( My horoscope... )

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore --
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over --
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

 "As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero." ~ Rich Burlew, Order of the Stick (nerdy webcomic)

My Zune is magically working again. Don't know why it stopped last night; don't know why it started three hours ago ( Read more... )

 I once had a Zune that worked perfectly well. Nothing ever went wrong with it. It had better sound quality and, I thought, a better interface than the iPod Nano I'd had before it.

Then I lost it.

So, I bit the bullet and replaced it. I found a good deal on Wal-Mart's Web site: new 8GB Zune and car pack, $100. I paid; they shipped; I received.

The ( Read more... )

 Henry James's "The Bostonians" is textual rohypnol.

It's a Catch sorta night.

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I failed to do anything as a BV copy desker the first week.

I've officially signed up to audit Dr. Mazon's Spanish 302.

I've been cast as "the Man" in Samuel Beckett's "Act Without Words [I]." He's the only character in the one-act play, and, you guessed it, he doesn't talk.

charon117 's reaction to that last item: "I can just see Simone sitting there: 'If ( Read more... )

 Okay, so a majority of my LJ friends are college students or professors, so I figure this is a good audience to ask.

I want to keep Spanish fresh in my mind and continue learning the language. I can almost certainly get into Spanish 302, but it's an expensive text book, extra work (19 credits to go with tech services, one-acts [if I get cast], and ( Read more... )

 I recently came across Orson Scott Card's essay decrying gay marriage.

I suppose I could do a point-by-point breakdown of why I disagree with Card. I could also just pick out the factual errors and inaccuracies. But I won't. Instead, I'll just post my own argument - best way to fight speech is more speech, the Founding Fathers always said. I wrote ( Read more... )