Its strange to me that I'm ending up on the West coast for so long. Don't get me wrong, it has so much stuff thats working out for me, but something seems like its missing sometimes. To be honest, its when I talk to the few Chicago friends I have left, they say something, I google map it and I get mesmerized by how huge the city is ( Read more... )

I don't post much anymore ( Read more... )

I realized I haven't written in my personal, physical journal in almost a year. I think its because I've been busy, but I might just be wasting too much time crawling on the internet. That alls coming to a close anyway ( Read more... )

I can't really sleep. My mind is racing and I'm thinking about how I still need to find something for next quarter, how I haven't finished this paper that was due Wednesday, what could be in the John Foster book on ecology, what I want to do with my studies, what I'd write on my self and faculty evals. All this stuff keeps going on in my brain. ( Read more... )

I'm coming back to Chicago tomorrow.

Olympia in the news again: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/07/5090/

Every time I get off the bus at the transit station down town, I walk maybe thirty feet into the park where the smokers sit waiting for their bus and this driving marching band music is playing out of hidden speakers, I think to myself "am I in Back to the Future II ( Read more... )

I finished my paper yesterday morning. I read over the first few pages and last ones separately while I was writing, but I don't think I actually read the whole thing. Oh well. I got it done. I forgot I was supposed to write an afterward, which I've never done before. I wrote a shitty thing about how understanding the rise of the nation-state, we ( Read more... )

I've been working on this paper since Friday. I broke down the whole quarter with Christopher, and I felt okay about it. Saturday I went through everything we've read and pulled quotes, made sure I knew what was being said. Sunday I couldn't wrap my head around a decent thesis, but I threw together an outline anyway. I took the day off of work ( Read more... )

I realized today I'm actually more afraid of Colbert than I am Obama or Romney or any of the other crazy imperialists that are probably going to finally sink this civilization. At least I know what they're going to do...