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It's midnight and I'm sitting in my room listening to the rain. It's one of those intense north-eastern summer storms that started out with nearly two hours of bright lightning and deafning thunder but no rain...until just a few minutes ago it began pouring. My roomate made fun of me for running outside and just standing amid the blinding ( Read more... )

On October 3, 2005 I wrote an entry where I spoke of taking risks and following one's heart rather than pure cold logic. Yet we all know that life has a fetish for irony and in my case this ultimate irony was that the very person who once had motivated me to make illogical, wonderfuly risky choices was the same person who two days ago told me that ( Read more... )

I would like to make a personal commet to Berkeley activists - you're too late! Yes, yesterday's protest was impressive, though mostly because it was actually organized. However, not only did it parrot what the high school students of LA had already done, but it did so twho whole weeks after the LA protests took place and days after the Senate ( Read more... )

It's rare that I am actually impressed by the leaders of orgonized religions around the world, be they Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, but I am a bit in awe of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Being the leader of the Anglican world in the UK, he nonetheless appears to have a very logical approach to the God vs Darwin debate. The man, and apparently the ( Read more... )

It's been months since I've posted, but this shocked me so much that I had to put it out there ( Read more... )

On Friday I finished reading "Rules of Attraction". Closing that book was intensely profound and frightening. It's been years since a book has effected me the way this one has. It is so honest, so brutal, so right on a multitude of levels that it distrubs me and yet that is exactly the reason I loved it so much, the reason I couldn't put it down ( Read more... )

At 21 how old realy are we? I feel like I'm still a child. At our age, our parents and grandparents held real jobs, had their own families, and took care of responsibilities that dwarf any that I feel I am faced with. Yes, I pay bills, do my taxes, and can now legally buy alcohol (though I have not been carded a single time since turning that most ( Read more... )

After three plus years at Berkeley I have come to the conclusion that the Daily Cal is, mildly saying, a peice of gossipy shit. For the past two years I've only picked it up on Tuesdays to read the Sex on Tuesdays column. However, since I am human (hard to believe, huh?) I am occasionally wrong. Today is such a momentous occasion and I am proudly ( Read more... )

I'm still home (the laundary is taking forever to get done!) but to my surprize no longer wanting to hide in my dog's shed because at my dad's bday dinner things actaully took a turn for the better. I attribute the happy change to alcohol, but after a few shots of this vile spicy garlic flavored Ukrainian vodka (the stuff is actually orange in ( Read more... )