the [supposed] homeless guy that hangs around the library a lot is passed out in the extended study room and it's only minutes after they opened. it was really cold out last night-i hope he can get some z's before things get too active.

ok, so the "cmu students for life" people who are anti-abortion and most likely severely christian and therefore in favor of keeping women in their status of baby-makers put crap all over the sidewalks about how we should be lucky that we weren't aborted because *arrows to a pink chalk broken heart* "she was." so not only that, but there are these ( Read more... )

JRN315, editing: the prof for this class (ron marmarelli) is hilarious, only slightly intimidating, and this class as a whole should be manageable. nothing really exciting has happened yet. but it is making me want to become a copy editor at a magazine ( Read more... )

So Jackie Flood is in my feature writing class and we talked for like 20 minutes after class this morning and it made it feel really school-ish. Like, I am finally here and I know people and people are happy to see me back here for class. It's nice. This afternoon I have poetry with Mark Yakich and then senior seminar and time with my ga. It feels ( Read more... )

I actually got out and did something last night. Not that I mind staying in, but it was good to get out and go somewhere other than the Bird ( Read more... )

today's activities: working, then going to the bird with amy, angelo, and company to celebrate jared having taken his GRE exam this afternoon. hurray for grad school admissions. and hurray for rum and coke.

You will never guess what. Carrol Arnett's daughter just called to inform me that my poetry portfolio won this year's $1,000 scholarship. It was open to undergrad AND graduate students.

I'm pretty excited.

A legislative analyst on Michigan's economy this morning at the "What Michigan's Economy Needs" panel hosted by CMU's republican peoples:

"When the nation's economy gets a cold, Michigan's economy gets pnemonia."

Ain't that the truth.

Going to new coffee shop to read this afternoon-mammoth paper due Friday...

'Confusion' will be my epitaph.
-King Crimson

Shmeh-quick update, if you can call it that ( Read more... )