I was just informed by my RA that there were some skeevy-looking guys hanging out behind my apartment last night and this afternoon. Apparently, they were setting up some kind of little shelter/shack thing. RIGHT OUTSIDE MY LIVING ROOM WINDOW ( Read more... )

From The Boston Globe:

Like a lot of kids her age, Phoebe Prince was a swan, always beautiful and sometimes awkward.

Last fall, she moved from Ireland into western Massachusetts, a new town, a new high school, a new country, a new culture. She was 15, when all that matters is being liked and wearing the right clothes and just fitting in.

She was a ( Read more... )

I'm taking a Medieval Literature class (Reading the British Canon) this quarter, and we've just started getting into sonnets. Now, the sonnet has always been one of my favourite forms of poetry, and reading Wyatt has gotten the creative juices flowing again. So, I took a stab at writing one of my own again-- certainly no Petrarch (hell, it's not ( Read more... )

My thoughts on the new year-- This gets kinda long.

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A very merry Christmas to those who celebrate today. Here in our house, it is very much a secular holiday, but we all still enjoy the spirit of the season, the feeling of family and giving to others for the sheer pleasure of seeing them smile. Since I'm in college now, and have been fighting the Cold That Won't Quit, I didn't wake up my parents at ( Read more... )

(Edited to add formatting, so everything wasn't in one huge clump. Aaargh.)

So, I've been back at my parents' house for a week or so now-- I'm sorry, but I really can't call it "home" any more. There is a reason I moved out so thoroughly, and all I will say on that matter is it's so nice to feel safe in my own home again. But that's a whole other ( Read more... )

Yes, this is actually an item in World of Warcraft. Hope it gives someone else a giggle, too! :)


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So, I registered for classes for Winter Quarter today. There is no way that three months have gone by already, is there? I want those ten weeks back, dammit! No, scratch that, I don't-- I *really* don't want to take Schliech's chemistry lecture again. My friend Anna calls it "Sisyphean torture in the form of a lecture". Sounds about right ( Read more... )

When I was chatting with some of the folks at House K, it was made apparent to me that I might not have been as clear in my previous post as I thought. So, to clear that up ( Read more... )