1.  i am planning on changing my major to journalism ( Read more... )

i am now officially a librarian for the sci-fi society!  this basically means that i can read whenever i want for however long i want.  work?  what's that?  that never happens...  psshhh.  anyway, this is exciting, and even though it means that i will never get work done again, it is also really cool!  i have also definitely made friends there, or ( Read more... )

here are my thoughts about secrets, and how to keep them.

1. secrets are very difficult to keep. and i mean really keep, not tell-one-person-and-one-person-only keep. that doesn't count. once you have told one person, you have opened the door to telling more people. you have also given that one person the ability to tell one person. that ( Read more... )

the thing about procrastination is that it comes in waves. last week i was not really procrastinating on anything at all. this week i am a MACHINE. a machine that never gets anything done. i skip class, i don't do work, i find things to distract me ( Read more... )

here i am, 2:15am, sitting in front of my computer having NOT finished the work i need to do. all sensible considerations are telling me to do it, and do it NOW. actually, they're telling me i should have done them hours, or even days ago. it's not even that much work, and i've done some of it already. i have to write a lab report. i have ot ( Read more... )

I’ve never taken Valentine’s Day all that seriously, but I know that many people do. I like the premise; a day to show your love openly, without embarrassment. Love is a very important thing, and it can also be difficult to express. Having a day set aside specifically for love seems like a beautiful idea. Also, the more chocolate I get out of ( Read more... )

i love cooking. i really, really love cooking. i don't mean follow-the-recipe, cook-by-the-book cooking, i mean improvisation and spontaneity. i mean the kind of cooking where i see a recipe, discard half the ingredients, add a bunch of my own, change the heat, change the spices, add tamari, and make it vegetarian. i use recipes as framework. ( Read more... )

I had a bout of Bard nostalgia last night. i am very good at moving myself on, adapting to new places and people, making friends, etc. but when i miss something, i miss it HARD. if i miss someone it feels like some important internal organ is being tugged, physically. i either don't really miss people at all, or i align towards them like iron ( Read more... )

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Okay, here we go Tammy. (She told me to call her that when I met her in… seventh grade? Maybe eighth ( Read more... )