When you are having any sort of discussion with another individual based on a difference of opinions, be it a debate or an argument, please remember to keep your temper and remain civil. Nothing has ever been accomplished by yelling "YOU ARE WRONG' repeatedly, even if the yelling was internal, and you were obscuring it with your superior vocabulary ( Read more... )

Well hello there my dear friends who don't use Livejournal anymore, and probably will never read this. I've got a story for you ( Read more... )

I never ever had a celebrity crush before. I never understood why people obsess over actors/singers/random famous people. Hell, half the time I pay so little attention, I find it hard to recall a celebrity's name no matter how famous they are ( Read more... )

Feeling terribly, terribly homesick. I need to go to Russia so much it hurts. Told mom. She said I won't feel that way anymore once I'm actually there, surrounded by misery and filth, but I know she wants to go as much as I do.
May be I can move back there or something. The idea is becoming more and more appealing lately.

I got a chance to sit in on the Chicago Tribune editor’s meeting. My life is 3/4 complete now ( Read more... )

This year I learned that living on my own fresh out of high school is tough.

Next year, I plan to learn how to get over it.

Brian Fogerson, I don’t know if you read this anymore, but you need to know that you are gorgeous. You were always a very wholesome, good-looking boy, but now I feel like I need to be writing sonnets proclaiming my eternal love to you. Or rather, proclaiming my eternal lust to your Adonis-like looks. May I paint you? You will become a masterpiece ( Read more... )

Just found out that there was a rant community about a rant community. After browsing a bit, I came to a conclusion that following the same logic there can be a rant community about that rant community that’s about a rant community. And then there could be a rant community about the rant community about the rant comminty, about... All together now ( Read more... )

I'm in Chicago. On my own. College starts in a week.

Holly shit.

So currently I’m at the point where I cringe at any mention of camp, kids, and especially towels. Somewhere along the way I forgot to check with my common sense if working sixty hours a week for most of the summer was really such a good idea ( Read more... )