as i sit in front of my computer listening to "parachutes" while nursing a minor hang-over i've come to the conclusion that this weekend was undoubtedly the most enjoyable weekend in my minor career at the university of oregon. nothing amazing or earth shattering happened but what separated this past weekend from others was the complete lack of ( Read more... )

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brian jannusch has just left the states in order to serve in OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM.

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it's probably not common knowledge but i started a journal the night before i went on my trip to sudan and kept it up until the day i got back and every once in a while i open it up and read about the thoughts, events and conversations of the experience i deemed worthy of documenting. sometimes i just pick it up and look at it and hold it and find ( Read more... )

it's not very often that a person comes across another individual whose perception of reality is so skewered, whose political and social beliefs are so OBVIOUSLY wrong, and whose ideas of past-times are so scary. however, i managed to come across a person who fits that description when i moved into the aforementioned bauer house and became ( Read more... )

last night, during the course of my 14 hour train ride extravaganza i met and conversed with two australians backpacking the western united states over winter break. during the course of this conversation i had two magical epiphany like moments of realization, the first was that i was once again reminded of how unbelievably powerful and ( Read more... )

i had to pull back to analyze what exactly i was looking at, directly ahead of me was a clear balloon like contraption dangling perfectly off my doorknob. it was dangling a good six inches off the doorknob and as i sat and stared in bitter confusion at the contraption i noticed there was a little bit of clear liquid burrowed in the tip of the ( Read more... )

an event transpired tonite that i can whole heartedly say will forever be ingrained in my memory when thinking about my "dorm life" experience. however, in order to fully understand the hallway event that transpired i have to establish the cast of characters who took part in this event. the star of the show is eric, my dorm building president. ( Read more... )

tonite i decided to introduce my aunt and mother to the one and only andre3000. i threw in the love below and skipped to "hey ya" whereupon my aunt and i feely and without a care in the world danced about the living room for the four minutes of the song. i don't think i'll soon forget this, in fact i think that nearly every time i listen to "the ( Read more... )