In math I was the whiz kid, keeper
of oranges and apples. What you don't understand,
master, my father said; the faster ( Read more... )

Last night, on my way back from our little gym at the Post Heights, I saw a guy pushing a shopping cart down one of the side streets, looking through the trash cans. I called out to him. He seemed to think I was going to give him a hard time or something because he looked nervous. Maybe cops harass him. He was surprised when I asked him if he could ( Read more... )

I really think so. Like the soldiers of the great Chinese empire before me, I have failed to successfully invade Japan. But it wasn't for lack of trying! I spent months in the library putting together a research proposal and searching for funding. All that worked out pretty well, but the joke was one me when I turned down the University of Michigan ( Read more... )

We have to read Franklin's autobiography for the history of the book class I'm in, and, around the middle of it, he outlines 13 virtues, complete with little summaries of what they are and what they mean. One of them is silence, by which he means speaking only that which is immediately useful to those around you or yourself. Otherwise, shut up ( Read more... )

Okay, so this posting is really late in the making. Just think of it as the newly discovered lost gospel of David ( Read more... )

Push me.
And then just touch me.
So I can get my
satisfaction.-Benny Benassi ( Read more... )

Had I written the evening out myself for performance on prime time television, it would have looked really similar ( Read more... )

This post waxes poetic and nostalgic before it goes on and on forever about things that have no relevance to ensemble, so if you read my stuff for witty, urbane zingers, I probably came unequipped this time. Best to move on to Yahoo games and play Bookworm or something ( Read more... )

The evening was a success. Chris Jones, who wanted nothing more than to run around Oak Lawn all night and have everyone worship the day of his birth and exalt him with free shots, got everything he wanted--from what I hear. I didn't actually witness any of this because I made it halfway to the clubs when Aaron started feeling sick. We went back to ( Read more... )

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