People, talk to and level with me. What is going on this weekend, anything? I'm bored, don't have a lot of work to do, and want to go out and have some fun just like grandpapa used to have. Not too much though, I wanna read some Orhan Pamuk and see what the hubub is.

1400 words in six hours of not really trying. So far, so good.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=ac9QBu_QoGN4&refer=asiaRead more... )

So, reviewing short stories by class mates was a pain in the ass. A decent story and a terrible story. Weekend was restful, Thanksgiving was delicious and itis inducing. A bank machine ate my bank card on Wednesday, it was silly. I just finished reading surfacing by Margaret Atwood, as ridiculous as feminism was in the 70’s and as ridiculous as ( Read more... )

If you're sensitive about world affairs and all that. North Korea just conducted its first nuclear test, apparently.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061009/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear

~Super-friends, economic utopia and then what? Liberation of creativity ideally, or a life of doldrums more likely. The most likely, actually, that and new oligarchs. Mass politics are slavery as well. What was the name of the guy? I forget now, but he was a Soviet lapdog who toured American universities in 1939, promising a bucket of caviar for ( Read more... )

Sweet Catharsis!

I don't know really what to post about. I'm sick now, on top of everything else. Didn't go to class at all this week. I really am unsure what I want to do about my life, if anything. I think the time has finally come to go into exile and see what happens.

So, I skipped out on the last half (the half that didn't have free donair pizza) of the CKDU annual meeting, and the entirety of my Canadian fiction class this evening. I'm a master at play hooky. One class I've gone to this week, it really did suck. Tuesday I just kind of lay on a couch in a literally comatose state (my arm, she would not move!) ( Read more... )

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