Three weeks before I need to get a solid plan into the readmissions board about what I'm going to be doing if I come back to school in January, and I feel no closer to an answer now than I was at the beginning of the summer.

I thought, for about a week, that trying to come up with an IM would be a GREAT idea, then had my bubble burst in a series of ( Read more... )

Various updates from off the face of the map:

-          I’m in the middle of a series of essays by David Foster Wallace called “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men” (full review later, since this seems to be the season of book reviews). "The Depressed Person" has, so far, been on of my favorites, in a way that makes me both grimace and grin...

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(Written while taking a break from my second essay of the night.)

I'm still thinking about quotes, so it may get a little longer before the week's out. I have left some of these quotes un-cited to protect the guilty, shield the innocent, and not strain my generally shoddy memory.

With love,
a

P.S. You should send me some if you remember some good ones ( Read more... )

...but, it could have been so much worse. And there were a lot of weird, valuable memories and moments that came out of it.

Cons:
-lack of time/mental faculty/self control to sit down and do some of the academic work that I needed to
-end of an important relationship
-bad sleep cycles
-caffeine abuse (see above, add shaking and inane rambling)
-crying ( Read more... )

The Morning After ( Read more... )