I'm headed to London on Saturday, I'll be back mid June.  It's for a Political Science program, we will be visiting and comparing various parliamentary systems and contrasting them to the presidential model... well, its interesting to me.  To anyone who's been to Europe (most of you, I'd expect): leave me suggestions! What to pack, where to go, ( Read more... )

T-minus 9 hours until the new year.  How has 2007 changed my life?  Funny how ephemeral a year can seem; I'm sure many people remember Tacky New Year's like it was yesterday ( Read more... )

August the 3rd.
Farewell, teenhood.

Do you ever become abruptly aware that you are alive?  Breathing, seeing, thinking, things of that nature.  It can be really startling and unnerving, almost stressful.  It's amazing too - the way your heart beats and your immune system functions, with or without your consent.  At once it is empowering and disenfranchising; you are so in control of ( Read more... )

Oh my God, someone please read this.  My Hotmail account saved this e-mail draft from Jun 30th, 1999 (7th grade, I was 12 ( Read more... )

Why is it, when one knows their actions have negative (even disasterous) side effects, albeit sometimes indirect or delayed, they continue in the name of convenience? Or is it habit, or because it is considered "normal"?  This isn't a specific attack or rant, just genuine curiosity.  It probably has something to do with the lack of thought that ( Read more... )

Holy Shit. I've spent 800+ dollars living in Alexandria for 6 weeks.

That is really excessive.

Interesting article (short), argues how veganism is not extreme, how in fact it is the antithesis of extreme.
http://www.vegblog.org/archive/2006/12/04/veganism-is-not-extreme

This is what I spend my time doing at the EPA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_MVaCvgBC4
In my defense, it is really funny. p.s. It's cats. Just cats.

I just finished 350 pages of dense political text...
And now I get to read a 50 page "summary" of the new Immigration Reform Act.

Vive l'ecole d'été!
Forever live summer school.