"Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." - A Separate Peace by John Knowles

"Remember when you fell ill in the first grade
and got to stay home and went to the grocery
store with your mother?"

So tired so tired so tired.

I feel like I finally have a mental list of everything I need to do from now until June 13th. It's a long, long list, but I can account for all of it now, and I am slowly but surely crossing things off.

And then I felt the scrapes
From the slippery subway grate
Oh, how you laughed
At my complete lack of grace

But I could not recall
A more perfect fall
'Cause when I looked up into your eyes
It didn't hurt at all

I've always liked to listen to John Mayer's "Quiet" on nights like this.

Full text of Obama's speech ( Read more... )

Keep your faith in all beautiful things;
in the sun when it is hidden,
in the spring when it is gone.

- Roy R. Gilson

I WISH I HAD NO MORE SCHOOL! I wish school was overrr! I'm sing-songing this line in my head to keep from going insane! bah bah bah

Today I had to wait for 15 minutes to catch a bus back to campus after my class at the agriculture school. During that time, I stood with a bunch of other students at the bus stop next to a four lane road. It was snowing so much that after 10 minutes my feet were frozen and the crevices in my coat had filled up with snow. I stood there and couldn't ( Read more... )

The most famous center, that is often said to be the birthplace of farming is the fertile crescent at the eastern end of the Mediterranean. This is where wheat, barley, peas, lentils, onions, figs and pears originated. Soybean, peach and orange originated in China, rice banana, and sugarcane in India and southeast Asia. Africa gave us sorghum, ( Read more... )