I don't like people who clap unnecessarily. I don't like it when they clap when planes land. It's like they're applauding the pilot for doing his job and not killing them. "Oh, I really thought we were done for, but wow! He really pulled through! Maybe I shouldn't have spent all that money on the in-flight alcohol ( Read more... )

Nearly every day I am amazed at how often I find myself in the near vicinity of someone who is talking on a cell phone. I'm on the bus after class and I'm listening to a girl tell her mother in exasperated, impatient tones the intricate details about the exact photo she wants on her wedding invitation. At work I'm ringing up a woman for a pair of ( Read more... )

I have a few things to say, and they are obvservations, if you will, of the things in my life ( Read more... )

I was sitting in an amazingly comfortable chair drinking my Hazelnut milk steamer and reading the New York Times in library one day some time ago when I overheard a conversation behind me of the most hilarious nature. I will try to replicate it here (with some abridgments ( Read more... )

It has been over a year since I've written. Maybe I'll start up again, because I'm sort of turning into an internet junkie again. It's great. I love it ( Read more... )

Currently I am sitting at the desk that I've spent sixteen of the last 36 hours. There is a sea of papers - articles, quotes, notes, information, and papers that I just drew on the make myself feel better - drowning me. I keep proofreading this and wondering how it will relate to my thesis. My head aches of too much computer screen, and for many ( Read more... )

I! WANT! TO! SKI!

Here's a little vignette I wrote in English. I kinda like it, so I thought I'd post 'er ( Read more... )

It's over. It's really over.

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I don't know what to do with myself.

My next door neighbors have a racist dog. He hates black people ( Read more... )