This week, I have discovered, is the week for Unnaturally Long Conversations. We've all fallen victim to a ULC at some point- a conversation that should have met a natural demise after five minutes continues on, and on, often for twenty or twenty-five minutes after the main point has been stated, restated, and regurgitated multiple times ( Read more... )

You know that feeling you get at around, oh, 9:30 on Christmas Day? The one where you look at all the new crap that was a total mystery to you that morning and admire the tree that's definitely lost most of its needles and look out at the Christmas lights still on the houses up and down the street. For me, it's sadder than even December 26, when ( Read more... )

Yay for Halloween! Best holiday ever ( Read more... )

To anybody who hasn't already ( Read more... )

So, Midterms over on Friday and hopped on a bus to go to MD for fall break (thank you for driving me there, Katie! You rock my socks.) My bus was supposed to leave at 2 and didn't show up until 2:45, as the bus driver before the one now driving the bus thought it would be fun to take smoke breaks so often that the bus was running almost an hour ( Read more... )

*sings* "I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in ( Read more... )

Yeah... *regards to-do list* it's definitely the week before mid-terms ( Read more... )

So I am fully recovered (well, mostly, I'm like 88% there) and, ladies and gentlemen, I am now positive it was dehydration and much to the Health Center's disappointment, I'm not giving birth to the next Messiah, as oft-predicted. I did, however, get to sleep in until noon on Saturday and drank more water than previously thought possible, so now I ( Read more... )

So I tried to get up to go to class this morning at 9, and didn't make it. This is largely as a result of the fact that my head, for the better part of the week, has had a splitting headache- and I really mean like I feel like someone took a hatchet and just started hacking away. This is occasionally alleviated with Advil, but not enough to ( Read more... )

So all tests are done, paper rough draft is turned in, hypotheses are ready to be presented in an hour. It's so close to the weekend I can smell it ( Read more... )