i went to see M.I.A. last night at the Arches. she. is. the. coolest. actually, she was nearly upstaged by this sixteen year old from Baltimore who's on tour with her:

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why, why must they make us write two research papers at the same time? i believe that they're both due on exactly the same day as well! (naturally, the first day back after the holiday....merry christmas!) how do you seperate research when it's revolving around topics raised in your 'practice' (i hate that word). no doubt i'm going to basically ( Read more... )

hey y'all. it's been awhile since i updated this thing, i guess i never feel like i have any news. but today my friends, i do. i ran the half marathon! that's 13 miles! woohoo! it was every bit as grueling as i imagined, but i'm pretty happy with my time of 2 hours and 18 minutes. it felt pretty cool to run with a bunch of strangers and then get ( Read more... )

I feel like a huge asshole about my last post(which is now deleted). Please, everyone who read it, I wish you could forget it ever happened! It was all blurted out in a moment of frustration, and I totally ignored the part of my brain that said it was way too mean to actually post. It was really one of those things I just needed to vent about and i ( Read more... )

My film class is so good. We're studying American Films Since 1950, specifically focusing on poetic realism. We've watched some excellent ones so far and my prof made this huge list of films that qualify as examples of poetic realism. Here's what I recommend:

1. Lovely and Amazing. It has Catherine Keener and Jake Gyllenhaal, what more could you ( Read more... )

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I've decided I need to use this thing a lot more. I read other people's journals everyday and hardly ever update mine. Now, the hard part will be trying to make nothing sound interesting ( Read more... )

Oh man, I'm starting to feel the burn...of school that is. I am really excited for Christmas holidays, not because I love shopping for gifts with my non-existant funds and attending countless family events, but because I could really use a break from school. I actually only really need a break from my academic classes, not my kunstwerk, because ( Read more... )

Oh man, I just did something so dumb! Okay, here's the story: All the thesis students have to do this mock Grant Application assignment for our seminar class. I had been working pretty hard on it for about a week. So, today I was just finishing it up and had plenty of time before it was due to buy a nice folder and put it all together, when, here ( Read more... )

I was just at school for 31 hours. Oh yes, I am so hardcore! Actually, although I did do a fair amount of work, a good portion of that time was spent with Denise, and for those of you who know Denise, the hours can easily whittle away when you're in her company. The highlight would have to be the 3:30 a.m. dance party we had in the barn wearing ( Read more... )