apparently i'm having a random journaling day.

note to self: long hot baths leave me feeling ill. that's why you never take them.

from the pages of my page-a-day encyclopedia britannica calendar circa 1995 (you don't have to say it, i know i'm a nerd)

the 18th-century german philosopher immanuel kant realized that what causes laughter is "the ( Read more... )

frick. this election thing is stressing me out. i just glanced at my friends' page to remind myself that i'm not the only one stressing over it. every time i've seen one of the other foreign teachers today, they've yelled out to me the status of the election so far. i kinda suck in that ( . )

leave it to me to make packing a philosophic quandry. geez. it's not the clothes that're hanging me up, or the basic daily living things. it's the extra stuff. it's the books, the cds, and the pictures.


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( wow, this made my brain hurt, but you know... in a good way )

so i'm just sittin here, listening to one of my new cds, and it's making me strangely pensive. it's the mel torme cd. that's with an accented e. i just don't know how to type accented letters:) anyway, you know mel if you grew up watching "night court," as i did. when i think of mel torme, i think of harry anderson and bull and roz and christine ( Read more... )

just a note to say, last night, i fell in love with nick hornby. utterly. all i read by him was a short story, with the unlikely name of "nipplejesus," but man alive, was that ever a great story. highly recommended, friends. very thought-provoking. i suppose i'll have to look into reading some of his novels now...

in other news, ( i'm feeling abstract and pointless )

have you ever heard of the ( five love languages? )

here's my deep thought for the day ( Read more... )

for some reason i feel like talking about gender issues right now. i never gave a thought to gender issues until last may, i took a class called "major women writers." i've always been kinda facinated by psychology and sociology, so in class, the first day, when we were given several articles about psychological and physical differences (maybe) ( Read more... )

ok. so here's what i've decided. the reason i still get dizzy when i'm walking around is either because i have some kind of ear thing, or i have a brain tumor. those seem like my logical options. and at least if it's a brain tumor i have, i won't have to keep trying to find a job:) i can just read, write, visit friends, and eat unhealthy food ( Read more... )