Well, I have submitted my first real paper for college, via e-mail. I initially sent it in the wrong file format, so hopefully I won't get dinged too much on it. It really wasn't that good of a paper. It counts for 15% of my grade, so hopefully I'll be able to recover if it doesn't go well ( Read more... )

I had PT for the first time today. We ran a little under 3 miles today in 19 minutes or so. I was at the head of the line (we were running in formation). I started to totally run out of gas in the last 100 feet or so. The calisthenics after that were nearly unbearable. I experienced some major dizziness and vision distortion ( Read more... )

I am sitting in the barracks basement, in the VMI computer lab. STP is great. My English course doesn't appear like it will be too difficult, and I like my roommates. For that matter, I think that almost every upcoming cadet here is of the highest caliber ( Read more... )

In approximately 6 hours, I will climb into our Expedition and begin a trip to VMI, for STP a.k.a. summer school for pre-rats. I look forward to it ( Read more... )

I finished Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase. It was great... in fact, I think it's the best thing I've ever read by him (out of the massive total of three novels). Apparently. Dance Dance Dance, or something similar to that is the sequel? Sounds good to me ( Read more... )

Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase makes me very happy.

I think I may be coming to grips with and my vices and virtues, and to some degree the world that I live in.

This one's for all the big Ayn Rand fans:

"In the faces of men and women I see God." -Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

Damn expectations. Damn hope. Damn insecurity.

I think that pretty well covers it.

Telemarketers are people too.