So today when I went to lunch, the waitress gave me the obligatory fortune cookie and dish of pineapples. I gobbled up the pineapple chunks (due to my newfound love for the tropical delight) and sort of tucked the bowl away somewhere on the table, but only because I was being fidgety. A different waitress came by and placed another dish of ( Read more... )

I wrote (typed) this long rambling letter that I’m never going to send ( Read more... )

Got the ring off my finger. Take that swollen and gashed open left middle finger that still won't bend! I'm not worried ( Read more... )

I have no idea how I'm able to type right now ( Read more... )

Rt. 78W (not East) is the longest road into the middle of Pennsylvania. Traffic out of Philly during rush hour on I-76W is also a KILLER. Particularly when you're braving a snowstorm. The following eased the impatience: Talking Heads, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Clash, Paul Simon, Ace of Base, and the company of Maria Cobb, Elisabeth ( Read more... )

Someone please explain to me why I always happen to contract some sort of virus with flu-like symptoms every time I come home for the weekend. It really sucks. It's as though the suburbs has germs that the city lacks. Antibiotics for 5 more days, yessss ( Read more... )

Gypsies on Hiatus ( Read more... )

Home home on a Saturday night. Be it as it may, I'm sick, as the case tends to be when I'm home. Given this, Multi-symptom Tylenol Cold and Promethazine are my saving graces. If only they could write my paper on Guatemala, collective memory, and victims of state-sponsored terrorism and torture. Or the three additional papers due in 2 short weeks ( Read more... )

The other day I officially took myself off the politicsmajors listserv. One chapter closed, another crazy one opened. My current prospective major is anthropology. Registered for spring semester classes and got some intro courses in cultural and physical anthropology, hoping that they will be excellent ( Read more... )

I just went into the kitchen to make myself some tea and noticed an unfamiliar box on top of the refrigerator. Rice Krispie Treats. I don't eat that kind of cereal; it's then that I realized that since I don't really live at home anymore, my family doesn't have to accommodate me and my taste for particular delicacies. Gee, only took me more than a ( Read more... )