* Finish spring term
* Study astronomy (see above)
* Read 1-2 well-selling commercial fiction pieces a week
* Use wikipedia to learn about the authors of said pieces, similar authors and similar pieces
* Complete 29 credits over the summer
* Study physics (see above)
* Find bitchin' internship for fall/winter/spring (Marvel? If Marvel then read lots of ( Read more... )

 My life has changed a lot. And not at all. I think the biggest change is that I've finally found something I like and want to learn about in uni. I've been so dispassionate about school for the last three years. Switching to UO was rough, It still sometimes hurts. I was always threatened with U of O as "the place I'd end up if I failed school."  I ( Read more... )

Missed Surprise Me Mr. Davis and Camera Obscura and destroyed another relationship. So it goes.

The Advocate: Your not-yet-released music video for "Backstabber" was cast almost entirely with transgender people. Ke$ha: "I am a huge fan of the transgender community. I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having ( Read more... )

Fuck, empathy is so awkward. Is it selfish to feel awful because someone you like feels awful about something that affects you in no way?

Dear "online news magazines",

If you're going to make all of your content available only in obnoxious horizontal slideshows, please for the love of God have some kind of integrated slideshow player. DO NOT make me refresh the page 43 times to see "the funniest oddest trail cam images." Because I'm not going to do it. Nor am I going to do it to find ( Read more... )

Wandered through the ("ALL-NEW") young adult section in Borders today. Good news is, it's three shelves + the huge graphic novel section, instead of just one shelf. Bad news, one of those shelves is entirely devoted to Twilight and its clones and rip-offs ( Read more... )

( Sickeningly saccharine bullshit that I want on record )

2009. What a weird, wasted year. What an empty year. I spent 3/4ths of this year wasting my time, doing nothing and going nowhere. And since December 27th, 2008 I have come full circle. I am exactly where I was last year ( Read more... )

Hoo, boy. AND THE FUN BEGINS.

On another note, 48 hours of work this week, plus moving, plus family visitors? BRING. IT. ON.