My Grandpa ordered a pizza for dinner. The toppings? Green olives and pineapple. It wasn't what I would call a very pleasing combination.

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The end of the month is almost here! This means I have roughly 48 hours (less at this point) to write and submit a 1,000 word Sword and Sorcery story to genrechallenge.

You may recall one of my "resolutions" was to read at least two books each month that weren't related to school.

So here is what I read in January:

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The story of ( Read more... )

As the semester comes to a close I can't help but look back on the events of the last few months. I was accepted into the STEP program at turned it down. I made the decision to apply to graduate school.

ENG 382: Business WritingI had hoped I would leave this class having learned something. What did I learn? Business is strange. It seems so ( Read more... )

This is my 500th entry in this journal. I have been planning for it for some time, in the hopes I might "do something special." I created this journal the summer after I graduated from high school and now that I am approaching the end of my four years at Oakland, it seems fitting that I once again move on ( Read more... )

I've been ravenously reading The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

I read the first, The Gunslinger in an afternoon. The second, The Drawing of the Three took me longer because class started up again and I was trying to draw it out as long as possible (I didn't have the third).

Now, I read The Gunslinger when I was a freshman in high school. I ( Read more... )

From my sister's early interest, to the various comments on my friends list, to Amanda's reading of the series, I've finally given in and read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer ( Read more... )

Every morning for the past several weeks I've been opening my livejournal client with the intention of writing out something very important to me. Every morning the program gets closed and put off until later ( Read more... )