I made ice cream last night with ScopeEye. It was fun. It was so simple; half and half in a coffee can, vanilla extract, sugar, then put it in a bigger coffee can with ice and rock salt, roll back and forth on floor for 10 minutes, eat ice cream. ScopeEye licked the lid, Ha! The taste of rock salt made him wince ( Read more... )

My bosslady sent out an email asking for weekly schedules. Apparently, we graduate students are expected to sit at our desks 40 hours a week. This is a little absurd. I get paid for 20, and I know that we are expected to work more than 40, which I do, but seriously? Often times I like to work from home or go in late, etc. This policy had me really ( Read more... )

I live in a really mixed neighborhood. Africans, African-americans, Korean, Thai, Chicanos, White people ( Read more... )

When I was in Texas for Spring break some cowboy (yes, a real-life cowboy) stepped on my big toe and swiveled around on it in his boots. I have tried to prevent it from falling off all together. There was a portion of it that was spared from the trauma ( Read more... )

I miss MJ, but, not like I expected I would. When James Brown died, I was sad for weeks and dumb-struck. I couldn't believe he had actually died. A large part of me thought he was immortal. After "I'm black and I'm proud" and the crack problems and the concerts at the rodeos, how could he really have been mortal ( Read more... )

It's so awesomely hot in my hometown, 105. yay, people keep complaining about it. I just want to lay in the grass, in the full sun, until I get heat-sickness.

It takes 45 minutes to for me to get to the Sheridan Red line stop after that I look out the window, usually waking p from a short daze ( Read more... )

I've never been lonely. I am alone much of the time, but I am not sure what it means to be lonely ( Read more... )

I went to the corner store to get toilet paper. I only a $20, so I decided I would get a 6 pack too. Toilet paper and beer ( Read more... )

I bruise like a banana, I always have.

I have broken my nose 4 times in my life, every time my face never bruised?? I got a microdermal anchor piercing on my face close to the corner of my eye. I really expected to get a black eye. I haven't, which is fine by me.

I don't get it. I bruise everywhere, but my face? Weird.