Good lord, it's finally done ( Read more... )

It's funny how sometimes you don't know how drunk you are until your ass knocks the conditioner off that shelf in the shower stall for the first time in almost two years.... twice in a row.

:)

Namaste,
Jack-eye

Ahhh.... *relaxed sigh ( Read more... )

Ugh ( Read more... )

So tired ( Read more... )

As I was sitting on a toilet in the dowstairs bathroom of the Knight Library, my eyes happened to wander to that place near the floor where the divider is visible from both stalls, and to my great pleasure, I found that someone had scrawled, in big block letters:

"TAP FOOT 4 B J"

Mwahaha. I bet that's how horses ask for it, too.

"As confidence grew in many places that heredity was a fixed quantity at birth which determined a large range of human behaviors, eugenics societies began to be formed, some with the goal of pursuing scientific investigations of genetics in a ascholarly and scientific fashion, others to discuss and promote new policies and even legislation in ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon I had the closest thing to a thesis-related nervous breakdown that has yet transpired. After spending all morning and the majority of the afternoon meeting with students, I worried/pedaled my way home and arrived to find that Dave (also known as one of the most distracting creatures in the universe) was there. And that ( Read more... )

It has been warm lately, causing me to sleep with my sliding glass door partially open to welcome the night and all her freshness into my room. For the longest time I have been thinking that I hear the wind in the trees... a soft, rushing, white-noise breed of swishing sound that puts me immediately at ease. But tonight being an unusually still ( Read more... )

I got another free camera from Bob, an ex co-worker at Dotson's. It's an old minolta SLR, all manual, with a crappy lens and no strap: just what the doctor ordered! I have been all manner of hesitant to buy a new camera for my two years in Africa, given that it very well might suffer the fate of being lost, broken, or stolen, but at the same time ( Read more... )