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Homely Summers
Finals are done. They were somewhat easy this year-- knock on wood. It seems unfair that professors give all these exams and then take forever to grade them. Don't they know the ungodly amount of time, tears, and desperate effort poured into those scantrons and blue books ( Read more... ) -
Me Mirroring You
Today, we read Lacan's "The Mirror Stage", and I realized that I've learned a lot in college, things that I'll want to remember. Like Atwood's invariant organizing principle, a life theme. Like McClure's entire, riveting view on the meaning of literature and how to look at it ( Read more... ) -
Spring Ballads
I've missed him so much these past days, and for the last two nights, I've been listening to his Christmas present. He recorded himself singing our favorite songs; I lay there with my eyes closed, imagining his arms around me and his soft voice in my ear. He makes me ache with such deep love and longing ( Read more... ) -
Spew!
So in the past few weeks, days, year: I've realized that I really center my whole being around Laurie. I'm not joking with the "he's my sunshine" analogy. You know how they say that Capricorns find their passion, and they pursue it with envious diligence? Well, I found him! He's gone to BJJ [Braz. Jujitsu] and OH GOD, I can't find ANYTHING to do. ( Read more... ) -
Back Into the Groove
I feel more flustered this year, because most of my courses have become more abstract, and I find myself almost missing the rigor and concise nature of, for example, organic chem. Whatever artsy side of me there is, it definitely needs a counter balance ( Read more... ) -
A Hate&Love Tango
I've been reading "You Are Not a Stranger Here" by Haslett, and it makes me feel awkward. It's a collection of short stories, and I have rather high expectations of short stories. I expect them to give me a feeling of epiphany mingled with terror or shock. I go through this collection with that expectation, and somehow it fills them by letting me ( Read more... ) -
The Nature of Bliss
Yesterday, I heard one of the most refreshing conversations. It went something like this.
G1: What shirt are you wearing?
G2: A blue one! I'm wearing an Abercrombie shirt! [smug]
G1: What's Abercrombie?
G2: YOU DON'T KNOW ABERCROMBIE?
G1: Oh! Is it that band? -
My left side reveals its alter ego...evil.
Over the past few weeks, my left eye has become inflamed, my left nostril swollen, and my left wisdom tooth throbby and sad. Ow ow ow. OW.
If the left side would like to abandon ship, please do so immediately.
