Back in Phoenix after a week in Cancun. That was pretty excellent. A little touristy (I saw more Americans than Mexicans, and, surprisingly, more Canadians than Americans), but the weather was gorgeous. Highs in the mid-80s, albeit with ridiculously strong winds. It was also nice to take the first family vacation we've had in about a year and a ( Read more... )

I took Chloe to Cherokee Elementary School around the corner this morning to play soccer. She wants to try out for her middle school team, and I want to make sure that she's good enough to make it. We had been playing for a little while when these two boys, one about my sister's age, one possibly a little older, rode by on bikes ( Read more... )

Have you ever seen a movie where one of the characters is so much like you that you feel sick to your stomach because that character's actions are drawn out into scrutiny and you can see everything that you wish you could change about yourself?

Dan and I saw Sideways last night. His dad had told us that the two of us had to see it together because ( Read more... )

Roughly 35 pages of writing (for a single class) later, I'm done. First semester sophomore year...down.

Now, I pack and get ready to go home.

I am so goddamn happy.

So nothing particularly exciting going on here. Just getting my ass kicked by my poli sci class at the moment. 15-page research paper with roughly 20 sources, final exam with 3 ridiculously difficult questions worth a total of 40% of my grade, all of which are due Friday. That means that I'm turning in, yes, 60% of my grade on Friday. Thank god I'm ( Read more... )

...and I don't feel fine. Do you know why?

Here's why the world is so fucked up.

Life's been pretty good. I haven't posted in probably close to two weeks. Meh. Nothing too exciting going on here ( Read more... )

I know I haven't updated in forever, but I've been so frigging busy lately. So, instead of writing about what's actually been going on in my life, I'd rather post my comp story for this week. It's very different from the other stuff I've written, but it felt really good to write, just to get out of my I'm-an-19-year-old-college-student-who-writes- ( Read more... )

I've got to ask: are you really surprised?

You Are a New School Democrat


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What really gets me about this election is...if you've watched the news and kept up with what's been happening in this country, in Iraq, in the rest of the world, hell, on your own front doorstep, how could you possibly support this administration? How could you look at a record of deception (Saddam was a bad guy, sure, but he didn't have any ( Read more... )