Fuck.  I have made a piss pot of a good soup.

And it's still soup.

Why do I think it's piss?

The sky is falling.  Or it fell.

Random chunk of ceiling decided to come down.

Scary thing: The large piece on the couch landed exactly where I sit almost all the time.  It was only a stroke of luck that I wasn't sitting there when it fell.  I was in my room when it all happened.


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My advisor gave me some talking points for this post, so as to avoid anything embarassing or overly candid:

1) My computer is back after 6 weeks and 1 day in the shop.
2) Probably closing on the new place in Ann Arbor in a week.
3) Nothing much has changed, which is sometimes good and sometimes bad.
4) ... Ladies.

Dear Contestants,

All the entries in the contests have been carefully read and judged and
the winners of awards are being notified.  Though your entry has not won
an award, the Hopwood Committee appreciates your participation in the
contests and hopes that your commendable interest in writing will
continue.

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 I woke up to the horn from "Il triello" playing in my head.
When my eyes opened, there was neither a duel nor a threeway in my bed.
I suppose it only means I will watch a western film today.

I am listening to music from Final Fantasy 7...

Ahh...

Good times...

Klaus Nomi
"Total Eclipse"
From the documentary Urgh! A Music War (and also featured in The Nomi Song, I believe)

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David Bowie feat. Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias
"The Man Who Sold the World"
From a 1979 SNL performance.

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 Your mom is a social network.

Lawn Chair Before the Hills of Megiddo.

A special request. So, here goes. Written by someone else in my "Creative Writing" class my senior year of high school. Enjoy the stylings of the Basketball Essayist in her first piece about basketball ( Read more... )