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Poems. Or, The Art of Escaping Daily Pain
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whhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaa just slept for 12 hours and I am feeling like God gave me a new body overnight. It's 7 a.m. and I'm heading up to Washington, D.C. for a day of used book stores, outdoors farmers' markets, art museums, poetry craftings, and pretty much every other liberal thing I want to do that I feel like I haven't done ( Read more... ) -
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I am so sick and fucking tired of traffic on I-95. I'm just sick of it. -
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8 hours of sleep last night and an 8 hour workday? I can't remember the last time those two numbers were the same. I'm feeling bully today. -
This pisses me off NO END
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060329/ap_on_re_us/spring_break_at_wal_mart
I HAD THIS IDEA. I HAD THIS IDEA.God, I had this idea, and I even wrote a short story about it. The only difference is that I didn't try to apply what would work in a ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes It Helps To Be Lucky
When I finally logged in to cast my vote for which Cornell alumni I wanted to elect to the Board of Trustees, I discovered that we can vote for two candidates. The internal struggle between my "get more rich" desire and my "get better students" desire has been quieted for now, but I think the question about primacy still remains. If you want to ( Read more... ) -
Come On Now, Show Me The Money!
As an alumni of Cornell, I have a say in what alumnae are elected to Cornell's Board of Trustees (i.e. really rich people who make all the real decisions at Cornell). Out of the four candidates, I've narrowed it down to two people who in every respect seem qualified for the job. The only difference between the two is that one is emphasizing the ( Read more... ) -
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I was thinking the other day about the Secretary of the Treasury's signature on our money. John Snow only has to sign his John Hancock on a Johnjamin Franklin (sorry couldn't help it) once and then it can get copied over and over again, but what about back in the day with Alexander Hamilton and the late great Roger Taney (SecTreas in 1833-34 ( Read more... )