Today I went to the apple store to see if I could buy my mom an ipod. We wern't sure what kind she wanted, but the guy was pretty helpful, and he talked to me about getting a laptop for college. He didn't recommend the Mac Book air and definitely said that you could just use one of the more basic kinds, the basic mac book with the OS 10.5 to get ( Read more... )

Spring Break has started most excellently.  Nothing like drunken partying (of the legal sort) with my family at a very expensive restaurant being very loud (they all had about five glasses of wine and a cocktail apiece. By the time cake rolled around they were singing Auld Lang Syne at the top of their lungs. Awesome? I am not sure yet.) This was ( Read more... )

I am siiiiick.

All cough-ey and feverish and gross gross gross feeling.

And it's only eleven am. This one was in the sink. The other one was even bigger and on the ceiling. We usually leave ceiling-spiders alone, but he was too big.


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Our version of Scrabble ( Read more... )

I'm watching Jesus Camp and I had to say something. The first day of this camp the pastor tells all the kids they're liars and they're phonies and that they need to repent. All the kids are crying. And I was thinking. In the dirtiest, most heathen angry mosh pit in the world, there's still going to be somebody to catch you and put you back right or ( Read more... )

YES I FINALLY HAVE THE FIRST HALF PARAGRAPH OF MY RESEARCH PAPER MAYBE JUST MAYBE I CAN GET THIS THING FINISHED SOMEDAY HOPEFULLY BEFORE ITS DUE ON TUESDAY

Edit: The rain that's turned my property into marsh is now snow and is transforming the house into a frosty wonderland, all crispy and cold with big, fat flakes falling from the sky.

    Life seems a little simpler when one parent is cut out of the living situation. When it's mom and I I get cut some slack. As long as I get work done and clean up after myself I can be pretty much wherever, whenever. When it's dad and I as long as I tell him exactly where I am and who I'm with I don't really have to do any work or clean up after ( Read more... )

"If,", she repeated, "you don't have a pencil, but are old enough to read and write--this is what the guy means, isn't it, you dope--scratch the number somehow on the roadside."
    "With your little claws, Lolita."

My FCP is on Tuesday and  I think we're going to kick ass. Who couldn't enjoy a seventy minute period in which they receive both M&Ms and Condoms?

T


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The Four B's of Why Your Girlfriend is Probably Throwing Up ( Read more... )