You know that a vocabulary has been learned from and pertaining to a 7-year-old when it consists of:
- Shh!
- Be quiet!
- That's enough!
- School
- Open the door
- Imp (literally "bitch", but that's not quite the right connotation)
- Fart
- On one hand, it's sort of sad the list doesn't include "good job", etc. but on the other it's simply ( Read more... )

"Six-month-old Salam Oudrawogol of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, has been covered with sores since he was exposed to toxic waste in August ( Read more... )

It's 3 a.m. and I'm in lab, blasting salsa and sappy Enrique Iglesias songs that I would otherwise be embarrassed to listen to, while centrifuging, staining, and counting cryptosporidium oocytes - all under the influence of way too much Pepsi, since I've been at one job or another for the last 16 hours. It's kind of fun...

http://www.xanga.com/eisenia269

The censored/non-angsty edition.

"It's amazing how Northwestern can completely destroy your self-confidence and warp your personality." Agreed... I definitely scared myself a couple weeks ago when I saw Kate for the first time in over a year (and I think weirded her out a bit too). We met up for coffee, and wow, I could barely put a sentence together (in English - contrast with ( Read more... )

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Who's going to be in Wichita over spring break? I want to see you! And you want to see me swollen up like a chipmunk, newly sans wisdom teeth ;)

The main obstacle between me and finishing this paper is all the interesting sources out there, haha. The issue at hand, suburban sprawl, is a personal pet peeve.

Suburban Phoenix: "...Like most developments, this one aimed to conserve water for important uses - namely the golf course - by landscaping the houses with gravel and cactus rather ( Read more... )

So I went home last month with the idea of rediscovering my Culture-- that slippery source of identity the Chicago Urban Project people insist you have, no matter what color you are. "A lot of racial problems in this country are because people feel shame or disconnection from their roots," ( they )

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