You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars,
you have a right
to be here.
And whether or not
it is clear to you, no doubt the
universe is unfolding as it should.

-Someone Wiser Than I (DesiderataFeeling more creative than usual but with no medium or outlet. Maybe I'll write. I haven't written so much as a line of a ( Read more... )

I've been feeling pretty intense waves of nostalgia over the past several weeks. Usually I don't get this way till September or so, once the new academic year begins and the leaves start turning. I've been thinking a lot about Mac, which isn't that unusual since I definitely miss my Minnesota friends. What's different is that I've also been ( Read more... )

The fucking car died. Time to get a hoverboard.

Apropos way to end this week.

Today is one of those days where I feel like the world is going to shit. Tried reading the paper this morning and it only depressed me. As if the Hezbollah/Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not enough, the kidnappings and violence in Iraq, the nuclear threats of North Korea and Iran, and our current strained relationship with Russia decidedly tips ( Read more... )

On Sunday, I got a call from my bank saying there were some suspicious transactions on my check card...did I or didn't I just spend $400 at Walmart that morning ( Read more... )

I started clinic a week or two ago. I was freaking out a little at first because I was definitely thrown into it without any kind of guidance. (I'm what the department calls a " 'tweener " since I had to make up undergraduate classes my first year, thus extending my graduate program an additional year.) Anyways, all the other grad students have ( Read more... )

Funny story. Although I certainly didn't see it that way last night ( Read more... )

I went out to a few bars tonight with some girls in my lab because it was one of their birthdays. I realized that I very rarely go to bars without Aaron, and this led me to an ethical dilemma...When is the appropriate time to tell a guy that you have a boyfriend? Do you blurt it out as soon as he introduces himself? I think not. Do you wait ( Read more... )

A baby woodchuck ran into my foot today as I was leaving my apartment. It stopped in its tracks and looked at me like, who the fuck do you think you are? and then scurried into the bushes.

I had a dream last night that I was a fugitive at large in a shopping mall in Berlin and caught a glimpse of videre_licet selling cologne on a gigantic TV in a ( Read more... )

I think I need to stop reading the news.
It sickens me.