My new picture is an Axolotl. Which is my new favorite type of salamander because it has an X in the name. Also, the name of a story by Julio Cortazar. http://shortstory.byethost6.com/cortazaraxolotl.htmlRead more... )

The full title of the song I'm listening to is "Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me At 11:00 On Friday Morning To Tell Me That 1:00 Friday Afternoon You Were Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail A Cab, To Go Out To The Airport, To Catch A Plane, To Go Skiing In The Alps For Two Weeks. Not That I Wanted To Go With You; I Wasn't ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to comment on this online. I've been angry, and I still am, but I was going to avoid the subject of Milsovic because I felt that I had become didactic and one subject oriented, that it would be too easy to write whatever comments I made off as another genocide rant. Well, that all may be true, but frankly, I'm rather annoyed right ( Read more... )

Ok, I was having fun with language tools on google. I ran "The Thin People" through every language and back, and here's what I got...(lineation is my decision ( Read more... )

I just finished reading a very very beautiful book called Gazelle by Rikki Ducornet. Set in Egypt during the 1950s, the book is about a 13 year old girl whose mother cheats on her father and later leaves them and moves into a hotel. Elizabeth becomes enamored with one of her father's friends Ramses Ragab, who is older and runs a perfume shop ( Read more... )

I am listening to angry female music. It makes me happy. There's no real reason why--in fact, more reasons for the opposite. The sun is shining, the weather is beautiful, and only good things have happened today. I woke up at A's house, ate breakfast, then went to a Riverbend meeting. I'm going to revise poetry when I stop procrastinating ( Read more... )

Gah, today was pretty crappy. I have bad allergies, which is significantly not good. I did rather badly on a Bio AP test (the highest I can get is an 88), and after all that, I just feel rather apathetic and unhappy for no particular reason. Still, I have discovered that I am seriously in love with strawberries (my mom has some in the fridge which ( Read more... )

Ani Difranco is coming to Jazz Fest. This is the best news I've had in a while. I fully intend to go and see her, regardless of what day she comes ( Read more... )

I am exhausted. That is probably going to be the gist of this post (ha, as if I could sustain three posts in a row that are almost completely unrelated to this sort of subject ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in a while, and this is as good of a time to as any, considering that I've finished all of my pressing homework and have no intention of starting my non pressing homework (ha, when do I ever do that early ( Read more... )