JokeThe jester gives ( Read more... )

Come, my darlings. Let us serenade the crickets ( Read more... )

It's been awhile, but in the honor of Halloween I will deign to procrastinate and scribble some meaningless tripe on this blinding computer screen. Life sucks ( Read more... )

We got to mess about with chemicals in biology today. HCl and the like, which is enough to validate MY enrollment in that class. Eh heh ( Read more... )

The immortal bones obey control/Of dying flesh and dying soul.~A.E. HousmanToday was our senior meet. Apparently I'm in the top ten, though, and so if three other people die ahead of me I'll have to run in districts. However, for now it is enough to say that we won and we're undefeated. Not even the mighty Granby (boo) could beat us, even if they ( Read more... )

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"Nothing exists outside us except a state of mind [...]; a desire for solace, for relief, for something outside these miserable pigmies, these feeble, these ugly, these craven men and women."~Virginia Woolf, Mrs DallowayI have a quote quiz on Mrs Dalloway tomorrow and I have yet to read the whole thing all the way through. As a book I'm pretty sure ( Read more... )

I think I just used 'apparently' about fifty million times in that last entry. Okay, maybe 4(?). And according to my English teacher, that would make it much like Mrs. Dalloway, where confusion and uncertainty are a motif of sorts ( Read more... )

Amusing?: Today, on our day off from school for parent-teacher conference, cross-country ran as far as the train tracks in a constant drizzle that was actually quite lovely. Total is about 6 miles, I think, maybe less. On the way back, Karen and I passed by a woman wearing a raincoat ( Read more... )

On a day like today, when there's only a pause like a breath between the time when the rain takes a break in a drizzle and when it returns to the torrent that woke me by pounding against the skylight, it's very easy to just stay in bed. Stay a little drowsy, lie on my back, in the dark, staring at the ceiling and wondering why, if I like rain so ( Read more... )