It’s been years since I’ve wandered aimlessly around a used bookstore. The realization came, predictably enough, while I was wandering aimlessly around a used bookstore ( Read more... )

Well, I told you I'd let you know how waking up at 6am to go running went. It didn't. Alarm rang, I set it to an hour later and then still only got out of bed after hitting the snooze button a few times. I hate waking up to an alarm. Now I'm work, sleepy and trying to quit coffee (again).

I guess I've taken a hiatus from blogging. It wasn't planned. I blame the flurry of thesis-writing followed by a reactionary reluctance to write anything at all followed by, I don't know, the typical working schedule. It's been three weeks now that I've worked the dreaded 9-6 schedule (one hour for lunch). I'm in a cubicle, like I was always afraid ( Read more... )

Don't ask why (procrastination) but I just learned that Yale is two years older than the city of St. Petersburg.

Trying to process...

You are a Hippie


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I think spam emails represent our most basic and universal desires as a society. Here's a sampling of my inbox:

- "Discover new heights of pleasure!"
- "Don't let your partner wait"
- "Drop up to 12 Pounds in 2-days" (sic)- "Your huge tool is set to get bigger ( Read more... )

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I've been feeling pretty crappy lately somewhere between stress from school (ack! thesis) and life (ack! job) and general downness from a long winter and, I don't know, whatever bad moods are caused by. Serotonin? Endorphin? Lack of marijuana ( Read more... )

recent away messages:

~ are dates dried figs or figs dried dates?
~ the thesis is draining my life force
~ mother mary won't you whisper something but the past and done
~ koffee and frustration
~ what should i do with my life?

What would happen if, every time I was procrastinating, I wrote a blog entry? Would the internet collapse under the sudden flood of information ( Read more... )