"that's the reason you go to college: not to gain more money, but to make this place a better world."
- Samuel Mockbee

jillanthropic asked what my resolutions are. Here they are. I wrote this a while ago when i was feeling more loquacious. I don't feel like that now.

Principles of life for 2010:
I won't be tied to my laptop. I know that once I get on, it's very hard for me to get off, so no more of this coming home and turning on my laptop straight away. Instead, I'll buy a ( Read more... )

Kass' traditional end-of-semester backlog of work:
- in class final for my monuments and political power class
- jeu de role
- paper on Westminster Abbey
- French presentation on secularism in France- paper on Palais Garnier ( Read more... )

I was thinking about My Family and Other Animals again, which one of my profs lent me last semester. Basically it's an autobiographical account of a kid and his wacky family who just up and leave England one day for Corfu, Greece and live there for 4 years ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, I decided to go back to being vegetarian because I still do believe in animal rights. I've accepted the fact that yes, me being vegetarian isn't going to change the world in any way, but I can still stand for my beliefs that animals weren't put here just for us to use. (I'm still amazed at the astonishing number of people I ( Read more... )

Things I intend to do this summer ( Read more... )

I spent nearly ten hours working on my final project for my photo class, half of which was spent running around a cemetery in the rain taking photos of a small red hippo on Oscar Wilde's grave and sundry others, the other half spent editing said photos. I'll post the photos up when we're done with them ( Read more... )

My unofficial resolution was inspired by jillanthropic (I hope that was spelt right): to learn to be contendedly alone. I figured that's the state I'm going to end up in eventually, so I might as well learn how to accept and make the best of it than turn into a crabby old hag. Really, it also encapsulated a whole host of other things, which I won't go into for ( Read more... )

I need to slow down, stand still for a moment and centre myself before proceeding at a walk. The metaphorical me feels like it's been doing 2.4km at a sprint, and has developed a severe stitch. But heeding that stupid quote on perseverance on the wall of the sports com, I've continued running. But the six laps are over, and I need to walk it off, ( Read more... )

this entry is because of many things. because i was told that I haven't blogged in a while ( Read more... )