There is a basilisk in my bathroom at school.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to take the necessary precautions due to a lack of small, hand-held mirrors.

In one week I will be in heaven.  Also known as Christmas Break.

Apparently the Pope said, "A world without God is a world without hope ( Read more... )

Christmas Fest is this weekend.  It's being taped, so it's more intense than usual, which is pretty intense ( Read more... )

Oh college.

Existential crisis.

"Take 'em or leave 'em."

I'll leave you with those seemingly random thoughts right now.

So, my new room at school is wonderful.  Wonderfully ridiculously hot, but besides St. Olaf's lack of air conditioning my room is everything I hoped for.  Much more spacious (living with one person > living with two people) and we have it set up pretty well already.  Especially once we finish decorating and putting posters and things up, it will be ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Kate Winslet was a $2,000 clue on Jeopardy! and none of the contestants knew it.  What idiots.  And, today Jake Gyllenhaal is the featured article on Wikipedia's home page.  It's like, celebrity heaven week or something.

Yesterday at work I was filmed making my usual calls by a webcam that had been placed on my desk.  Yes, it is very ( Read more... )

I've been thinking, and I think that the meaning in my life is often and perhaps too often defined by the people in it.  This is perhaps why I always have a desperate need to be in love with someone, because if I'm not then I have no one to live for and this is also perhaps why I may eventually have to raise some children because then I'm living ( Read more... )

So, out of curiosity (and maybe a little bit out of self-pity) I counted up all of the words and pages of every paper I wrote this semester ( Read more... )

The headline was "Harry will not serve in Iraq"

My first thought: Harry Potter?

The actual subject of the article: Prince Harry, as in son of Diana

I'm not sure what all of this mean.  Maybe I'm a little too obsessed over this summer's release of the last book.  Yeah, that must be it.

After all, during the 1990's itself the world appeared to be a relatively benign place--unless of course you happened to be Rwandan, Bosnian, or poor.

I just wanted to remember that one.