Senior year of college = sitting on Zoe and Drew's sofa with ten other people scattered around the room, watching Aladdin and eating ice cream cone cupcakes, everybody stoned but me.

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The long story short(1) This semester is going to be insanely busy. Seventeen credits, three of which will result in my time-intensive, one-on-one-with-a-professor creative writing senior thesis. Also: survey of Tibetan Buddhism (love it), philosophy of religion, heavy on Hume, Aquinas and Kant (love it, but it's all over my head), survey of ( Read more... )

This serves as a great introduction to my sister.

reelswedishfish: ohmygod, so we got serenaded tonight
reelswedishfish: and in the middle they do the "i'm too sexy for my shirt song"
reelswedishfish: too sexy for my pants, etc
reelswedishfish: the guy has those like snap up pants
reelswedishfish: and he fucking rips them off
reelswedishfish: and ( Read more... )

The Peace Corps application process, I'm learning, is frighteningly similar to sorority rush. You fill out masses of paperwork. You get letters of rec. You have an interview with someone whom you have to sell on your worthiness to be accepted. Then they go to the rest of the organization and say, "This is why we need to have ________ join," and if ( Read more... )

So last night I bought my ex-boyfriend a lap dance.

I seriously need to start eating more protein.

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J. just texted me, 4.0, babycakes, which makes my 3.4 look rather paltry in comparison, but it is the best GPA I've gotten since freshman year, and in a semester that included an obligatory-but-dreaded science class and a work schedule of 30 hours a week, I'm pretty impressed with myself. This is the first semester of college that I've managed to ( Read more... )

Between classes we all somehow end up in the Madison Review office -- drinking coffee, checking the facebook, scrambling to print out our scrabbled-together papers on Joyce or "The Wasteland." Last week I was there reading book reviews online, and suddenly I turned to everyone else and said, "Somehow I need to become obscenely wealthy so that all I ( Read more... )