1. Why couldn't I decide I wanted to go to graduate school for something easy, like History, where all I would have to do is read a lot and write a bunch?

2. I've been thinking some more about Patti Smith's Just Kids, and about how during that time in our cultural history, "art" meant something different, and to be an "artist" created a separate ( Read more... )

* I keep having this dream where I'm back in high school, and I don't know anyone, and I keep skipping math class, and there's a test.  I fucking hate anxiety dreams, but I especially hate ones that put me back in high school.

* I'm not even going to link to it, but I today decided to unsubscribe from Photoshop Disasters forever.  This is what ( Read more... )

( from basric )

1. I'm really glad Chuck got their reverse-undress of Sarah out of the way by the second episode.  Perhaps they won't feel the need to continue to insult their female viewership for a few more eps.  You ever love a show so much that it pisses you off worse when it pisses you off?  Does that make any sense?

2. Speaking of Pissed Off: Do the passive- ( Read more... )

And everyone decides to write something interesting, fic exchange stories are posted, and a couple of birthdays almost slip by me.

Grrr. Of course, no one on my flist (almost! almost forgot you, ms_vague, for you transcend the flist) gives a damn about football, but my team lost this week and it was a heart breaker. Perhaps, if one is interested, one ( Read more... )

A new study is showing that loneliness is contagious, and this makes me wish sometimes I could keep my big mouth shut:

Using data from a large-scale study, they found lonely people tend to transmit their sad feelings to those around them, which eventually led to them being isolated from society.

"We detected an extraordinary pattern of ( Read more... )

Sorry about the meltdown on Friday. Life has twisted ways of reminding me that simply being a good person and trying my best does not protect me from its impersonal cruelty. Are things better? Not really, but at least I remembered that the point is to keep pushing forward and hoping. Eventually it'll all come together.

Other newsSomeone has ( Read more... )

Some days, I worry about the spammyness.

So my mom has little sense of humor. Not in a bad way. She, like most of my family, loves to laugh, but she sometimes doesn't grasp the funny in front of her. I sent her the link, first posted in annlarimer's journal: http://doihavepigflu.com/. Her response? "Are you sick?" No, Mom, though I have nothing but ( Read more... )