My goal last night was to write a worthwhile article about the State of the Union for The Amusement, but I couldn't.

I'd wanted to write an article that was sort of an SOTU-night diary--Matt Taibbi-ish--in which I imagined a world in which our political heroes celebrate the SOTU like Hollywood stars celebrate the Oscars. It seemed like a feasible ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble lately maintaining my handwriting in my classes' notebooks. I think that if I didn't "have to" wake up in the morning, that I might sleep through the week and wake up on Thursday afternoon.
Twenty years old. 21 Next week. That's a hell of a good age to be.
-Mr. Robinson

Five years ago, I'd mock people who partied. Now, any day ( Read more... )

I'm skipping ENG 123 so that I can sit here and record random thoughts from yesterday, 8 November 2007.

1)  Mike DeWine came into Alexander House for lunch on Wednesday. He ordered the salmon salad and a glass of milk, even though milk isn't on the menu. Our host, Vicki, went to the UDF two blocks over and bought a gallon of milk for the former ( Read more... )

In terms of politics/current events, I am a mess of frustration and apathy.
As far as school goes, it's just about as bad.
Concerning my writing, I wish I had an office or something.
I feel like this is all one big jack-off, and I don't need anyone telling me that things are really ok, things are fine, "Look, you'll be graduated and out of here in a ( Read more... )

I pretty much spent the entire day outlining. It felt good to be moving on something.

But I was getting fucked over at work. Found out I have to work Saturday evening, which is great, on top of working Friday.

Ellie texted me right before class on Tuesday to tell me she was caught in traffic and wasn't going to make it. So I sat for a second and ( Read more... )

(Note: We did not eat ravioli for dinner last night. Just hummus and corn flakes.)

We did it!


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I'm going to look for the precise wording in the coming days*, but watching Charlie Rose interview Bush, I just heard our president say that "if judging whether or not our mission in Iraq is a success based on the amount of car-bombings and suicide-bombings over there, than those who are doing the bombings will have won [because we will have ( Read more... )

By my measure, this is the televised meltdown of the century.


Who knew it would be Geraldo Rivera.
(Grandma got me The No Spin Zone for Christmas when I was in 9th grade or something. Dad laughed and left the room to fill up his mug of coffee. Later when I was actually flipping through it, he told me to put it down. "That man," he said, "is a retard ( Read more... )

I'm having the kind of day that I needed to have yesterday, and by having it today, I'm having it at the expense of the classes that yesterday could have prepared me for. I didn't do a fucking thing yesterday--not even my laundry. Well, now my laundry's in the wash, and I'll be ok with my reading, but I'm still behind, because I found out I spent ( Read more... )

You want a State of the Union speech? Here's the state of the union, as delivered by Sen. Jim Webb.


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