getting the flu + 2 stressful terms + not enough sleep (apparently) = walking pneumonia
x (-stress from summer term/5 days of antibiotics) = hopefully healthy again

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May 2: more than 20-30,000 dead from Myanmar cyclone
May 5: volcano in Chile inactive for more than 9,000 years erupts
May 12: at least 10,000 dead in earthquake in China

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so i just took a RealAge quiz-thingie online, and i found out that my real age (29.1) and my actual age (29) are pretty much the same. nice to know ( Read more... )

...but for anyone else who went to Paris on the Platte all the time, you should get a kick out of this too.



every rose has its thorn, hahaha

also, i just read in my email that the U of O athletic director makes $500,000 a year. doesn't that strike you as just a little F***ed up, that the PROFESSORS make, on average, 10% of his salary ( Read more... )

hosting some pretty crappy thoughts this evening, i must say.

bah.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080229/ap_on_re_us/motel_hazardous_material

(ok, so it's not the same as the CSI episode, but it is in Vegas. and involves the same deadly poison. coincidence, she asked, tongue-in-cheek? i think not...)

psy·cho·pomp [sahy-koh-pomp]
-noun
a person who conducts spirits or souls to the other world, as Hermes or Charon.
[Origin: 1860-65; < Gk psȳchopompós conductor of souls.]

also, writing papers without cigarettes is no good at all. i think my brain might run on nicotine. but nevertheless, one down, two more to go.

somehow i've managed to let 3 papers sneak up on me this week ( Read more... )