Happy New Year, all! It's 2008, which means that after four years of "Class of 2008" sounding distant and meaningless, I actually have the end of college coming up. Yipes ( Read more... )

Because what better, really, to sum up my year than that sentence. This, since I have now turned in my last exam and am now finished with my third year of college, is my massive end-of-the-year post. This one, unlike last year, is unedited for LJ, because (sadly) it contains a lot less (read: no) sex. It does, however, contain somewhat self- ( Read more... )

I have this thing about making LJ posts when I'm upset about something...much like, to be honest, the way that I frequently have a thing about sharing my emotions when I'm upset. I always want to avoid posting, because I'm afraid it will sound self-pitying, especially, as in this case, when I was so incredibly much luckier than so many other ( Read more... )

Preceded by a couple of notes/thoughts. The Tech student government sent a thank-you letter to UVA with some really sweet comments in it. How do we thank you for the way your students instantly put aside our infamous rivalry to the point where the greatest measures of compassion from another institution have been from you?To the NOVA people... ( Read more... )

I kind of should have been liveblogging the VT Convocation, since I've been listening to it since about 10 minutes into it. President Bush is speaking now, just after Gov. Kaine, who got a little more preachy than was absolutely necessary. Bush is also getting a little preachy, but since I think Kaine managed to quote every single book of the ( Read more... )

I talked to Mom, to see if she'd heard anything from Anna's parents...she said Anna's mom had talked to Mary (Anna's brother's girlfriend, who goes to Tech) and gotten a fairly comprehensive report on what was actually going on down there.... Mary was in the hospital waiting room with her roommate, whose boyfriend had been shot several times, but ( Read more... )

duchessofpower, thanks for the post...we'd heard from all the woodson people, by way of fbook. I've heard from a couple of Anna's friends, too, which is good ( Read more... )