I watched the minute hand slide past the 5, while the hour hand crawled almost imperceptibly towards the 10 ( Read more... )

I don't often surprise myself, or, I imagine, anyone else, because I think I appear very even-keeled. I don't get angry or flustered easily. I rarely yell or blush, and I almost never cry ( Read more... )

Tonight, this morning, a few hours ago ( Read more... )

If you were going to pick a poem, literary passage, song, excerpt from a movie...whatever...that epitomized love, what would you pick?

On the morning of my Nana's funeral, I stood in front of the bathroom mirror listening to my father and brother make small talk in the kitchen ( Read more... )

It's overwhelming sometimes how many stunning people are out there. On the one hand it's exciting we'll have the chance to encounter/speak with/learn from some of them; on the other, knowing they exist and not "having" one can make us feel more alone ( Read more... )

To anyone that participated in 523's Valentine's Day party Friday night: One of our suitemates, Liz Shields, cannot find her blue Ipod; it was in her room during the party and someone may have picked it up. If you have seen a blue Ipod engraved with "LShields," please IM me at herbert404. Thanks!

If you're taking Math 101 this semester, you're likely using the book Functions and Change by Crauder, Evans and Noell. The textbook comes in a set with a workbook and a "technology guide" to help you use your graphing calculator (which you'll buy separately ( Read more... )

It was still dark when I left my house Monday morning, and I wondered if I would see the sun at all that day. Work was scheduled to end at 3:30 p.m., and if it ran much longer, I'd be racing the shadows home ( Read more... )

My mother's house is not my home. It isn't hers, either. For an unspecified period of time she's renting a place on the Cape, and that's where I had Christmas with one of my families today ( Read more... )