so today was the day, after weeks and months of practicing and stressing about how the heck are we gonna pull this off after not going to soo many practices. it was one of the most exhilirating and positive experiences i've ever had. it just made me enjoy it. even with bloody toes and blisters and horrendously insane costume changes and everything ( Read more... )

byu-stanford men's volleyball.
game 4: byu, 2 wins; stanford, 1...
32 - 30.

OUR WIN.

the adrenaline rush was incredible. first the stanford fans caused me to lower my head in shame that humans are actually capable of going THAT LOW, but in an instant their preppy daddy's-girl ten-year-old CRAP was drowned out by a flood of support from the OTHER side ( Read more... )

another thing about tonight is very simple but has infinite amounts of significance. KT STOP THE BIG WORDS AND LABOR-INTENSIVE SENTENCES ... GO ( Read more... )

that will always bug me until they fix it. which will probably be never ( Read more... )

hey, supposing for a moment that we're all senators in this great nation of ours, let's consider this:

any time something doesn't go exactly the way you want it (and we're not talking about legislation here), don't worry if you're in the minority -- if the president appoints justices that you don't approve of, forget that whole democratic process ( Read more... )

just reading up on mccarthy and his "ism" in my textbook... and to my great amusement it occurred to me that i think it's safe to say...

the whole fabrication of the pretend disease "homophobia" is, in and of itself, quite undeniably
MCCARTHYISM at its best.

American Heritage and all of its friends backed me up on this one:

Mc·Car·thy·ism (m
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so this week was marked by some.. remarkable events. particularly, yesterday's breaking down in the middle of chemistry when i just couldn't handle it anymore. then today, this morning, getting out of bed after barely 5 hours of sleep for the ... many times ... in a row: after literally staggering around for a good 60 seconds of inability to ( Read more... )

just got back from yw, about to return to the penitentiary of the dining room where my history homework would be eagerly awaiting....

but kristie's watching serendipity and i haven't seen it so i came to the office (here, the residence of the computer) and decided it was a mandate to write. quickly.

at yw (young women, youth group) i met with two ( Read more... )

i wasn't even thinking about writing in my journal but i just downloaded bron-y-aur stomp (zeppelin) and i decided i needed to write something about the fact that this song literally gives meaning to my life.

k so this isn't gonna be very long because the point of coming home was partly so i could do my homework, but..

another dance. i went cos it was the napoleon dynamite one, so i was all excited and whatever, plus everyone was like you HAVE to go!!! .. but then i get there and basically felt like every time i tried to join in with another little ( Read more... )