I just watched what I suspect to be George Carlin's last special, and he had a segment about human rights. He made a point to say that the rights we say are inherent are made up. My initial response was "WHAT REALLY I know you're depressing but you also speak to liberals", and then minutes later he says they can't be real because they get taken ( Read more... )

8 People started at the base of the AT trail on Thursday. Only 2 made it the 40 miles intended by the end of Saturday. Let me tell you why I wasn't one of those people (generally just shit I did wrong ( Read more... )

i've been in a blogging mood for the last few days. and i'm hoping i can validate this by the fact that i'm so burnt out, i need to do something unrelated to science. i've been at work every day since 4/28 and got another week and change yet. we're quickly approaching our comprehensive exams and they'll be over the 25th. i can't express how burnt ( Read more... )

It's amazing how you can be taunted by yourself sometimes ( Read more... )

At the dawn of this new year, many of us find ourselves surprisingly single. The most important of which are my roommate, Mr. Fabulous and myself. I've been sort of viewing us as the triforce at the moment, the lesbian, gay guy and the straight chick. And sort of analyzing how we're all going about handling the break-ups (where applicable) and ( Read more... )

I'm hopelessly attracted to people at work. I think if it isn't already, someone should name that condition. Cause it'll get you in whole new kind of trouble. That's not why I'm here though ( Read more... )

So, we've been in classes for about 6 weeks now, and there have been a few panics as we approach our first test and it's becoming clearer why we're all here. I guess it's kinda along the same vein as naming one Engineer/mathematician/chemist but it's way more personality oriented and specific ( Read more... )

I feel like this polymer school thing is the closest I'm ever going to get to Hogwarts in a muggle world, and that's pretty fuckin awesome.

10 people were sought out from around the nation by this Hagrid like creature

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I'm gonna pretend like it's november and tell you my ideas for books... that I've come up with over the last 2 months or so ( Read more... )

"...back when I was dead ( Read more... )