i keep hearing grumblings of a KLMS reunion this month....hmm...how interesting that would be. i'm trying to think of who i want to see...i do know that if they didnt go to high school with me, i wont remember them except for a select few like missy and whatnot, so this may just be a high school reunion for me. if i go ( Read more... )

My how to be a historian class is stirring the academic in me. i want to drink coffee out of a travel mug at three in the morning in a dusty library surrounded by tomes both obtuse and far too specific. there will be others there, wrapped in similar librarian sweaters. birds of a feather. we read my professor's dissertation prospectus as an example ( Read more... )

last night there were two bright planets around the moon and jeremiah told me they were jupiter and saturn. the closer we got to charlottesville, the brighter they became. i thought they would fall out of the sky. i thought about that giant super storm on jupiter, the one that's bigger than the earth and never ends. what does a storm destroy on a ( Read more... )

today i helped a freshman figure out how to work the card- operated printer in the library. it left me feeling deliciously magnanimous ( Read more... )

i'm sitting in the office at work where i should be doing something productive like homework but instead i'm eating smothered chicken and wishing i could nap back here but the floor is covered in roadhouse muck ( Read more... )

so in my History 300 class, the teacher wanted us to go around and say what year we were and why we were history majors and what our career plans were. Most people said history was interesting and they wanted to teach. I said: "My name is Amanda Nelson, I'm a senior. After I graduate, I plan on being a wife and staying at home. I am a history major ( Read more... )

"-My parents say my future is just on the horizon ( Read more... )

i drank five glasses of water in a row. i now feel thoroughly bloated. i could survive a tsunami...i would float to the top of the wave and coast like a dead leaf ( Read more... )

i got jeremiah to watch mona lisa smile last night. he liked it. then he agreed to go see patrick stewart's shakespeare performance at william and mary with me. he was enthusiastic. i was relieved ( Read more... )

i need a place to rest my head...without your noose -foo fighters ( Read more... )