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so much fucking work, yet my brain will ... just... not ... cooperate. i'm trying to write a short paper for my conflict resolution class, which is the most frustrating class because we're assigned 350 pages of reading a week, which i can only barely make a dent in. it's just not realistic, especially if it's dense academic jargon, which it always ( Read more... )

"Experts say that there are only about 1,500 tigers in the wild in India - down from about 3,600 six years ago and an estimated 100,000 a century ago."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7735631.stm

i'm such a bad environmentalist that i don't know these things!

in doing research for one of my classes, i decided to type random things into the scopus database and see if people had actually done academic papers on them. i was blown away, for example:

Title: Young hero Simba defeats old villain Scar: Oedipus wrecks the Lyin’ King

Abstract

Prior studies of Disney's animated film The Lion King focus on its ( Read more... )

i had this great idea two seconds ago for the most epic introduction to a final project ever. I was thinking it would be so amazing if I was doing a powerpoint presentation on solid waste management, if i put my powerpoint on a flash drive and put the drive into a baggy and swallowed it, and then timed it so that when it was time to give my ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/playmagazine/112pewarm.html?emRead more... )

"Don't forget what I told you about bayonets," the tall soldier says. "When you stab the enemy, you've got to twist and slash, to cut his guts open. Otherwise he'll do it to you. That's the way the world is outside ( Read more... )

i have no idea how i got so drunk tonight. my weekends are so fucking weird. i didn't mention it, but last weekened i ended up at some kid's house that i had no idea still lived at his parents. i wound up drinking beer with his dad while watching college football. THIS WEEKEND, i end up going to another one of my friend's homes who's a bolivian ( Read more... )

moonwaffle6: is this the friendship hotline?
moonwaffle6: i'd like to report a friendship!
mike: sorry our call center is closed!

sorry, but i was remembering back to 8th grade watching this and being like... "whoa, man.. that's totally right on... people trying to buy happiness cuz they're so empty inside." perfect song to play after doing bad on the earth science regents... or while you're waiting for Home Improvement to come on

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