Joel is still hospital-bound and all fulla morphine, so I haven't had the heart to demand that he explain to me what the @#$% Heidegger is talking about in Being and Time. Actually, for my being just a humble Lit. student, and for the summer having given me the brain-rot, I'm not doing so bad. But if anyone out there can tell me anything about ( Read more... )

For those of you who know who I'm talking about:

As of about 10:30 in the evening (7:30 in Oregon time), I had word that Joel made it through his 7+ hour back surgery. According to the doctors, he came out of anesthesia thrashing around, so we know he isn't paralyzed.

Here's to his next week or so on intravenous morphine!

I spent part of the plane ride from Oregon to Ohio with my nose smushed against the window, since the sight of the desert in Idaho left me in breathless, drooling awe ( Read more... )

Joel is one among several of my acquaintances who have drivers license pictures featuring them as sixteen year old hippies. Past Joel's hair is long and feminine, and I have it on good authority that a seven year old friend of the family once exclaimed "Joel, there's a girl on your driver's license!" when she saw it. These things come to mind while ( Read more... )

"Way to not be 20 anymore" -James ( Read more... )

sometimes I long to be landlocked
and to work in a bakery

This inquiry is particularly directed at John since I suspect that it lies in his area of knowledge, but I'd be glad for anyone's opinion ( Read more... )

It's hard to feel melancholic when you're getting post. Today a package came from Joel, and now I have a lovely bound copy of his thesis, a cd of mysterious Russian Pirate music, and a letter ( Read more... )

This is not Stephen Colbert, this is a real, live anti-choice blogger who has taken this Onion Article completely seriously ( Read more... )

self-consciousness is only vanity,
and that's the thread by which everything hangs