*ahem* is this thing on?

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The syntactical nature of reality is really messing with my head these days. I've realized and re-realized that the world is made with words, and quite frankly, that's a little disconcerting (unless you need to manipulate reality, which is pretty tempting). Just the fact that everyone has to make their own symbolic connections with these words just ( Read more... )

I know... I KNOW... that people usually work really hard for what they have. And I know also that I am lucky in many regards..

But sometimes I'm so freaking envious, so jealous, so covetous..

I try to lose myself in fantasy to forget...

I need to do homework and too distracted. This doesn't bode well. I guess I need to talk to my profs tomorrow and let them know I may be making an emergency trip to Maryland.

Okay all you German folks.. hehe ( Read more... )

So which is better, Apocalypse Now or Apocalypse Now Redux? Any why?

So I finally, after much searching, found an old old friend from the Dallas, TX area. When we were kids, we were enemies at first... though I don't know exactly why... and then fantastically close best friends for several years. When my family moved from Texas to Ohio, I spent the next two/three years writing long letters to her, none of which I ( Read more... )

So my first class of the day is Sociology 101, and the instructor's special area of interest is social inequality. This is fine, it's about what I expected. The NEXT class of the day is Intro to Literature, and the focus there is late 19th, early 20th century British Imperialist literature (Heart of Darkness, Mrs. Dalloway, Jane Eyre, etc). So I ( Read more... )

Sometimes I ask, and the Universe listens ( Read more... )