I got my Boston bootleg today from toriamos.com, along with the box and stickers and all that shit. The box is nice, and I haven't listened to the boot yet, but the set list is amazing so I guess I'll just pop an ambien and groove out to that tonight. I just came home from the English Department Christmas party, where I definitely drank too much ( Read more... )

I know I haven't updated in a while, but there's nothing really worth mentioning going on in my life right now unfortunately. Same old bullshit. But I did want to share Alicia Keys and Bono covering Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush's "Don't Give Up." Alicia does well with it, but man does Bono stink up the place. I'm so tired of him. Blech.

Today was an emotionally draining day, as I attended Justine Salton's funeral. Justine, as you may know, was my literature adviser Raphael Allison's wife, who died very unexpectedly at the age of 33 on Friday afternoon. The funeral service was today and I took a personal day to attend. I spent the morning with Carole Ann which was nice, then met ( Read more... )

What you did to me made me ( Read more... )

In my writing class, part of a writing prompt was for students to write down their favorite lyric to their favorite song and write to it for a few minutes. I checked notebooks today and all ViVi Hwang wrote was ( Read more... )

...maybe it's a sign that things will get better. Here's hoping.

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I opened my eyes ( Read more... )

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Between my job I still kind of detest, all this Ian bullshit, and stressing about my manuscript, I'm nothing short of exhausted.

Things have got to change soon or I'm going to lose it.

WE NEED THE UFT ( Read more... )