard to believe the end of 2008 is upon us, really. In some ways, it feels like this year has flown by. And yet, it feels like it's gone on forever. It's hard to believe it's come to end, really. I feel like I've lived five years in the span of one. So much of my life has changed, in many ( Read more... )

Right now, I'm sitting here in a hotel room in Pittsburgh. By this time tomorrow night, I'll be in Minnesota. With Ducky.

Holy shit.

I think I've lost my mind.

Would someone tell me how, within 24 hours of the election, South Park was able to put out an episode about Obama winning? I mean, I suppose it's possible they did two different versions, each with a different candidate winning. Or maybe they wrote it as Obama winning with the hope that he would win and knowing that the odds were pretty good that ( Read more... )

Someday, I'll be proud to tell my children and grandchildren that I lived in a time to see our country elect it's first black President.

After my pathetically emo post before, I'll take a turn for the lighter here ( Read more... )

You often hear these amazing stories of people who go off to college and finally grow into themselves. They go through some amazing experiences and gani some kind of new-found confidence that didn't exist for them in high school. They finally gain confidence in themselves and become that much happier with who they are ( Read more... )

Today, I saw a poster for a fund to relieve poverty in Africa. It showed a bunch of poor African women and children with the words, "Getting wood shouldn't be dangerous."

It couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Getting wood isn't dangerous for me, but I have been known to poke a few eyes out everytime I get wood..."