It's Friday today ( Read more... )

I'm taking a winter interim class called Science Fiction and Religion, and for our final project we can either write a paper or a story. I have a story that I've been waiting to turn into a comic, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to use it for this project first. I just wrote this (while I was supposed to be working on my other, analytical paper, ( Read more... )

Every year I've lived in Chicago the first real snow has fallen at about midnight on December 1st. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas ( Read more... )

I have narrow shoulders, but I tend to carry a lot of stuff on them. Recently someone asked me why I always grab the heavy groceries. I don't know, I said, maybe some sort of pride thing, maybe some sort of compensation against femininity. Chicago is nicknamed the city of broad shoulders. My shoulders always hurt because I carry all my stress there ( Read more... )

It snowed for the third time today, but for the first time it was enough to be clearly visible, and I was walking over the river in Chinatown. The wind wasn't so bad today either, so the big flakes fell unhurried into the water. I was on the north side of the street, so I could see the Sears Tower all diffused in the distance ( Read more... )

I wrote this in an email to my twelve year old friend (interested in 'unschooling') today ( Read more... )

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It's summer, I'm in two summer classes. Six weeks, and a lot of work; I don't know how I keep fooling myself into thinking I'm starting over, when the same routine keeps on popping up. Anyway, there's no way out of hard work, and at least in such a condensed session there isn't much time for procrastinating ( Read more... )

So guys, guess what?

I just took adderall for the firstest time evar.
Lets see what happens now. Maybe my impossible finals will be completed by morning! Probably not though. I'm pretty good at not sleeping for weeks and focusing on obsessive details without stimulants.

Into the computer lab on the ninth floor, one minute after hunched in the bathroom on the ninth floor, previous to that talking to Jordan and Mandy, Mandy on the phone, eighth floor up to ninth floor and I’m not sure anymore if I want to come over tonight ( Read more... )