Brother: You should avoid trans fats.
Me: Well, I went to Dunkin Donuts...
Brother: Oh you're so screwed
Me: No, that's the thing. It said NO TRANS FAT on the box!
Brother: Well legally corporations can say it has no calories or trans fats or cholesterol if it has less than five grams
Me: Seriously?
Dad: (interjects) Well, here in America, we have this ( Read more... )

From the library:
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Hedda Gabler (a play I need to read for class)
some other book with a really long title that I can't be bothered to go retrieve... sorry guys, I'm just so tired

I'm sure that there is such a thing as "too much of a good thing." I figure this because I'm wondering what book I ought to start when I finish We. There are a ton of titles on my list, but they're on my list because they belong to certain categories. As of right now I'm tired of reading about anything LGBT related (characters of this persuasion ( Read more... )

Three things ( Read more... )

I bought another pumpkin today. But what's the point.

It really fills my heart with pain to wonder how it is that I have so many friends and yet I haven't been invited to do anything on Halloween. I don't think anyone can comprehend how important it is to me to have a good Halloween. I have no idea what I'm doing this coming Sunday, and it sucks.

I want to start a real-life Midnight Society. It's one thing to sit around with friends reading spooky stories, but when they've put in the effort to memorize one and tell it eloquently and cast a couple of Canadian kids to portray unrealistic sibling relationships, that's cool as hell. I mean it might be an issue trying to find a middle of the ( Read more... )

Things I mean to portray in my novel ( Read more... )

If you are a Biblical literalist, you likely haven't read it word for word.

And if you have, you scare the shit out of me.

So if you've read my journal before, you'll know I've been really worried about my major. But guess what? I went to see my advisor and we worked out a plan. If I study abroad during the summer, it'll knock out four courses I'd have to take otherwise, and it'll only take six weeks. I will major in both Spanish and linguistics and graduate in Spring ( Read more... )

It might make me late for Algebra but I really feel like blogging.

So as many of you know, today was a day for wearing purple as a sort of campaign against homosexual abuse and especially suicide. I was excited because purple is my favorite color and I am aware that in many places, abuse is still quite an issue. So today I donned my purple shirt ( Read more... )