[Driving back from the Jersey shore, playing with the XM radio in the family's new car ( Read more... )

I have to say this and I don't think anyone reads this stupid thing anymore, so I'm just going to say it here: I love being seen around campus with him. It's not often a girl like me-kinda chubby, supremely nerdy-is the envy of other girls. The last time I definitely remember it happening was the 9th grade, when I was dating Anthony, who several ( Read more... )

Last week I read this aloud in my craft class, as an example of a sentence I love:

...and Lucien finally dies, rather a while after he's quit shuddering like a clubbed muskie and seemed to them to die, as he finally sheds his body's suit, Lucien finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, and is free, catapulted home over ( Read more... )

The first two seats I sit in have serious structural deficiencies and protruding nails. The chai tastes like water. The guy next to me steps on an enormous cockroach, its sectioned body striated and rich, and after a moment its functional front legs get up and drag its injured back half a good six or eight inches before another customer comes over ( Read more... )

"This is an important day. One-hundred years from now, your grandchildren are going to Google you and learn that you had a dry spell in college."

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"So is your roommate going home for Christmas? Where's she from ( Read more... )

You would not believe the night I am having. After being locked out of my apartment for close to an hour, after handing over $660 to a locksmith, just shy of a full month's rent (and the fact that I had to pay it in cash means my rent check for the month will surely bounce), after spending the past two hours on the brink of tears, the locksmith ( Read more... )

There are some people who I have communicated with so much and for so long exclusively through e-mail that when I meet them in person all I want them to do is scream and throw their arms around me in a hug. And when it actually happens that way, it's immensely gratifying ( Read more... )

One Art ( Read more... )