You know that whole "bad luck comes in threes" thing? It's true. Except I can't figure out when the bad luck started. If it was last week, when Luke got hit by the cement truck, then I'm done. If it started with the rejection from Vassar and is some sort of three-day festival, then I still have one more to go ( Read more... )

There is a line from "What to Do" by OK Go that says "Mediocre people do exceptional things all the time." The fact is, there's something incredibly encouraging about that line, and I've latched to it for over two years now. I've lately been questioning its power to drive me, though. Certainly, mediocre people do exceptional things sometimes, ( Read more... )

I second Rachel's last post lyk whoa.

I just thought that motion was worthy of an entry of its own.

The only difference is that I didn't do anything last weekend either. Granted, I was in Denver, but the more material point is that I never hang out with anyone from school. Seriously, comment and tell me if you remember the last time we did ( Read more... )

So what are you kids up to ( Read more... )

So here I am, pulling an all-nighter, sipping a double-shot espresso, and working myself into a rage over genocide.

Betcha didn't know that the Rwandans are blaming the Congolese for their genocide, and using it as an excuse to sneak across the border and hide out in the jungle shooting at people. And go figure that the President of Rwanda is ( Read more... )

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The world lay
In the vast hands
Of the universe
Struggling and fighting,
Like a cornered butterfly.
The universe peered at it
With great curiosity,
Laid one soft finger
On its contorting back
And said;
You are so free
If only you knew it.-Hiawyn Oram, "Free World ( Read more... )

I am returned... and I'm tempted to sit and flush the toilet for hours. Oh God. North American bathrooms ( Read more... )

I had a whole lovely entry about the past week or so... trivial things... like how we wasted a good portion of Bio class talking about The Notebook (only in an all-girls school...) and about how I could turn a profit simply by attending the University of Arizona... but livejournal and Word joined forces against me and that entry is lost ( Read more... )

My sinus cavities are currently in a state of insurrection. It's vastly unpleasant ( Read more... )