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tonight: dinner with my old history professor and his wife (also a history professor). try to (a) act like a mature, intelligent historian-in-training and (b) trick them into helping me get into grad school ( Read more... )

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/2/10581/84829

i love russ feingold so much.

no matter how confusing things get, life keeps going. something good might be happening, but i don't want to jinx it, so i'll just be annoyingly vague. details will be forthcoming sometime in the next month or two, depending on a lot of factors ( Read more... )

getting another cold is not awesome.

my classes are awesome. work is awesome, or at least as awesome as it can be. my friends are obviously awesome. life is awesome.

except my vocabulary is not awesome, or at least not extensive. someone buy me a thesaurus.

i finished all of my homework for tomorrow. i decided that i still hate postmodernism, mostly because it seems to encourage the use of a bunch of stupid made-up words ( Read more... )

i know i've said this before, but i think i would've done very well in communist russia. or communist czechoslovakia, for that matter. i think i'd be pretty happy to let someone else make all my decisions. i just don't have the energy ( Read more... )

so i'm back in new york. i had this whole plan to not drink for two weeks to give my body a chance to rest. that hasn't worked out so well. i'm a little drunk now, and i was very drunk last night. but i had good reasons, trust me. the strangest things keep happening to me, and i'm feeling pretty good about this semester. i'm taking a class with ( Read more... )