They want me for Assistant Copy Editor at the Chronicle.  And they want to pay me!  Good gravy.

I start Jan 8.

This means I'm gonna be on campus sooner than I expected.. so I'm going in tomorrow to see if they came in and cleaned my room after K8 (and to see if anyone's actually living there now [eep!]).

So basically,

YAY!!!

The modern Christmas invites believer and unbeliever to join together in feasting, one of the few events in which tolerance has triumphed over prejudice, procured over centuries of trial and error.

Christmas is the feast, of not only human kind's redemption, but of human kind itself. Christmas releases -- if only for a few days every year -- ( Read more... )

Still waiting for 2 grades to show up on Oasis.  
The suspense eez keeling me!!

I'm making lemon sugar cookies tomorrow.  The dough is in the fridge.  
They're so time-consuming, but oh, what a JOY they are to eat!

This is the first Christmas that my mother has worked full-time.  She's not been around at all except for evenings, which makes all the ( Read more... )

She's gone.
No more Kate.
No more doors slamming, no more mean notes, no more dying goldfish, no more boogers on the wall!!

My room is empty.

Also,
Luisa asked me to take care of her gardenia while she is in Florida.


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I went to Pick Me Up cafe  and sat at THIS TABLE  (the one against the wall)

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I've been tagged by
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OKAY SO.

BREAKING NEWS!!

Nobody is answering their phone right now, and I just got this really awesome call from someone back in Chicago.

I HAVE AN INTERVIEW!!

Next Thursday.  At 10:45 in the Chronicle office.  For the copy editor posishe.  
This is total excitement overload.  I don't know what I'm going to do for the next nine days.
Grammar, spelling, ( Read more... )

This is several months old, and it's not great, but I thought it was time to set it free.

. . .

You said you wanted to learn
and so it began,
and we began
falling in gently,
building on details.
Given time and circumstance,
certain things bloom anywhere.
Anywhere you are
is where you can find me:
reveling in the simple knowledge
that I am accompanying you,
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I'm testing out this cute layout I got from 
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It's really funny that I didn't know about Columbia's high acceptance rate until I got here.  I was so worried I wouldn't get in and that I'd have to spend another semester in Gary, thus remaining stagnant academically and bored with myself.  Now that I'm here, I'm wondering why it's been so hard to get into the groove of studying like I'm supposed ( Read more... )