I don't know if anyone reads this anymore, but a fellow Carl of mine, Joe Sjoberg, went missing in Madison, WI. Please help find him ( Read more... )

I came to the realization today that by proxy, I have essentially touched almost every student at Carleton ( Read more... )

The last time I played tetris during class on my calculator was AP Stats senior year in high school when we had like five different teachers, none of whom actually taught us anything ( Read more... )

I went to get my hair cut and the hair stylist was Bill Clinton. After cutting my hair, I noticed that hair cuts were $21 and I had exactly that so I started to worry about not being able to tip him. Only he didn't ask for money and instead started rocking out on his sax ( Read more... )

"Working on the bottom of the deep ocean wasn't impossible, it was only considered impossible, and that was the distinction Tommy had learned: Other people labeled things impossible not because they couldn't be done, but because no one was doing them. He had revisited all of the old assumptions, found many of them no longer valid, and saw ways ( Read more... )

-Hermann Broch ( Read more... )

I smell like fish. At least my hands do. And that's after washing them with soap and lemon juice multiple times. Yum. But splitting cod was really fun. First you have to rip off the head, which was actually my favorite part. You rip off the head because if you chopped it off, you'd lose some flesh. So then you split it and rip out the spine ( Read more... )

So I was cooling down from my run, just walking by the seaport on my way back to Mallory House, listening to some sweet tunes, when I come to the realization that someone is yelling at me from their car ( Read more... )

I'M GOING TO CALIFORNIA!!!!

And who's idea was it to watch SE7EN. Terrible movie. TERRIBLE.

But I'm going to be in California tomorrow!!!! Monterey! San Francisco! Bodega Bay!

Williams-Mystic is so SWEET.

Tomorrow I fly to the east coast for the first time in my life to spend the next three and a half months in Connecticut at Mystic Seaport. I'm really excited, though kind of not just because it hasn't sunk in I'm actually going ( Read more... )