There is no justice or moderation in this world.

I should have titled my culminating paper "To Be Normal" and prefaced it with this quote:

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
(An Absurd Reasoning, Albert Camus)

It would have been so much better than whatever nonsense I actually titled it.

All hail to the words that rule our lives.

"Easy isn’t for the free. Easy is for the willfully confined. So how easy do you want it ( Read more... )

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart--an unredeemed dreariess of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.
- Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

and the swords, they lay
in wisps of grey
upon the darkened ground

and near them slept
for whom we wept
in the morrow to be found

and the clouds above
obscured the dove
as the king was crowned

"He knew better than most prisoners that a bread cutter who gave full measure wouldn't last long at the job. Every portion was underweight--the only question was by how much. Twice a day you looked at it and tried to set your mind at rest. Maybe they haven't robbed me blind this time? Maybe it's only a couple of grams short?"

One Day in the Life ( Read more... )

Step 1: Put your iPod or whatever on random ( Read more... )

So. Tomorrow. Goin' to Louisiana. To do the whole "helping out" thing. I hope my campaign for Vice-Mayor doesn't fall apart in my absence. Watch, I'm going to be disqualified. I just know it ( Read more... )

How'd I do on my History exam? See "failure, horrible ( Read more... )