This song is really really pretty.

It's gray and cold and rainy, and somehow I kinda like it.

White Noise is a really good book.

I got all my classes.

I really want to take a semester off. I won't. I want to go sleep on the beach somewhere.

Umm. I can't wait for Thanksgiving. I need a break from school.

Yay, my courses for next semester look so much more interesting than the ones I have this semester:

Aesthetics: WF 2:20-3:35
Phenomenology and Existentialism: MW 12:45-2:00
Irish Literature: W 11:10-12:25, F 12:45:2:00
Environmental Geology: TR 9:35-10:50, W 5:10-7:00
Man and Natural Environment: TR 11:10-12:25 ( Read more... )

Me: Want me to tell you the descriptive theory of proper names ( Read more... )

First day of work = over. My feet are very tired- too much standing. Otherwise, it was a whole lotta nothin'. Reading, mostly. And I get an hour for lunch, plus a 15 minute break. Plus 100 dollars a month in Metro money. Not a bad deal, all things considered ( Read more... )

Watched a very strange (arch, artsy) movie about Wittgenstein today- called Wittgenstein. It was more or less a meditation on the sheer strangeness of the man, the textbook example of "tortured genius" if ever there was one. If you aren't familiar with his story, you should read his wiki bio- he's truly fascinating ( Read more... )

So today I registered myself as a business being contracted by the federal government ( Read more... )

I gots a job ( Read more... )

Never have I seen a more naked display of state power. Men in black suits getting out of black Lincolns, surrounded by the most formidable police presence I've ever witnessed. No real sign of the giant protests that were supposed to be happening- I guess they're around, lots of people I know are allegedly at them, but they sure as hell aren't very ( Read more... )

I have short hair now.


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I haven't been so choked up by anything in a very long time.

Please read this. It's about a young man who died in Iraq. He enlisted, in part, because he had read Christopher Hitchens's pieces defending the moral case for the war. The article is Hitchens's mea culpa. Read it- if for no other reason than to experience one of the best and bravest ( Read more... )