Yesterday, after my parents left in a blur with (almost) all of my earthly possessions, I exhaled and went out to dinner with victorycabbage , relevance , and clair on federal hill.  We tried to have Italian food, but they were all filled to capacity and had waiting lists even as it approached 9pm.  So we ended up at this pink resteraunt called "opa" which seemed to ( Read more... )

Three of my classes are now finished (finnish? xb?) and I'm sitting here, with 20 something papers left to grade tonight, and there's a book laying next to me and its crying my name. and i'm caving into its wiley ways ( Read more... )

You know its not going to go well when you go into your independent study advisor's office hours and say "Hi I wanted to talk with you about my independent study." and he says, "did you register for an independent study ( Read more... )

ok, i hate macs. I just accidentally deleated this post that i'd been writing for quite a while when I was trying to copy and past it and it the control key instead of the apple key. stupid apple key ( Read more... )

I can't write a real post today because, all my creativity is being poured into anaylsis of the mayors schedule or analysis of merit pay and value added assessments. but I can (and did) procrastinate by playing with jupiterempath 's meme.

so here's how it works:  On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how ( Read more... )

I just went back and read a bunch of my most recent entries and realized that anyone who doesn't see me regularly and is judging my state of being by my live-journal would think i'm completely depressed. So I just wanted to post and tell you all that I'm actually quite happy. I just have a habit of venting to this journal.

I have a crapload of work ( Read more... )

some questions that he should be prepared to hear from the Federal Hill Neighborhood Merchants include:

"Alcoholics vomiting in our planters and leaning on our glass windows and setting off alarm at all hours."

:)

Here I am at the CIT again. I'm about a 12th of the way through entering that data I need to enter, maybe a little less. I'm not used to data entry...that's why I went into the social sciences--we don't HAVE any data ( Read more... )

You know what I really needed today? On this day when I've finally almost (except for the 10 hours of volunteer work) caught up with all the work that I should have done last week when my grandfather died? On this day, when I finally packed up all the emotional shit that's been stuck to my shoes this week and convinced myself to channel it into ( Read more... )

Its 3am and I just got home from history's largest march on washington. More than 1,000,000 people, even if the AP wire won't admit it yet ( Read more... )