i just wanted to post here about a new cool author that i really enjoy. my friend john (he is the lead tutor at the literacy center where i used to tutor [for a short time]) lent me a book, A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter. I read that and enjoyed it immensely, and now I'm reading a novel by Baxter, The Feast of Love. it's really cool, and I ( Read more... )

 feel a little tired, ive just been sleeping all day and slacking off.

a note: so far i have gotten A's in my two classes i've finished: philosophy of law, and sociology. secret to success? write essays on what the professors fucking rant about all the time. homosexual marriage and marxism.

that cheered me up a bit, although perhaps i am not doing so ( Read more... )

awhoooo finals are almost here! and than winter break! and than second semester! ahehehee.

ive been buying christmas presents, although now i am questioning whether these assholes i talk to deserve my love in the physical manifestation of a present. probably not!

i am writing a sociology paper on friendship, more specifically those that men have with ( Read more... )

ugh i should be reading dorian gray but i aint.

i just finished reading a question of bruno by aleksandar hemon. i highly suggest that people i like read this book. if they do not have time to read the whole book, i suggest they read the two specific stories entitled 'a coin' and 'blind jozef pronek & dead souls'.

last night i took my friend gregor ( Read more... )

dear livejournal,

its so fucking late and ive procrastinated so much. im attempting to study for my idiot globalization class. it is taught by a charming eritean professor, who is called yohannes.

story 1
once i saw yohannes riding his bike on campus. his bike was red and he was wearing a maroonish plaid shirt.

story 2
im too fucking tired for a story ( Read more... )

wow what a fun weekend!

VERONICA CAME AND VISITED ! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! i wish she would transfer to loyola, or at least UIC. sleepovers every fucking weekend. we hung out so hard.

oh lord i am fucking sleepy. i also feel bad for fooling around on the laptop all night while my roommate tried to sleep. he is however a deep sleeper. he has great r.e.m.

so i've been thinking about whether or not this college thing is right for me. i mean, college isn't right for everyone right? well, here are some possible majors i've been ( Read more... )

i was attempting to study for my philosophy of law mid-term, but whatever.

sometimes college is so stupid man. what a squalid waste of time. i love learning, but i feel this immense pressure to career-ize my studies. i don't even want to think about what i'll be doing everyday of my life until i die. such thoughts are counter to my ideas about life ( Read more... )

okay, ive gotten no farther on this joke essay. so i will write three stories instead.

Story 1

Once there was a young fox. The young fox enjoyed many of the more fun things in life. He loved fast cars, cigarettes, alchohol and fine vixens. His best friend was a young hyena. The hyena's family was poor, so the hyena worked hard at his studies and ( Read more... )

watching larry king, donald trump seems likeable for a capitalist.

trying to write this essay/mid-term for my sociology class. sociology is extremely interesting, although it makes me feel so light-headed sometimes.

currently im reading A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham, it's such a great book! i have so many books that i have to ( Read more... )