"If I think about all the girls I've known or slept with or just desired, they're like a bunch of Russian dolls. We spend our lives playing the game dying to know who'll be the last, the teeny-tiny one hidden inside all the others. You can't just get to her right away. You have to follow the progression. You have to open them one by one wondering ( Read more... )

When I was really young (sometime in elementary school) I remember being at the De Young Museum with my dad and sister.  We were sitting around when, I don't remember how the subject was brought up, but my dad asked me how I thought our family stacked economically compared to the rest of the world.  I replied "average".  My world at that point was ( Read more... )

Batesies who go abroad and party with other Batesies make me wanna vom.  What's the point of going abroad then?  A semester long vacation ( Read more... )

Xavier: When you first arrive in a new city, nothing makes sense. Everythings unknown, virgin... After you've lived here, walked these streets, you'll know them inside out. You'll know these people. Once you've lived here, crossed this street 10, 20, 1000 times... it'll belong to you because you've lived there. That was about to happen to me, but I ( Read more... )

I want to go to Turkey now ( Read more... )

I am finally home in Palo Alto after the most excruciating finals week ever. I completed neglected my life outside of studying for a few weeks, and I have the daunting task of catching up. My apologies to those I have not kept in touch with ( Read more... )

A recent, extradionary event occured in my life. Two days ago while walking down the street I was nearly crushed by a run away street car. This occurence opened my eyes and has caused me to reveal something I have kept hidden for a number of years. From 1989 to 1992 I gave 150 million dollars to the men who would later form the Taliban. ( Read more... )

You know you're stressed about finals when the library turns the lights out on you on a Saturday night.

STRESS.

It's finals time here at Bates College. As an econ major who has half of her classes in foreign languages, I don't write many papers. I have a 5 page paper for Anthropology earlier this semester and I nearly had a panic attack. I have a 15-pager for my Economics of Taxation class on US tax reform compared to other OECD nations. I even chose ( Read more... )