i had only just remembered that this contraption existed camping down in rao's with selena, claire, and em. i sort of flipped out for no reason about deleting everything here because i remember being a really emo strange individual in a past life. but that really isn't true. i'm pretty much still an accurate representation of myself. i've just been ( Read more... )

whoa hey. summer is awesome. i bike, hike, walk to nearby towns, swim (so cold!), run, sit and read, grass and sunshine daily. wonderful ( Read more... )

it is these critical moments where i always end up sabotaging myself ( Read more... )

...and everything has gotten cold and dead. Beautiful, in its own sterile way. But there is no heaviness in the air, like it is not even there. There is this amazing view but between me and it, there is no air, there is just this vacuum. So I don’t feel connected to it. I don’t feel connected to anything. I’m just a floater. How did I get this way ( Read more... )

Rolf swallowed the last remnant of MSG-filled pastry and contemplated the NMR spectra printout in front of him. The peaks seemed to coincide with his target chemical. His calculations checked out. He was ready to go to the press and break this discovery before Wilby, deliver it into the dim arms of the current scientific community and allow the ( Read more... )

duress! meurghh. lack. switch twitch. frothy beat poets hammering the rolled up yellow paperback. and i'll charge all i want when the batteries run out the hell to pay will be bit rate flat plot with in at red patent leather preposition. preposterous preposition prep school insane collared cu(n)t of the wild west. possibly pilfered parentheses. ( Read more... )

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Danielle Sussman raised her puffy curls from out of the depths of "The Franco-Prussian War: A Fanciful Retelling" and slammed the volume closed with stodgy disregard for the frail binding. She was searching unsuccessfully for a thesis topic for Thesis A: history. A double major in history and physics was proving to be a very bad idea, although, she ( Read more... )

immigration colloquium is fun but kind of exhausting. i was the only female who spoke, which was really sad. the conversation was dominated by a bunch of forward guys and the guest speakers, who were then like, "why aren't you women speaking?" ...because we aren't as good at interrupting each other as you, buddy ( Read more... )

other people's talents do not generally make me feel small. or completely bowled over by my own inability to think lucidly, or say what i mean. because i'm really only abominably terrible at three things: singing, playing instruments, and generally wording anything. that's it. i'm positive i could learn to do anything else with time. but no amount ( Read more... )