look in the mirror . . . i know there's more to me than this burned-out wrinkled-shirt-and-overcoat overacademic, but it's all so much more like a memory than a reality. i'm nothing more than the stereotype of a sleep-deprived library-dweller. 'just a faded negative of the image i used to be' (Bad Religion ( Read more... )

you've all seen the 'lj sitcom generator' script, i assume. however, i must say that sometimes my life actually is kind of a sitcom ( Read more... )

ps, in case i'm completely insane, can someone download the song mentioned in the last post and tell me if you hear ANYTHING like what i'm describing? specifically the 'backwards time' effect?

if anything's worth your seven dollars (or four for a used copy), it's this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3298961.stm

'Drunk' senator in assault claim
An Australian politician is considering his future after allegations he drunkenly assaulted a female senator.Andrew Bartlett, leader of Australia's opposition Democrats party, ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3295273.stm

Funeral rites 'may spread Ebola'Persuading people not to touch the dead may help stem the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, say experts ( Read more... )

on aim with raff this evening . . .

benberkeley: eh, she's a big ball of affection. benberkeley: i don't like big balls of affection ( Read more... )

life is kind of in pieces right now. not in a shattery way, just kind of a separatey drifty way where i can't see how things fit together at all. every piece is incomplete, and yet the combination of all the pieces no longer makes sense.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3248516.stm

"German television viewers have voted post-war Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as the greatest German of all time."of all the germans. of all the fucking possible germans ( Read more... )

i've just returned from my first 'don rag,' a formal oral evaluation in which all one's tutors sit around a table and discuss the students' performance among themselves in the third person, as though he weren't there. the student then has a chance to ask questions and respond to criticism (or, i suppose, praise ( Read more... )