Yesterday at work a pair of very pretty blond girls came into the restaurant. They chatted and gossiped for a while before placing their orders. When I tried to give one of them her receipt, her arm just kind of froze, and she stared at me ( Read more... )

Can it really be that all I did all semester was stay indoors and drink my money away? Because that is how it seems.

There is a new year coming up. All I want to do is keep myself busy. Keep myself awake.

Oh my god oh my god I have such an insane amount of work to do. But I feel completely incapable of doing it ( Read more... )

I had a conversation with a boy at work this week ( Read more... )

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I've gotten into the habit of grabbing the first book that comes to hand whenever I leave for work, so I'll have something to read on break ( Read more... )

I think this summer has been good for thinking about what's important. I don't feel very different as a person. I always thought I knew what was important, and so far none of that knowledge has changed. It just seems too easy ( Read more... )

I'm so bored and tired I am going a little crazy. I want to go back to school so I can work some more at becoming a professional reader of books. To that end, I feel like going on a bit of a whinge about some of the books I read this summer. Here are some of the ones I can remember.

( Further reading recommendations are highly encouraged. )

Today I was making a smoothie and I almost accidentally poured in a whole bunch of frozen vegetarian meatballs.

Some pondering. I got a pretty nice pat on the back today. A former professor emailed me to say that she name dropped me to the school's director of national scholarships, hoping to steer me into a future in academic research ( Read more... )