Benazir Bhutto has twenty dummy corporations in the Caribbean to hoard all of the money she laundered out of Pakistan when she was prime minister, and now she is a martyr. It just eludes me. That's when I think there really might be a conspiracy of the elite to ignore corruption.

I needed to be reminded of something. I spent so much time worrying that I'm growing apart from friends at home, so preoccupied with the fact that my aunts and uncles will never really be able to understand what I'm doing at college this semester, that I've created some sort of unnecessary gulf. Because of what a few friends have said about me ( Read more... )

took the EPIIC final today. Sat in a dark cramped room in the back of the IGL by myself for five hours. Heather kept coming in and giving me the test page by page as she wrote it. I felt tired. When I finished I crept downstairs and searched for everybody but the building was eerily deserted and I walked around in my socks. I wandered into ( Read more... )

roommate: I'm going to start keeping a journal again.
me: what language will it be in?
roommate: a spatter.

me: christmas, christmas time is here...
roommate: okay, Courtney, I've had enough of that song. I just can't take it anymore.

there was a little bit of drama just now when my stepmom thought I'd been hacking into her myspace because someone changed her profile to a picture of me. I said, I couldn't believe she even had a myspace. To which she responded, "at least no one touched my facebook ( Read more... )

I went to the airport yesterday to get my yellow fever shot. The nurse was a small Nigerian man who gave me his opinion on coca farmers, except he kept using the needle he was about to inject me with to make gestures as he was speaking, which made me, needless to say, nervous ( Read more... )

I like things how I like them. I like visceral pleasures. I like things to be aesthetically pleasing. I like ambiance and mood lighting and incense and tea, and it baffles me that people can say “whatever” and not strive for perfect moments. I like buying lots of things and then putting them all away. I love unpacking as soon as I check into a ( Read more... )

(calling home)
me: hi.
dad: well, I'm a little tired.
me: why?
dad: I spent the night on a US Navy ship.
me: why?
dad: I thought it would be good for Shay.

procrastination11/19: 3-5 page research proposal ( Read more... )

"I was personally responsible for the economic resurgence of Haiti. Hold your applause. The meeting beforehand was about fifty white guys who didn't know a thing about Haiti, and I was in the minority because we were only about 40% jewish. I raised a point about poverty, and the next day in the New York Times I read I was leading the ( Read more... )