I don't remember exactly what happened in the last 18 hours or so. All I know is I woke up on the floor just before my communications class today with my camp chair folded up beside me, coated with my own blood. It might have something to do with the linear shaped bruises and lacerations across my face. According to my neighbors, I was heard ( Read more... )

I'll let you sort that out on your own. For now, I wanted to post something I found floating on the UMaine Student Forum. A Wall Street Journal reporter named Farnaz Fassihi wrote a private e-mail from Baghdad to her family and friends. Somehow, it went public and said reporter was given a "vacation" from covering Iraq until November 2nd (how ( Read more... )

After talking to one of my friends today, I've noticed a distinct pattern in my age group. Why is it that whenever people have a problem with someone who's being a total ass- sometimes bordering on stalking, harassing or disorderly conduct- they never go to the police for assistance? As president of Blade Society, I know that if I ever had ( Read more... )

The door of my dorm room is completely blank right now, and I kind of want to put something on it. When I remembered that this is liberal month, I came up with a good idea ( Read more... )

Or at least it seems to be after making fun of Dick Cheney last night and going to see Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight. Yesterday, I learned that the vice president can offer no defense for his administration's proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage. Tonight, I'm sure I'll hear what I already know reiterated after hearing Richard ( Read more... )

Ever since this, my final year, started I've felt like I've been in an all work and no play kind of situation. As I told one of my Blade Society newbies today, even my fencing hobby doesn't feel like leisure because I'm responsible for organizing so much. Combine that feeling with a bunch of frustrating dreams and a healthy dose of back pain, and ( Read more... )

I've got chaos galore these days. My Portuguese class *finally* started up and I quickly learned how different it is from Spanish, French and English. Most r's make an h sound! There are a's with tildes over them! I'm going to have such an interesting time figuring out what letter makes what sound. And by interesting, I probably mean ( Read more... )

From pissed off to pumped up in just a week ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in a while, mostly because the campus ethernet is being even more stubborn than usual. On a good day, I still have instant messenger access and I can check my mail okay but that's about it. Anything outside of the umaine.edu realm will load at about one kilobyte per second, about 1/3000th of what the speed is supposed to be. I ( Read more... )

After several sore muscles and frazzled nerves, I'm finally back into the dorms... well, 99% anyway. I still have to return my set of apartment keys, get a coffee table into my room and maybe provide storage for some leftover refrigerator goodies. I'll have a better idea of what I need to do tomorrow when I check in with my ex-roommate and ( Read more... )