I want to learn about the connection between emotional reactions and physiological responses. Why do your lacrimal ducts secrete water when you're sad? Why do funny things cause reactions in your diaphragm and abdominal muscles? Why does intense fury boil within you to the point that you can feel it knotting in your mediastinum and raising your ( Read more... )

So yeah, I made that last entry friends only, because my friends are the only people that I trust with my flaws, hostility being the one most prevalent at the moment ( Read more... )

My mother, graduate of Harvard Law, smartest woman in my family:

(While reading the synopsis of My Personal Idaho"...starring Ken-oh Reeves ( Read more... )

I had a birthday. It was fun.

All is going swimmingly. Faith is scheduling me for the weeks I wanted, and I didn't miss the class that I thought I did (Chordate Evolutionary Biology) I'm such a nerd, it's hopeless. I'm updating from the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. It's beautiful. You're jealous, I assure you.

Last night was good. Caroline's party was a bunch of siliness, which I desperately need in my life. After Caroline's party, Jack, Sharon, and I got coffee at Roaster's and walked along the river. Which was really awesome until the river started to smell like ass. At which point we turned around and walked the other direction. I love nighttime. And ( Read more... )

This is Rachel. Rachel is pissed. Rant Rachel, rant ( Read more... )

Go to Wikipedia, look up your birth day (minus year), and chose 5 facts, 3 births and a death ( Read more... )

So, I sent in my deposit to Chicago. The day after I got back from Rochester, which was two days after I got into NYU. I liked Rochester well enough, but I think that I could get more of everything I liked about it at Chicago. NYU was really just my way of torturing myself. I knew I was never going there, I just wanted to get into a famous ( Read more... )

So the college thing is done on their part. I now have to pick, and it's less easy than I'd hoped. I'm pretty sure it's going to be Chicago, but I'm not sure that it was entirely my decision. I think I'd be happy and Rochester or Boston or NYU. I'd be happy at Chicago to, and it's the best school academically. Whatever, I'll think more about it ( Read more... )