History class canceled due to professor's laryngitis. Told Helen Keller jokes in German after German class. Have made some good progress on Malthus essay, but that's about it. Still, I'm feeling better...a little homesick, but better ( Read more... )

Am feeling rather low today. In addition to other things which I'd rather not get into here (not being coy, I swear - just letting you know that the reasons I'm feeling low are many and varied), it's definitely a 'fat' day, and the state of my complexion isn't helping. So I've put on the weepy music ("I love Brian Piccolo!") and am revising my ( Read more... )

...and I just want to take this bio test now, damn it, before I go to sleep tonight and possibly forget all of it.

This semester is just flying by. I'm going to miss my great schedule, with no classes on Friday, and Monday and Wednesday mornings free for work. I won't, however, particularly miss any of the classes. Next semester's courses are ( Read more... )

Don't worry - this won't be a poignant post about "I don't remember growing older." Though my knees and hips are giving me trouble, and I'm starting to sympathize with our lab every time he carefully goes from sitting to standing position.

No, it's approximately 6:45, and I've been up for the past 40 minutes. Not doing anything practical, mind you ( Read more... )

Look at the ivy on the cold, clinging wall
Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall
It's not a matter of when push comes to shove
It's just an hour on the wings of a dove

I've met the guy I'm going to marry. No, not Van - the keyboardist. Jeff Labes.

Lucie, you marry Van. And Anne will marry the bass player. And Dad will be soooo happy...

Anyway, ( Read more... )

After 6 months in this room, she managed to clear out in the space of one evening. She left behind only a few used Q-tips (gross), a bag of Famous Amos cookies with one cookie still in there (double gross), and ungodly amounts of hair (triple gross).

That’s right. The odious roommate is gone. I got back to the room from my lab at about 8:45. At ( Read more... )

Classes fine, boring first day read-aloud-from-the-syllabus...

However, in Biology 1002 we learned that we were also required to purchase the Thinkwell's Biology CD set. It'll cost at least $50 and won't have much resale value. We'll need it for our quizzes and out-of-class activities.

This is, pardon my German, a steaming pile of Scheisse. If the CD ( Read more... )

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein

Yes, the terrorists set off the bomb tonight on 24, and now I’m going through the same cycle of worries that I faced after watching The Day After and learning that Kim Jong Il was testing a nuclear weapon.

Good Lord, ( Read more... )

...and then there are a few others, including a certain Russian author:

( My Interests Collage! )

Last of the visiting family left this morning. Kids are back in school. I've finished The Madonnas of Leningrad (excellent) and The Gun Seller (very, very funny). Now I'm reading James Michener's Poland - not one of my Christmas books, but an uncle who was borrowing it from my dad just returned it and I've been meaning to read it for a while.

I ( Read more... )