I'm going to be here at the library for the foreseeable future, working on two papers that are due tomorrow morning. One is a book review for my Sociology of Complex Organizations class, and the other is that take-home final for Herndon's Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements class. It's going to be grueling, but I can take it: after I finish ( Read more... )

You know, I hate my classmates sometimes. In my Revolutions class, we were asked whether we wanted an in-class exam or a take-home exam. I voted for the in-class, but was overruled. What the hell? For the in-class exam, all we would have had to do would be write a single long essay over what we've been talking about the second half of the ( Read more... )

Ack! Seals rape penguins! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7379554.stm

Is nothing sacred? *dies*

Gah. One more class, and then I'm done. Nothing left to do but final exams and papers. Where the hell did this semester go?

Am trying to hunt down a spoken word album called "Closed on Account of Rabies: Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe." The stories/poems on this two-disc album are read by the likes of Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Walken, Iggy Pop, Abel Ferrara, Ken Nordine, Ed Sanders, Gavin Friday, Diamanda Galas, and the clencher (for me), Jeff Buckley ( Read more... )

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Talked to Lynn (from the Colorado Mountain Ranch) today. I am now officially the head cook for the coming summer. Orson will most likely be my second-in-command (if I have my way), though surprisingly Sam is not going to be wrangling next summer and may be in the kitchen with me as well. If so, that would be awesome: with both Christina and ( Read more... )

Sometimes my inner prick gets the best of me, and I find myself unable not to say that mean thing that's lurking in the back of my mind ( Read more... )

That giant fucking travesty of a debate was a nail in the coffin for the Democrats in the election. Obama wilted like a two-year old with hurt feelings, and near as I can tell, Clinton's entire cunning strategy was to act like a shrill, petty hypocrite ( Read more... )