( Joie de vivre )

Today, I discovered a few things. First, 26 degrees is cold. Like, really cold. I lost all feeling in my extremities on a number of occasions today, most of them not involving more than five minutes spent outside. Second, snow is flavorless; it's not rich and succulent as children's cartoons would have me believe. But that doesn't make it any less ( Read more... )

The airport is a curious place. People don't go to the airport for the sake of going to the airport. They're always in transit--either going somewhere or coming back from somewhere. In a single day, I could see over a thousand faces in passing, and chances are that I would never see any of those faces ever again. Most of the people are too busy to ( Read more... )

I think it would be safe to say that I've done more extracurricular work in the past two days than in all of high school combined. Happily, I can also claim that our events were spectacularly successful, particularly Fusion and KASY Alumni Banquet. With two and a half months of experience behind me now, I realize that being on the board for a ( Read more... )

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Just a year ago, I was churning out LJ posts almost daily. Yet when I go back and read through those short and often disjointed narratives, I gain no insights into who I was or what I felt at the time. LiveJournal has never exactly been a literary outlet for me, but I've recently found that writing down my thoughts can reduce the sense of being ( Read more... )

This may be the quintessential question of modern times:

Why in the world is organic chemistry called orgo?

( Stuff. )