let me say this:

only in PG county could you call the cops with reports of fired gunshots and car alarms outside your house, be PUT ON HOLD by 911, and not even have the police come to your home.

wow.

my life is so full right now. isn't that the way it goes though? periods of drought, full of gritty angst and lethargy are replaced by the upwards cycle of gratitude and joyful anticipation ( Read more... )

so this summer i'm spending a 3.5 weeks in Thailand and a WHOLE MONTH in Tibet ( Read more... )

i finally bought new sunglasses last week after my favorite ones were sat on during my trip down the Inca trail last year. immediately after my purchase the sky opened up and it rained for a whole week ( Read more... )

as a child, and an adolescent, actually up until two or so years ago, I would bottle my anger in confrontations. push it way down inside the pit of my stomach where it would churn. i'm pretty sure i developed my current anger issues as a backlash of that repression. now if anyone crosses me, or insults me, or assumes that they are in any way ( Read more... )

So I'm sick again. This will make consecutive week number 4 (FOUR!) in which my sinuses throb all day and I spend all night coughing up the most foul stuff. The antibiotics that cost me $60 + worked for about a day and then I was sick again. I am suffering from excercise withdrawal since my infection-exhausted lungs begin to rasp after about a mile ( Read more... )

I'm eating yogurt in the College. HCC has computers in the lunch room which is wonderful. The people across from me are talking really loudly about some girl they're "friends" with and laughing. Everything in their voices say how important they are, how every moment in their lives is decisive and subject to a single judgment that totally defines ( Read more... )

I slept instead of going to my web-design class this morning. i've regretted it all day long even though it was justified by this disgusting flu/cold that i've had all week. Poor Matt has nobly endured the nightmares brought on by delirium and all the disgusting phlegmy symptoms, as well as my constant irritation at my lagging body that only wants ( Read more... )

if it weren't for the lack of academic muscle behind community colleges i'd enjoy them so much more than actual universities. too bad they're pretty much only seen as a means to an end, mainly transfer. i love the intimate classes, and the unpresumptous professors with whom I feel safe enough to develop an actual relationship. not to mention the ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had my first web-design class and my first intro to HTML. I was worried I'd be hopelessly left behind. But if you can spell HTML you can do it - it's so easy ( Read more... )