Holy crap! It's so random that I happened to look at The New York Times book review just now, as it's something I've only read a handful of times before, but what did I find ( Read more... )

When I set my weight loss goal of thirty pounds, I thought I'd reach it by October, no later than November. I mean, thirty pounds is a short-term goal, and I still have a lot of work to do after that.

Well, anyway, I'm getting there. But now I'm hoping I'm there before February.



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I have no interest in American football, but I will have to buy Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre DameBased on its subject matter, I am fairly certain that my awesome nonfiction writing professor at Washington University, Scott Eden, wrote it. If it is his, I'm very happy for him. If it's not, it's no big loss. Hopefully I can find it ( Read more... )

I've had this really horrible, anxious feeling in my stomach all morning. It's not all that different from the way one feels before the onset of a panic attack. Why ( Read more... )

All of my non-friended posts are starting to turn political. Sorry about that but I can't pass up the opportunity to post this link. A week ago, Bush's lead was roughly a hundred votes. Of course I realize this also shows just how quickly things can change ( Read more... )

A lot has happened in the past couple of months, and I haven't been good about documenting it. I don't want to bore anyone with a 50 page update, so I'm just going to post some pictures to give you an idea of what I've been doing in the past month and a half.

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I hate my university's parking and transportation services ( Read more... )