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Favorite Word
It doesn't happen too often, but my default picture is quite appropriate here. I have a favorite word in the English language, and I want to know everyone else's. Here is what I could find on the word
CATHARSIS
ca.thar.sis [kuh-thahr-sis] -noun, plural -sesthe purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through certain ( Read more... ) -
Psychotic Midnight Adventures in the Kitchen
I had a crazy day at work. I mean, really crazy. I was nearly in tears when I clocked out, and I snapped at my best friend when she was giving me a ride home ( Read more... ) -
"Does this make me look fat?" and other queries...
I broke up with a guy who wasn't even my boyfriend today. Wow. Points of interest:
-extremely full of himself
-brought me four doubles without telling me the crucial fact that they were doubles
-uses the word "gay" to describe anything bad
-reaction to Les Demoiselles D'Avignon: "Wow, looks like porn ( Read more... ) -
Good Advice
Advice on Becoming a Great Writer
Provided by John Burnett, National Public Radio Reporter
Create a "driveway moment" with each story you write.
Note: In NPR-speak, a "driveway moment" is defined as that moment when you're listening to an NPR report, and its so interesting, that you keep listening after you've already pulled in to your ( Read more... ) -
Tonight, its like I don't exist.
Grey's Anatomy and CSI season premiers. Cell phone will be off. If Grey's Anatomy starts to suck, I'm going to be pissed, but I'll still watch. Cuz I'm a total girl like that. Cell phone will be off. -
Jealous Guilty Hate
There are always going to be people who are better than you, and we will always resent them for it. Personally, I hate beautfiul girls who are skinny, have four-point-oh GPAs, and are nice to everyone. I know these girls are better than me, and I seem to be surrounded by them. Okay, I'm not really surrounded by them, but I meet a lot of them, and ( Read more... ) -
No Car...
So I'm not getting a car. I'm really depressed about this and I don't really want to talk about it. So that's that. -
Perhaps I was wrong.
So I had coffee with Peter tonight. That was actually good. I think I've been way too shut off. I've been fairly close to simply writing off humanity as a whole as a bunch of complete morons. No, scratch that. Let's say too difficult to deal with. I don't get out enough, and I work in customer service, so most of the people I meet are from school ( Read more... ) -
Another Quasi-Philosophical Rambling Post...
Is pain beauty? Is beauty pain? These statements imply much more than the superficial, but I'll start there ( Read more... )
