This morning I checked my grades for my first college semester only to discover that...(drumroll)....my GPA is exactly the same as it was in high school.  Okay, .03 different (higher, actually), but with that number of digits I don't think it really matters.  On the one hand, this is a good thing, because college classes are harder in many ways ( Read more... )

I know it's late but I finally came up with a new year's resolution: To never internally or expressly say, "This is the year! The one where everything finally goes right!" Because it never has been and I'm thinking it never will be.  That sounds depressing, but it really isn't.  I need to learn to settle for "good" and not get upset over not ( Read more... )

Six hours left in 2006.  My father, after ten minutes of screaming at my mother, has retreated to his office.  My mother is walking around with a strained expression, my sister is nowhere to be found, my best friend is sick, the friend who said he’d call hasn’t and the people I left messages for have yet to return them.  I owe the manager of my ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning to the sound of my cat throwing up next to my bed. Lovely ( Read more... )

Woke up ( Read more... )

A poem I love from a movie I love ( Read more... )

My hair has always been a mystery to me, but lately it's been downright irrational. One side has a lot more, uh, volume than the other. I'm not sure what to do about this, except to scrutinize my every behavior and obsess over how it might be affecting my hair. Do I habitually sleep on one side? Is my shampooing/conditioning biased? How about my ( Read more... )

Not sure how to start this, so I'm just going to pretend I've been doing it for ages. Today I read a Sufi story that sent shivers up my spine ( Read more... )