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Really, now.
Anyone who trys to tell me, "Oh, but you're smart, you'll be able to just BS your way through that Epistemology exam," has completely missed the point. -
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Oh, fuck this and fuck that.
Hello there, Existential Crisis! Back from the grave so soon?
I bet mental wards have softer beds than the one I'm currently sleeping on. -
Still-Life in Vortex
Fun things you too could do in Spokane, WA!1) Have your transmission die while you were on the highway trying to pass through the city ( Read more... ) -
Go, Brain Collective!
Monday (!!!) is my last day of work.
I'm currently in the market for a good last-day fast-foodish prank. If anyone has an idea, you know where to send it.
I've been living for the soon-to-be-manifested mental image of my work t-shirt burning. Yes: the same work t-shirt that, as one of the store owners would confide to male employees, was ( Read more... ) -
The Unsent Correspondences
To Ms. Rowling:
Despite my bittercisms and my doubts, it's completed, you pulled it off. Not well -- no, my judgment of your technique and your talent remains the same -- but still, you've done the grand thing I haven't. You finished something. You completed a creation: and it was in a nod to that that I waited all day in a bookstore, and then ( Read more... ) -
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True quote:
"You're great to have around in awkward situations, because you're just socially awkward all the time. It means no one else ever has to worry about being the awkward one -- no matter how bad it gets, you're there, and it's impossible to be worse than you."
I'm pleased that my talents are being put to good use. -
Amigas, Rivales, y Peces...
My fishtank is a cheap Spanish soap opera ( Read more... ) -
So THAT'S why your species is j-selected!
Carlos got his lips stuck in the filter this morning. I almost had to saw the plastic grating open with a Xacto knife to get him out. I love my fish.
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The paths of glory
I'm a lazy student and a lazy philosopher, and I'm getting away with it.
"P3000. Comments, Englehardt: Such a well-written and organized paper, I have no comments! Grade: A [100]This has been happening all semester, with papers I write the day they're due, three pages an hour, no editing, process-and-print. It terrifies me, because I know the ( Read more... ) -
Et in pulverem reverteris.
Speeches aside: today is my birthday. I have been aging exponentially, and am turning 62. Still, if you would like to do something nice for me, ( read this )