A certain cosmic equilibrium has occurred far too close to home in the past few days. For one, a really good friend has found out she is pregnant. I don't know how to feel about, though I do know that out of everyone I know up here, she is best equipped to be a mom and actually has a supportive boyfriend (seeing as how they've only been dating a ( Read more... )

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School starts up again Monday, and all I can think is, will I finally have my direction when this is over? Will I have figured out, for good and all, what I want to do with my life ( Read more... )

Lately I've been wondering about matters of collective consciousness in society; those lines of reasoning that come along naturally and infect people like a plague, much like religion does. Howard Bloom, in his book The Lucifer Principle, calls this rolling-stone spread of thought a "meme," though when he refers to it most is in the context of ( Read more... )

So, the job's going excellently well. It was a Gorram lot to take in in one week, but I'm getting the hang of it in practice. Third shift starts friday night, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax to learn. My eyes have started twitching, which I'm hoping indicates that my brain has started kicking into gear again with the amount of hands-on ( Read more... )

I got me a full time job. Which calls for some celebration. Extensive, in fact.

Like, well, for starters, I filled my fridge with food.

And then, I stopped by the antique store and got a book that I've been eyeing for some months now. It's called Sea and Land, and from what I gathered it was written around 1890 (the publication/author page has ( Read more... )

Well, I've finally up, gone, and done it. I'm registered for classes in my English program. Grad school is a mere two or so months away, and for the first time ever I'm freakin' ECSTATIC about it. I guess events required their eventual fruition to get me to actually make up the mind I supposedly made on them so many months ago. If that makes any ( Read more... )

Only on neutral ground, such as Iceland.

FACT.

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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott FitzgeraldTo Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( Read more... )

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