I suck at feng shui. Or rather, my apartment is just not suited for it. I had the bright idea several days ago to rearrange my room. Part of turning over a new leaf and getting the energy flowing and getting ready for the next year of school. The problem is that my apartment is the most poorly designed piece of architecture since the Tower of Piza ( Read more... )

The Princeton Review recently released its rankings of colleges. This year, UCSB has some (dubious) acheivements in ranking. They are ( Read more... )

Alright.

Whoever put my number on the internet, or scrawled it on a bathroom stall, or started handing it out to drunk people...you suck.

I've gotten five missed calls in the past week from random numbers I don't know. I used to think it was a fun game to pick up the phone and see who it was. But a few months ago I picked up a random number and it ( Read more... )

I have determined that my favorite food group is muffins. You can put just about anything in a muffin shape and I’ll love it. Mostly, I like the ones with oats and apples and carrots and things, the ones that usually have “wholesome” or “low-fat” somewhere in the name, even though they usually have the wholesome nutritional qualities of pound cake ( Read more... )

Damn you, So Good ( Read more... )

I started recently started working at an Irish pub here in town. My first official night of work was Summer Solstice and also a World Cup game day....basically it was berserk. But I love working there. One or more of the Irish owners are usually drinking heavily in the corner, the food is actually amazing (birthday brownie, you rule my world), and ( Read more... )

Dear Live Journal readers ( Read more... )

Pardon me if I've disappeared off the planet and you wonder if I still love you. I've been in the midst of innumerable struggles with end of quarter stuff, jobs, funding, and various existential crises about my purpose on the earth. Regular grad type stuff....but I'll be done with everything by Friday, at which point I hope to be stable enough to ( Read more... )

One short rant and then on to more interesting things ( Read more... )

It occurred to me yesterday that if I put all the books that I've read in my life together in a room, odds are I'd need a warehouse to hold them. I've been reading all my life, voraciously, often without taste or the slightest concern for critical acclaim. A good corner of the warehouse would be taken up by murder mysteries, fluffy feel-good novels ( Read more... )