This is the morning news.

I found a puppy on Tuesday. A six week old pit bull puppy, hyper and nipping at my ankles. But when I picked her up and held her, and she settled right down and curled into me, I was a goner. She spent most of the day with us and I called her Bella. Her owner called later that night. It turns out that I went to elementary school with him and he ( Read more... )

A Prayer
Until I lose my soul and lie
Blind to the beauty of the earth,
Deaf though a shouting wind goes by,
Dumb in a storm of mirth;

Until my heart is quenched at length
And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength
Careless if I am loved again.
- Sara Teasdale

LOVE!

Everything is settling down now. Financial aid is worked out so I will, in fact, be attending Columbia in the fall. I'll owe over $90k after it's all over, but I'm okay with that right now. Government jobs pay enough that I should be fine after loan payments. My only concern is how disillusioned I will become working for such agencies, seeing the ( Read more... )

Ghost, ghost I know you live within me
Feel as you fly
In thunderclouds above the city
Into one that I
Loved with all that was left within me
Until we tore in two
Now wings and rings and there's so many
Waiting here for you- Neutral Milk Hotel ( Read more... )

I just got my acceptance letter from BU.

I've officially been accepted by every graduate school I applied to.

::does happy dance::

"Don Quixote of La Mancha is the second most published book in the world, after the Bible."I woke up with a sore throat this morning and now it feels like my chest is thick, like another respiratory hell is trying to settle in. Don't tread on me ( Read more... )

Columbia has accepted me! My choice is now made.

Three out of four, and only because I haven't heard from the fourth yet(their application deadline was April 1). I'm quite pleased!

One problem I find with certain philosophical arguments is the lack of definition of what it means to "understand." I've been told that it's a much debated issue, but, not being much of a philosophy person, I don't know this and I don't know what if any progress has been made or what arguments have even been put forth. Does any one know where I can ( Read more... )

Random thoughts in bio ( Read more... )