Today I headed outside to ask the question, How well will I be able to get around by bike during winter? The answer: Not well at all, actually. A few inches of snow and temperatures in the twenties are a lot more formidable when you're pedaling around in them than they are when you're thinking about them in September. I guess I'll be doing more ( Read more... )

Dinnertime ( Read more... )

A lot of you probably made the inference already, but I was blogjacked yesterday. The previous two entries made under this name weren't made by me but by Lindsey Shaunessy and Lucy Baquero (though Lindsey kind of gave it away by assuming I not only like Radiohead but would go so far as to mention them in a poem about myself [neither one is true, ( Read more... )

my mommy used to tuck me in ( Read more... )

Well, look who's a fucking loser... me. That is all i have to say. And by the by, although i make my life seem so boring, it is.

I brush my hair every morning. It is bad for my hair, but that is okay, because even though i have split ends i make my hair seem like it is silky smooth.

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You know what? Today was a good day. One class didn't meet, I got a paper back that I'd been unsure about with a grade on it much higher than I would've expected to get on one of my first college writing assignments, went for a satisfying run, watched an hour of new Arrested Development episodes, and signed up for next trimester's courses. I ( Read more... )

This year, I've been unable to come up with a Halloween costume that doesn't make me hate myself just a little bit. First, I was planning to go as the infant mortality rate of a random country, but I felt like a bit too much of a prick. Then, I was going to be the GDP of Wales, but I didn't find it immediately when I looked on Google (and which ( Read more... )

[A note to my blog readers in or of the Ames area: after writing the first paragraph of this post, I realized some of it might not make any sense to you, and I have thus included a glossary directly following it. The inclusion of this glossary is probably as or more obnoxious as just posting a paragraph you wouldn't totally have understood would ( Read more... )

For those of you who are both a reader of the blog and a student at Carleton College, you might like to know that Alex Sciuto also now has a blog, www.livejournal.com/~sciutoalex ( Read more... )

So, should I be absolutely fucking terrified about a potential bird flu pandemic? Because most signs in the news point to yes. And honestly, if I don’t get laid before I’m killed by avian virus, I will be so, so sincerely PISSED OFF ( Read more... )