This is the article I wrote for next year's Student Body Handbook, on screwing up at Reed. It doesn't say everything I wanted to say, because that would probably take up about 70 billion pages, but hopefully a few people will get something out of it, at least.

( Screwing Up At Reed )

GODDAMMIT I do NOT WANT to write my thesis but I have SO MUCH DAMN thesis to write and only 12 DAYS to write it because I am a DAMN TARD and did not work as hard as I should have over break and now I am SWAMPED WITH THESIS AND DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO and also in those 12 days I also have to NOT SCREW UP in my THREE OTHER EFFING CLASSES ( Read more... )

I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to get through this semester ( Read more... )

Being home is weird. As I come home less frequently and for shorter periods of time, I find it harder and harder to connect with some of my good friends here. I'm having a particularly hard time with one of my friends, because as I come home less frequently and for shorter periods of time, said friend tends to try to instantly dominate all my ( Read more... )

Rgh. I'm of an inclement disposition today ( Read more... )

Making travel arrangements is distressing, but it's better now that I've determined that I can just take a plane from Cork to Heathrow and back, and it's a bit cheaper and much less time-consuming/complicated than taking twelve ferries and eighteen trains and four weeks to get from Cork to Acton ( Read more... )

I am so, so, so incredibly angry and frustrated with school. At any given moment I feel on the verge of crying, exploding, or killing everyone in the work world (damn Freudian typos). If I didn't have class with the Amazing Nigel Nicholson four days a week I almost certainly would have done one of the latter two. In Greek History I go back and ( Read more... )

My extremely extravagant early Christmas present from the parents: A new 60 Gig iPod. IT'S BLACK. IT IS DARTH iPOD. IT IS A GOTHPOD. I have over 5,000 songs on it, plus my iPhoto library, and have backed up my hard drive, and I'm still using less than 30 Gigs. This is madness ( Read more... )

This has been a madly surreal week ( Read more... )

I can't sleep.

I haven't eaten in 11 hours, but I have no appetite whatsoever.

I feel completely drained.

I haven't done any of my work for tomorrow.

I FUCKING HATE FEELINGS.