Today I bought food. Less than 20 bucks for ( Read more... )

Christmas in Ohio was not too bad (I got some sweaters, yay!) except for parts of Christmas Day itself, like when I was at the adult table and put my bread on the wrong plate and then the cranberry sauce on the wrong plate and then spilled cassarole (twice!). But mostly, not bad. Saw lots and lots of movies, at theatre and on tv. Now I am in ( Read more... )

Oh em gee finals. I was honestly working on studying for my history exam, and I have 17 IDs written out, and I was working on the first essay until I got to this ( Read more... )

The fellow on NPR was describing the newly unveiled presidential coins-- "John Adams looks kind of like Mozart, Thomas Jefferson like David Cassidy, and James Madison looks like a middle-aged high school teacher trying to impress his students-- bald, with a ponytail ( Read more... )

So I talked to Mink about possible paper topics.

( Paper ideas for The American Regime )

I am eating chips and sitting around and Ximena is doing Italian and Zoe is reading my Puritan paper. Loveliness ( Read more... )

Two is kind of like five. Kind of?

I hope my Explo application got in on time. I am proud of the mini-course ideas I finally drafted (with a lot of help and inspiration and a little acceptable stealing, merci boucoup). The program includes "mini-courses" with 6 one-hour meetings, so the app makes you propose two. ( Mine: Harry Potter and the Founding Fathers. If you are surprised, you need Help. )

I am so cold. Ximena is kind of flopped over me which is warmish but she will leave and then I will have to go outside and I will FREEZE. It will KILL ME DEAD ( Read more... )

For anyone interested: kikithepirate's Political Friending meme.

( Enlightenment ideals. In short, I like reason, order, harmony, liberty, and progress, and I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't. )

I was trying to make a birthday list and then I realized, what I want are things that are on my Amazon wishlist, basically. And the Adams-Jefferson letters. And I'd like a flag for my room (like this one. yes?) but like, fuck that, I'll just buy one myself, because I don't really want to wait a month. Kind of like 1776. Need it nowLast night ( Read more... )