"We live as we dream- alone." - Joseph Conrad

I found this other day sitting in some folder in my inbox. I don't think I like as much as I did when I first wrote it.

A Game of Solitaire

Deep in the swirling blackness behind closed eyes lay those few threads that stand out in vivid Technicolor against the vast, gray fabric of time. Those strands ( Read more... )

"There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes."- Richard Buckminster Fuller

while driving back to school last week, i was reminded of an old writing assignment i had to do for a writing course i took years ago. so i did a little thinking while i drove and then experimented with syntax. because that's what ( Read more... )

i'm not quite sure that i like it...a lot of this lj stuff is still very new to me (re: i haven't a clue what i'm doing and i'm not computer literate enough to know any better)  so i think this looks kind of strange. it doesn't help that i'm such a creature of habits and suddenly making this look so different is so weird. i'm so tempted to just put ( Read more... )

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On Critical Thinking and Analysis

On the educational spectrum, science and English ostensibly reside on opposite extremities. On different termini, if you will. Yet, the importance of critical thinking and analysis prevails, it pervades the outer contrarieties and subsists as a necessary tool in both encampments. As I attempt to ( Read more... )

"We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives." - Christopher-Lehmann-Haupt

The most difficult aspect of writing, I find, is writing in the first person, writing about myself. I had to write an autobiography in high school...it may quite possibly be the worst thing I have every written. This was an assignment from freshman year of ( Read more... )

"Youth is wholly experimental." - Robert Louis Stevenson

Last year, Vanity Fair held an essay contest with the topic of "What's on the mind of America's youth?" So I tried it. I would have submitted my essay had those pesky things called midterms not interferred and prevented me from sending it in by deadline. However, with no English class or any ( Read more... )

If you comment on this post I’ll give you a letter and you have to list ten things that you love beginning with that letter. Then, post it in your journal and give out some letters of your own.

tracyj23 gave me B....

( B wasn't as a difficult a letter as I thought.... )

Santorum Lost!!!  (but Lieberman won...the one Dem I don't really like. He ran as an Independent since he lost to Lamont in the primary. He's voting with the Dems in the Senate, though.)

ETA: Kennedy, I believe, won in Massachusetts. Good.

ETA (one last time): Rumsfeld steps down thank goodness.

Ok, I lied. one more ETA (11/9): Allen finally concedes ( Read more... )

Red Shirt Thon orientation for Rules and Regs was tonight. Our committee (Red Flava of Thon) came up with a cheer that made me laugh. I'm not exactly 'gangsta,' so I sound ridiculous saying it, but I figured I share it anyhow. It's a variation on Jibbs' "Do Your Chain Hang Low." How this and a team name that plays off of Flava Flav is even vaguely ( Read more... )