drownmedream (10:55:49 PM): I hear ya, brotha.

Auto response from UFO7SKA (10:55:50 PM): i have no energy to do anything for school

drownmedream (10:56:42 PM): At this point, it's just navigating an arbitrary obstacle course to get to that cap-and-gown goal.

Does anyone else think that the video-face-fountains in Millenium Park look a little bit too much like Zordon?


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I have dreams about saying "No, thanks" to the fourth floor of an abandoned hospital, being a Spider-Man that glimmers and gets chased by the FBI, and is outcasted by miniature transformative Ninja Turtles with "only one power."

The Ray Bradbury novel I just began reading describes lightning as "balls of blue light that prowl the earth like sizzling cats." I have a good feeling about this book ( Read more... )

CDV are flying me to San Francisco for a press event next week? Whaaaat. SJ, you will have to school me in the ways of San Fran.

In other exciting news, my Red Wings knocked out the Calgary Flames last night in double-overtime to advance to the second round of the NHL playoffs.

Also, quote of the day via Jerry Holkins:

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I often imagine instances in our lives where the calories from specific foods we're fueled by are made ironic by the actions we commit with that energy. For example, if you happened to be slaying a vampire but your individual attacks and consciousness were powered by the steak and onions you supped last evening.

1. Condensation is a code worth conscripting in writing. Too often, I find my prose stifled by lengthy setup statements that I can only describe as a poisonous dash of meta.
   
   
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Día la primera of my final term in college was paralleled well by the populace's pace. Spring unearths a kind of cumulative, communal energy, and it rose seemingly in unison today with the footsteps, strides, and arm-out-window'd accelerating of my classmates and neighbors. I say a lot of unfriendly things about Naperville, my pseudo-seven-year ( Read more... )

The "Integrating Word & Image" class I've almost completed this term has enabled good things that I feel compelled to highlight.

Something I've always relied on in papers I've written (Creative Non-Fiction, Senior Portfolio, etc.) is the idea of taking into consideration construction and content simultaneously as an English major. IWI has granted me ( Read more... )

Greetings from the future.

The Zelda theme croons dungeonlike behind me: I write from a positive place. The runed seal enforcing my half-dozen-month hiatus is broken -- I'd written to post prior, but never had the heart to plow through an entire entry. In either case, meta-reflection is boring; I herald good news.

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