Walking to and on campus, I pass by a lot of birds - pigeons, crows, just regular city birds. They are all domesticated and don't fly away as people walk past them, perhaps even on them.. because lately, I've been looking at their feet, and so many of them are terribly mutated ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/arts/design/15abroad.html?pagewanted=1&8dpc

"He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past"
-Love in the Time of Cholera

Too true.

I've decided to make my journal completely friends only. Comment if you want access.

Thanks!
Nami

P.S. If we are already LJ friends then don't worry about responding to this :)

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever "in and of itself".
--Chuck Klosterman

I love you, stuffed elk/deer/ram/whatever-you-are..

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Questions posed word-for-word by Chuck Klosterman in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, one of my fave books ( Read more... )

I got this letter in an e-mail. Read it and participate if you have diez min

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FACT: As of year end 1999, there were 706,600 Texans in prison, jail, parole or probation on any given day. In a state with 14 million adults, this meant that 5% of adult Texans, or 1 out of every 20, are under some form of criminal justice supervision. (1 ( Read more... )

You can only type one word. No explanations!1. Yourself: cute ( Read more... )