WHITE SOX WON! WE WON! WHITE SOX!

Thanks, White Sox, for turning a crappy night victorious. If only I had friends here who care. BAH I MISS HOME! AND HOME FRIENDS. AND HOME. PERIOD. CHICAGO. CHICAGO! I bet you're alive and insane now! THE HOMELAND. MOTHER CHICAGO. MOTHER AND FATHER AND SISTER AND BROTHER CHICAGO. WE WON!!!!!!!! BAAAAYYYYAYAAYYAAHHH ( Read more... )

"'Never' and 'again' are the two most overused words ( Read more... )

When I asked where my neighbors were going all dressed up (how dare I forget about what day it is!) they replied "To a jewish holiday themed party ( Read more... )

If you have the chance, see M.I.A. in concert. Especially if Spank Rock is opening. It will be a raging, enlightening dance party. If not for her, at least for her dj. (There was a mash-up of "Bingo" with "Big Pimpin"!) But don't get lost in the D for about an hour in a small-ish car with 6 people in it. Because that's not too fun ( Read more... )

"You only want to go because you think Clive Owen will be there."
--Emy Winkler, on why I want to study abroad in Senegal

She knows me too well.

Open forum:
Freeballin' vs. Crunkballin'

also, if anyone's read "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man":
wonderful or pretentious load? is it liberating?

"Madonna is never uninteresting."
--my comparative politics professor

Also, in Engl 372 (English/American Lit 1830-present, which analyzes victorianism, modernism, and postmodernism) we're watching "Clueless" because it's postmodern. OR IS IT?

Leah: I'm always going to go trick-or-treating.
Sam Tai: So you're going to go as a 42 year-old woman?
Leah: No, last year I went as an 80's girl.

You can't make up stuff like that.
I think this journal is just going to be full of AMAZING quotes.

You know you're back in East Quad when ( Read more... )

My days lately are full of summer photos, packing, Hemingway short stories, music, and goodbyefornows. Wu Tang, Balkan gypsy music, Jurassic 5, Cesaria Evora, and Bob Dylan "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack -- The Bootleg Series Vol. 7" are getting me through packing. For what is the Bob Dylan bootleg album the soundtrack, you ask? Why, a ( Read more... )