Just woke up from a restless sleep and dreams of, among other things, accidentally going to the wrong day's classes (i.e., trying to attend Tuesday's classes on Monday), being snubbed by my new friends, robin_d_laws stealing my stereo receiver while I was trying to cover a lawnmower with a tarp to protect it from rain, and still not having finished my History ( Read more... )

Sometimes having reflexes - unthinking responses - are a bad thing.

For example, when you are running a bath so that you can relax and get some reading done, and you have a drink on the side of the tub along with the book that you want to read, and you've pulled the shower curtain out of the way, and you turn the water on and then, without ( Read more... )

+ I successfully argued myself into an 11/10 on the Poetry quiz from Tuesday. (I honestly didn't mean to. I just wanted to know why "the brown enormous odor he lived by" wasn't synechdoche ( Read more... )

It probably does not bode well
that the predominant feeling
that I get from my classmates
is that they would prefer
that I not be
there.

The power is out along College Ave. and all through Brick City. It's strange not seeing the streetlights, or any house lights ( Read more... )

Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles branch in Richmond - I don't know about the others - is closed on Mondays.

Because nobody could ever want to get a driver's license on Monday ( Read more... )

I was going to whine here about how the dining hall just makes me lonely, because I see all this social activity and I'm not part of it. I had a great metaphor that involved lenses ( Read more... )

...it's striking how many things I don't post here simply because I don't feel like getting grief for saying them.

("Post anyway, it's your journal" doesn't help. It's hard to feel entitled to post what you want when your readers feel entitled to lay into you for it.)

1. I have Internet access. $13.95 a month, no contract, and I can cancel anytime in the first month and recoup the $13.95 (or just wait until September 20 and let the account lapse, since it won't re-bill me).
2. I now have a bed that won't be just like sleeping on the bare floor. (Inflatable mattresses are great - for people who weigh about a hundred ( Read more... )

I keep thinking let's go out and do something!

And then I remember, oh yeah, the exhaust pipes and muffler fell off my car yesterday.