S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
    A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
    Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
    Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
    Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
    Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a ( Read more... )

Wow, we're short a Senator now.

I don't think there are words for what it's like to be in Chicago for this.  When I left class the streets were EMPTY.  They are NEVER empty in this part of the Metropolitan area at ANY time of day.  It's so bizarre.  And apparently, it seems like it's because the ENTIRE city is in Grant Park!  Except for me of course.  I was planning on going down ( Read more... )

Okay so the Election Night party is getting really confusing.  I'm very likely to skip my night class next Tuesday night and take the CTA downtown to Grant Park (hopefully I won't freeze, but as this is probably going to be the most important night in my life I don't want to miss it).  BUT I'm getting mixed messages on whether tickets are needed.  ( Read more... )

( Cut for Angst. And because I'm a coward. )

Just got back from seeing Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.  It was good but the book was better.  Michael Cera is not quite how I pictured Nick.  I think my sister and I were the only ones laughing at all the jokes in the movie.  I haven't yet figured out if that's because we're really immature or if we're the only ones that understood they were ( Read more... )

I was getting really tired of McCain saying "Senator Obama doesn't understand..."

I was even more annoyed that McCain never looked at Obama while he was speaking.  Like he's some little kid.  It was so disrespectful... and it came off as racist.  He's totally mastered that George Bush smirk.  You know the one.  The one that makes you want to slap

John McCain is blinking so much it's making my eyes water.

Did McCain really say there was no history of Sunni and Shiite violence?  I cracked up when Obama brought that up.

( August 26 )

So I've been pretty creeped out all day.  I woke up about 5:30 this morning to go the bathroom when there was this really lound BANG and the house shook.  Since I'm not a morning person by any means I can do a number of things without waking up, or at least, go right back to sleep.  So aside from nearly jumping off the potty in the middle of a pee ( Read more... )