I used to not be so into koalas but these past couple of days I love them. Google image search led me to this gem: i have loved the koala for as long as i can remember I think the basket of beanie babies and cats is my favorite. Maybe check out Carla's John Ritter page while you're there too.

Basically my goal for this weekend is to maybe do some reading and to finally watch Doogal.


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I'm spending a large chunk of my time reading now and it makes me wonder. I read and read and hope I acquire knowledge and that it does me some type of good, and more importantly enables me to do something to make some kind of bigger impact. And it's all really vague and I seem to have a problem of not being able to pinpoint facts or completely ( Read more... )

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I made a stop at seven-eleven tonight and the clerk, Manny, said hey, gorgeous when I walked in. Is that legal? Anyway, I know it's stupid, but I think some of my most peaceful moments are when I'm drinking slurpees and just thinking about the things I happen to be thinking about. Tonight it's academia, the moon, a stranger's past, and the unmarked

I just got the cutest email from my mom:

Hi, the funniest thing happened tonight ( Read more... )

There's this house on a street adjacent to mine that I often look at. It's architecturally interesting, with an overground tunnel connecting the two halves of it. When I work early, I often see a young, handsome man leaning over his young, pretty wife, who is sitting at what I assume is the kitchen table. They look engrossed, they look like a J. ( Read more... )

My parents called me the other day. They had just had dinner with the parents of my best friend in middle school ( Read more... )

Today feels nice.

I work in a couple of hours, but this morning I went to the beach for the first time in a few weeks. It was really crowded, but still peaceful with just me, Kanda, The Road to Wellville, and a tangelo on my big pink beach blanket. I went to the Starbucks downtown because I don't like the one on the circle and the streets were ( Read more... )

I spend so much time thinking about things that happened so long ago (but also recent events) that made me feel embarrassed. The time I accidentally made a racist comment maybe in kindergarten and my dad and I had a talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. and how I need to be open-minded. When I was six, we were at Empress Gardens and I put some duck ( Read more... )