so, despite my agnosticism with eastern philosophical tendencies, and my being bread by parents who distrust organized religion, every year i participate in Lent, mostly as an exercise in self-control ( Read more... )

I have going to do the friday five, but a) it's not friday anymore b) i didn't have answers for at least 40% of the questions. but, I do have a favorite poem, so I just thought I'd post it.

( Sylvia Plath's )

:sigh: one midterm, one poetry manuscript left in the first round of "demonstration of why you should never take 19 academic hours of class in one semester". oh, and i'm already way behind in reading for the second half. mm, yes. must catch up ( Read more... )

Yet another reason to move to Canada: the existence of Silver Jeans stores. I want one.

Told you it was superficial. I am such the (not a) teenage girl. Moving on now. (Operation: Stalling Religion Paper is full go.)

( I cheated here. This is really ages 12-14. )

everyone i know had a bad day, self included ( Read more... )

I feel like I haven't slept in three days. Probably because I basically haven't. But I'm nursing a bottle of water before I finally get to sleep (hopefully for 12 or more hours). And I have a shiny (pwetty!) new hairdo. And I'm watching a Sex and the City while I drink the water, which relaxes me, as if i need to relax. (sighs) I think that's ( Read more... )

tonight I went to hear Judy (Matthew's mama) Shepard speak. It was heart-breaking and inspiring and beautiful. She was adorable. And when she read the statement she read at the sentencing hearing? I cried. I don't cry. Maybe it was hormones, but I'm pretty sure it was just awful and emotional and and and. i want to find a transcript of her ( Read more... )

i. hate. the. snow. if i have to scrape my windshield one more time this winter, something drastic is gonna go down. the only thing i've got going for me is the possibility the university will close due to the weather for the first time in 25 years. if not, i HATE the snow. with the cold and the wet and the slippery and the cold ( Read more... )

tonight, a new boy, Brian, quizzed me ( Read more... )