My lungs hurt when I cough, and the particles taste vaguely of blood. When I started coming down with a cold, I stopped smoking. I've smoked a only single cigarette in three days. As I've experienced firsthand countless times this year, smoking a pack a day prolongs illness indefinitely. Of course I've refused to learn from this, but with Renn ( Read more... )

“You shall be hacked and mangled all the more because you do not know how to offer your throat.”

--Seneca, "On Tranquility"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7309947.stm

weird, weird night

tonight ( Read more... )

I've seen friends go through this crisis, but fuck I want to drop out of college now

One of my philosophy professors is so old that I'm afraid he'll die during class one day. He must be at least 90. We're all afraid to turn a page in our notebooks, because the crinkle of the paper drowns out his slow, quieter-than-a-whisper voice. He speaks and thinks so fucking slowly, albeit with the specificity and clarity you'd expect from an ( Read more... )

I feel used. This is a new sensation for me. It makes me angry.

oh, romantic irony

avascular necrosis? please no

updates as all this develops

Also, Antonin Artaud = God