Jonathan: “I wish we had to hunt. I wish all we had to do for college was go hunting and bring back dead animals.”

Tito and Jonah are playing one of Isaiah and Emet’s boardgames, Balloon Lagoon.
Tito: “Hey Jonah, here’s the trick. Every time your opponent gets a balloon, you have to take a drink.”

Going to the drag ball. In a corset.

When I left Machmer yesterday I saw two bird wings next to each other on the ground. They were spaced as though they were part of a bird body, but there was none. You could see the little bones that would have connected them to the torso. A guy walking past said, "Where's the body?" and every now and then, when I remember, I have to fight to not

Baby born, Micah, 7:56 PM yesterday. This is my brother and sister-in-law's. My dad and I went to New Hampshire yesterday, when all the induced action was happening, to help my mom who was already there take care of the pre-existing kids. Emet actually relates to me now (he's almost three, and a year ago if you weren't his parents, you were no one ( Read more... )

1. A Japanese restaurant is opening downtown. SUSHI ( Read more... )

Sitting at my kitchen table at home, squeezing water out of the linguistics textbook I'd just started to read for fun yesterday afternoon, wearing a neck brace. Was there something I forgot to repent for on Thursday? Maybe the sin of ridiculous situations? I actually think it's kind of funny, the over-a-week-long rain that made the stairs in Morril ( Read more... )

I want to buy knee-high doc martens and wear them with pleated skirts, but I'm worried people will think I am anti-establishment, when in reality I am just sexy ( Read more... )

Stress level nearly reached high-school heights as I tried to develop a curriculum for Anna my Russian student last weekend. Today I took out the verb-torture assignment I had to do for my Russian class, thought about how much it sucked, and realized I had spent three 45-minute sessions drilling Anna on imperatives and how to say you like a film, ( Read more... )

YES! Amherst has Tuesday off, so I won't have Russian, so I can go hear Noam Chomsky lecture on linguistics! Yes! Yes! Yes!