I am extremely bad at going to the DMV.

So I am filling out an application to work at the People's Food Co-op (ha) and I spent about an hour agonizing over the "biggest strength/weakness" question, which annoys me, because really, what do they want? What do they expect? Anyway, I decided to be kind of honest and wrote that my biggest weakness is that I'm absent-minded. This made me ( Read more... )

I'm glad to be here. And Sarah made me a great mix cd that made the trip go a little faster. Highlights include a couple of songs by Mirah that I didn't know at all and that are really lovely, called While We Have the Sun and Life You Love, an intensely hot cover of Lola that sounds like a german lady with a deep voice, and, if I were to suggest ( Read more... )

So I purchased a one-way ticket for a midnight train to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Technically, the train leaves at 11:55pm, but that does not have the same romantic appeal, exactly, and I have no qualms about embellishing for the sake of romance. If somebody had told me that I would be spending a significant amount of my summer in Michigan the last ( Read more... )

why does the library always get so wacky between 10:30 and 11:00pm on weeknights ( Read more... )

it sucks how i always do the exact same thing and pretend that i have different excuses.

i can't think.
i can't work.
i don't know what to do.
i wish this was over.

i used to spend my thursday nights drunk off my ass in the new dorms.
now i spend them alone in my room in my underwear reading balzac.
i suppose things have improved, at least in this respect.

i found a poem written by ann, my shakespeare teacher. it's really lovely. read it. she has a book coming out sometime this year.

much inner conflict over whether to:
a. buzz my hair every week or so to maintain length of 1/2 inch or
b. let it grow out a bit so i can do hilarious things with it

this is george eliot:

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sore muscles and a shaved head. both the result of my attempts to pull myself together, and it seems to be working to a certain extent. cutting off all of my hair is one of the best things i've done for myself in a long time. i feel much more comfortable in my body, and showering is oh so easy. i feel some release from the past, from having to ( Read more... )