Here, at long last, is the second piece of prose that I’ve been working on for this online journal. I’m still really not sure how comfortable I am with posting this for all the world to see, but I hope you like it ( Read more... )

You know you’re complaining too much about having to write in your journal when your parents tell you that it’s “getting old.” Actually, that’s a pretty fair comment - I’ve spent my allotted space on whining about having to do this and now it’s time to stop. So, I promise that I won’t bring up the fact that I can’t think of anything to say most ( Read more... )

Man, this journal entry is taking forever to even start. I can’t even imagine how long it’s going to be until I finish this damn thing. First off, I had someone pay me an incredible compliment today. Mike Darling, one of my best friends and an English-major over at University of Pitt, said he had been reading one of my previous journal entries ( Read more... )

Once you get to college, you realize that the four major food groups are not actually the ones previously taught in health class of high school, but are in fact comprised of Easy Mac, Quick Mac, uh… Generic Brand Mac, and Other - with Other totaling those subcategories such as fruits, dairy and the all-important meats. I’m exaggerating of course, ( Read more... )

God bless Sandip. If it weren’t for him, I don’t know that would have actually gotten done my Japanese tonight. I think that first sentence needs a little bit of clarification, so I’ll make with the back story: Last night our hall’s favorite incoherent Indian knocks on my door at around 2:30 a.m. asking us if we want - of all things - a cup of ( Read more... )

Penn State’s internet connection is acting up once again, flaunting its unreliability and general crappiness for all the university to see. I tried to get online not more than a few minutes ago in order to update this journal, and was surprised to find that nothing was loading. I immediately panicked, thinking that maybe my connection had been ( Read more... )

If you were at the HUB lawn today for the Simmons-Atherton powderpuff football game, you would have been subject to an odd and vaguely discomforting sight - the rest of my hall and I, all shirtless, with letters spelling out “GO SIMMONS” on our chests and the names of various girls playing in the game on our backs. Hopefully this will all be ( Read more... )

It’s been an interesting night. I spend approximately twenty minutes in line for a psychic reading at the HUB around 11:30, and when I reached the end of said line was given a number and told to come back in about two hours - apparently the entire rest of Penn State was also in the mood for a little paranormal guidance. So I returned at 1:30 and ( Read more... )

Yes, I do realize it’s been quite a while (four days to be exact) since I’ve last updated this journal. Why the extreme negligence? Well, I’ve been kinda busy as of late stressing over my short story for English class, and so I kept setting aside a portion of each day to work on it. Unfortunately I never really figured out how to end the piece, ( Read more... )

Right now I’m trying desperately to come up with an idea for my short story that’s due this Thursday for English class. So far I’ve got nothing. Part of my problem stems from the fact - as I mentioned in my very first journal entry - that my writing naturally gravitates towards fantasy and science fiction (both true hallmarks of being a dork), ( Read more... )