Okay, okay... things don't suck so badly.  New rule:  stop thinking and worrying so damn much.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.  I try to make people happy and I make them cry.  I just fuck up way too much.  There isn't enough alcohol and I fucking hurt everyone I love.  And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  What fucking horrible, painful irony.  God, I want ( Read more... )

Human Rights and Refugees
19 April 2007

Moving On: Nationalism and Beyond in Terms of Migration

In Liisa Malkki's article “National Geographic,” Malkki discusses nationalism and territoriality, and the ways in which the concepts exert their influence in discussions of ethics and morality. For example, cultures and people are assumed to be ( Read more... )

The subject line was told to me and the students at my work/school when we were forced to stay in classrooms and sit still without having access to the bathroom or our own personal property (cell phones).  You see, since a 23 year old who legally bought two handguns killed some people at a college campus a few hundred miles away, students of every ( Read more... )

I'm stressed out.  I'm not really sure why.  Sure, lots and lots of stressors are in my life right now... but I'm invincible, and almost all of these same stressors were here a few weeks ago and I felt fine.  Hmm.

Oh well, time for work/school, followed by desperately trying to catch up in school/school.

I was reading the Epic of Gilgamesh today with my friend (and one of my students) George.  George has such a cool, beautiful, unique mind.  He perceives the world in design and composition.  He can sound out and understand the hardest words, but he stumbles over short, common ones many times.  He gave me an orange after tutoring today.  Anyway, I ( Read more... )

8-10 page paper due Thursday over a book I've yet to get in the mail.  This could be problems ( Read more... )

My Deadly Sins
SEVEN DEADLY SINS

WRATH
1. Who did you last get angry with?:  Bureaucrats at my work.
2. What is your weapon of choice?:  Knives, guns, fists, teeth, brass knuckles, crossbow, blow gun, but especially words.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?:  Not unless I had a damned good reason.
4. How about of the same sex?:  Still not ( Read more... )

I have a large sandwich to eat for lunch.  It looks to be a good one.  Also grapes and some Naked juice.  I am the king of a large castle occupied only by kittens.  I am listening to Reel Big Fish sing happily about how everything sucks.  I also have some of that yuppie-ass Simply Orange juice, and it's damn tasty ( Read more... )

from Oscar Wilde's essay, The Soul of Man Under Socialism ( Read more... )