So, as any other student of a language, I often lament the ample and easily accessible foreign language music- well unless you are learning Spanish in which case you can stop reading. Last.fm is a pretty good place I will agree, but I am a creature of habit, and I like my customized Pandora radio stations. I have a few Putumayo French and Quebecois ( Read more... )

So, apparently I've reached the age when I can't stay up late and get up early. Three weeks ago I was sick for two weeks, then I got better thanks to a Z-pack. And for the past two weeks I've been getting day-long headaches. About three days out of five I get a headache that leaves me looking like a perpetual grimace at work and walking to class. ( Read more... )

Engagements, weddings, baby showers. If I have to pretend one more time how wonderfully cute a millionth baby outfit is, I'm going to go crazy. Does any woman really like baby showers? Thinking of marriage is scary really, these people in the first wave don't know what they're doing. Oh, the first wave has hit and all I can hear ring in my ears ( Read more... )

Being broke is always fun come the time when groceries run short, but I try my best to get inventive. I was talking with someone at school the other day about how there is a perceived notion that poor people eat bad food. And part of this statement is true- case in point all the crap you can buy at Wal-Mart like Doritos, or McD's $1 menu. My ( Read more... )

Well I have been searching all of my days ( Read more... )

Sam and I have been talking back an forth about what our ideal dog is. I like big dogs, mastiffs and other large breeds; he likes medium sized dogs, like the love of his life was his dog, Opi, who was a Cocker Spaniel. I'm not against Spaniels, I just like other dogs better. I was on Dogster.com not too long ago looking at Filas that needed ( Read more... )

En ce moment je lis un extrait de, "Psychanalyse des Contes de Fées" par Bruno Bettelheim, ie I'm reading this excerpt from this book for my French Lit class. It's about the "psychoanalysis" of fairy tales. Aside from the fact that it is mildly heavy to read, I'm enjoying it a lot. It makes me miss analyzing such things and how they relate to our ( Read more... )

Hurrah! Success is mine in this mini saga of house drama.

Fourth roommate, let's call her Jem as a pun on her name, moved in two weeks ago. That Wednesday Tom Cruise returned from her long hiatus working in Wyoming. The house had been relatively clean and quiet, then BAMB she and her stuff exploded on the scene. The following day we had a house ( Read more... )

Well, something like two weeks went by and I didn't hear anything from my roommate who originally emailed me to say not paying cable was "not fair." What was weird is that the roommate who is here in our house, never said a word to me about the email though she got it. Let's call roommate who sent the email Tom Cruise (Plant Unicorn!), and the one ( Read more... )

What exactly qualifies as a "hostile" living environment?

Option A: When one never leaves valuable belongings in accessible areas. Mistrust is rampant within the dwelling.
Option B: When the phrase small claims is used in reference to conflict resolution, as well as sublet ( Read more... )