To some psychiatric patients, life seems like TV

Oh, my dear schizophrenics, you and me both. Except for the caveat that I have a firmer grip on reality. But that's seriously, like, my number one fear, that my reality has been sculpted around me to deceive, and everyone else is in on it. I don't recall if I even considered that before seeing The ( Read more... )

So, this election seems to be more or less over. It was over ~15 minutes ago when Obama hit 220 electoral votes, unless there was the biggest surprise in all elections ever and somehow McCain won California and its 55 votes :-p Obama's at 247 at the mo, so, yeah

And re: the title, I wore this shirt today, to be relevant. Approximately nobody noticed ( Read more... )

Not happy Labor Day because SU doesn't give us Labor Day off :-p Which is cool, I enjoy my classes and am happy to go to them. In fact, Greek and Hebrew were both awesome today. In Greek we worked more on Romans with that tricky bastard Paul. And I took some (good-natured) crap from Dr Martin about my reluctance to pronounce guttural sounds in ( Read more... )

Political inactivist, more like. I can't decide whether I'm actually boycotting the Olympics, or just really disinterested in most of it. China pisses me off for a number of reasons, but really, even the Dalai Lama said that they deserve it, for whatever reason. The tae kwon do doesn't happen until..the 20th, I believe? Which is very sad, since I' ( Read more... )

I was thinking about George Carlin in the shower last night, as one does (I was actually thinking about his role in Dogma. I didn't want to spoil that though). And the next time I glance at Yahoo! News, within an hour or so later, he's dead. I must wield this power wisely

I was wondering whether I should use my I Hate Everyone icon again, but I'm ( Read more... )

(Continuing the author groupie theme)

Sooo, my family is back home and things are back to normal. I go back to work tomorrow. Urk. It was a very liberating long weekend, though.

I read more of Dawn Treader today, but I picked up Never Let Me Go at the library when I went this weekend, knowing nothing except that absolutely everyone on LT raves about ( Read more... )

( Oh, Hillary )