Allow me to clarify a few of my positions on a couple of points, if everyone doesn't mind. ^_ ( Read more... )

I recently read an article in the New York Magazine by Philip Weiss, entitled "The Affairs of Men: The Trouble with Sex and Marriage". The piece discusses impulses that drive seemingly happy married men to the arms of infidelity, either because of heightened sexual curiosity, voracity, or a taste for 20-something luscious waitresses with tatoos. I' ( Read more... )

 I have major apologies to give to all of you who think I've dropped off the face of the earth. To be honest, I haven't really had the urge to post anything in the past months/year or so.   The willingness to write about my life never really surfaced itself, not because there wasn't anything worth documenting.  I suppose I just needed some time to ( Read more... )

I HATE FINALS ( Read more... )

Yay, just finished doing a dietary analysis on myself for Nutrition class, which took FOREVER because of the dumb internet lag and the Java bits.  In all honesty, I really should've taken the class for pass/fail (it's just to fulfill a science credit). But it's a fun class and I'm learning quite a bit about how I should treat my body and watch what ( Read more... )

So Facebook came up with this really strange and somewhat elitist online strategy game between the Ivy Leagues. The gist is that your school is an army of sorts, and that you've got to conquer all the other Ivies, conquering each by inches, quads, and dorms.   I've gotten several invitations to join, and I will admit that I'm intrigued. However, ( Read more... )

Political Islamic Theory should crawl into a corner and die a slow, painful death ( Read more... )

So, when I pledged Sigma Chi Delta last year, we had a pretty cool Russian guy subletting one of our rooms.  He brought with him this amazingly fluffy, huge Russian cat named Zeke (pics of him as a kitten below) who is now one of the highlights of my life here.  Zeke is HUGE, but possesses an amazing sense of effortless grace I would give my left ( Read more... )

Travel takes a lot out of oneself.  The fatigue always catches me by surprise, and so I find myself slumping over in utter tiredness  when my little cranial neurons should be juggling Marxist economic theory ( Read more... )

I'm writing this in Doug's room in Providence.   I've just spent the last fifteen minutes or so cleaning it up - I got super bored from reading Marx's Capital ( Economic theory *gag*), and decided that the pile of random clothing due left of me ought to be taken care of before it decided to eat my leg (Ah!! Voracious boxers ( Read more... )