OMG, Election Day in 3 minutes. I can't wait. I remember waking up in the morning of Election Day 2004. It was a beautiful day, partly because of the weather, but mostly because of the feeling I walked around with all day; the feeling that change was finally coming. Of course, by the end of the day, Democrats had their asses thoroughly whomped ( Read more... )

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate ( Read more... )

My minimum student loan payment just went down by about 48 dollars a month...and I can't figure out why. I'm not sure I like it, even though it sounds like a good thing. Weird.

I'd like to just talk about how much I'm in love with this song right now. Despite it being from a Dell commercial. And originally being on a CD of songs for children doing yoga.

I am green today ( Read more... )

In 1996, Michelle Obama was Associate Dean of Student Services at University of Chicago. She's a student affairs gal, like me! :)

I hate that time where you really don't feel like doing anything, but it's also really too early to go to bed ( Read more... )

So apparently John McCain keeps mentioning "Czechoslovakia" in various foreign policy speeches. Never mind that Czechoslovakia hasn't existed since 1993 ( Read more... )

It's so weird being up at 1:30 on what's technically a work night...it's been so long. I need to NOT get used to sleeping college student hours again.

I feel like I'm normally a pretty mainstream person in my opinions of things, my crazy radical queer/feminist ideas aside. But sometimes...I find myself just so far away from the opinions of society and the people around me that I find it's best just to keep my mouth shut ( Read more... )

There have been interesting developments! I can't really talk about them yet, but soon.

But it's time to put into action my theory that you have to take risks to truly be happy in life. Let's hope I'm right about that.