my mom just called up all excited to tell me my friend Justin was in newsweek. which is cool except that i don't remember having any friends named Justin ( Read more... )

there are two new things in my life, which i guess everyone should know about ( Read more... )

so i hadn't slept well in like two weeks, for whatever reason, and the past three nights were especially bad because i have a nasty cold, so i said FUCK it, i'll get me some nyquil. except it wasn't nyquil, it was some bizarre generic called "Nighttime" and i ended up taking three times the advised dosage and basically slipping into a coma for 14 ( Read more... )

since last we spoke ( Read more... )

get some mace!

all i have to do is hand in this amazing FINISHED, POLISHED paper, and then get up and go to class tomorrow, and then go to work tomorrow, and THEN: emma and i are escaping to florida. for, like, not even three full days, but still. that's enough time to complete our list of Things We Are Planning To Do In Florida, which is as follows ( Read more... )

at this point i could be the poster child for any of a number of antibiotics ( Read more... )

taking the phrase "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" to heart, i was silent for most of the day.

while i have proven myself again and again to be really good at things like working 25 hours a week and finishing papers well before the deadline, there don't seem to me to be many other things i am good at. some examples of things i am especially BAD at include ( Read more... )

i'm leaving new york abruptly for a bit. i never knew i had it in me. what i really need is a month's forced rest in the swiss alps, but airfare being what it is i'm going to settle for three days in the wilds of pennsylvania.