at the same time on the same night in three utterly different places and unrelated circumstances, three of the people I love were suddenly threatened.  while some obscure, heavy piece of garbage was being kicked up by the wheels of another car and slamming against our windshield right in front of Lura, Ashleigh was tripping on a coat and falling to ( Read more... )

Are you searching for the perfect gift for someone, or are your dorm walls just plain and boring?  We have the solution!  Come see and bid on great photographs at
Where the Lens Ends
A show and charity auction of student photography!

March 1st through 6th
in Meyerhoff's Corrin Gallery
The bidding will be carried out in the style of a silent ( Read more... )

man, life these days is just awesome a lot of the time.

- I've led five or six tutoring sessions over the past couple days, and they've all gone awesomely and been with really bright, interested people.  it makes me feel good about myself and my major when I tutor people and it works out well =)
- I have three dead motherboards sitting on my bed ( Read more... )

1. my alarm clock reset itself in the night and didn't wake me up at 8:00 am like it was supposed to, so I got lots of sleep.
2. Bruce is the kind of awesome person who would never yell at me for being late to an unpaid internship.
3. every one of the five lights between I-95 and the beltway on route 43 was green for me (I'm pretty sure I calculated ( Read more... )

( p.s. if you actually give a shit about not having the plot of the fourth stupid book ruined, don't click this. even though your curiousity is probably killing you. )

does anyone else turn on the tvguide channel and wind up forgetting that they were looking for something to watch on a real channel?  twenty-six minutes on this channel, and counting.

okay, anyone actually want to hear about my real life?  let's take it back a two weeks for a five-minute rundown: I saw Pat Videau off to Hawaii and sang shanties with ( Read more... )

so I know I'm always that girl who gets so upset over a B+, but mica was proof that I have to work my ass off to earn it, and if I have to work that hard then that's my best and it's great. and ok, so I would have had another straight A semester without that mica course, but that B+ is the grade I'm most proud of right now.

obligatory update of sorts. that or I'm trying to avoid working. and/or I'm settling into feeling really unhappy again for the night and trying to paw my way out of that trap. making this a nightly ritual over the past week has really been awesome. I should solemnly swear to think happy thoughts and fly all peter pan style ( Read more... )

last night I dreamt I was on a travel basketball team like back in ninth grade, except the coach was warren linn [prof. at mica]; it was the last five minutes of the last game of the season and for the first time ever he acknowledged my presence on the team. he asked if I'd meant to play when I joined the team, and I replied nonsensically, so the ( Read more... )

today's a day of mourning. my good friend john the bug, who's been living in the bennett bathroom for at least this whole year, is not with us anymore. I am sad. also, I walked into the sheraton today with melissa and alex and saw michael myers and jason from friday the 13th. no kidding. how did we not hear about a horror film convention coming to ( Read more... )