E-mail I received today: Congratulations on being accepted into the ASU Ecuador Andes and the Amazon Field School Summer 2008 Study Abroad Program through Arizona State University.

yipee!!!!  I've been looking forward to this for almost a year now and its finally sinking in that its real.   in a few months I'll be kickin it old school in a hut in ( Read more... )

sid is dead ( Read more... )

sweet.

happy new years. 
In 2008 I resolute to gain weight, start smoking again, read less/watch tv more, drive myself further into debt, and get straight Cs.

two nights ago at work my tongue piercing fell out while i was taking an old couple's $200 order.  I was talking and picking out mats and the stud flew out of my mouth and onto the counter.   i didn't ( Read more... )

tonight my parents took me out to dinner.  afterwards they wanted to come back to my apartment to see my frog and i couldn't really say no....   so I said okay.   my piece was sitting in the middle of the coffee table....there's empty bottles (crown royal, tanqueray, etc) on my kitchen counter, and my dad annoyingly went into the crunk room which ( Read more... )

For Christmas I got a vacuum, 70 mini boxes of Product 19, a camera!!!!!!!!!!!, a really cool vest/dress thing, tea tree oil shampoo and conditioner, snowmen in a hat, some really gaudy flashy earrings, a super soft bathrobe, a box of different coffees from different countries, and some gift certificates to target and starbucks aaaand old navy.  ( Read more... )

The Dao is always nameless.
And even though a sapling might be small
No one can make it be his subject
If rulers could embody this principle
The myriad things would follow on their own.
Heaven and Earth would be in perfect accord
And rain sweet dew.

People, unable to deal with It on its own terms
Make adjustments;
And so you have the beginning of division ( Read more... )

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bryce left for north dakota today.  it's a bummer but he's only gone for a couple weeks and breaks are always good for any kind of relationship so maybe it's really not that big of a bummer ( Read more... )