Resignation by Nikki GIovanni

I love you
because the Earth turns round the sun
because the North wind blows north
sometimes
because the Pope is Catholic
and most Rabbis Jewish
because winters flow into spring
and the air clears after a storm
because only my love for you
despite the charms of gravity
keeps me from falling off the Earth
into another dimension
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I'm fine. So far, everyone I know here at Tech is fine also. I was in class this morning at 9 when the second shootings started and was stuck in a classroom next to Norris (where the shootings happened) until 12:30. Everyone handled it very well and I'm very proud of this school and this community. I hope that tomorrow, with a little more ( Read more... )

I'm starting to feel like I wasted my time in college. here I am, about to graduate a year late as it is, and I just feel like I didn't get what I should have out of the experience. Maybe I should have joined more clubs or tried a sorority or had the nerve to take salsa lessons. I guess I feel like I didn't get out of my box very much, and I may ( Read more... )

I'm about to leave town for Thanksgiving break and I'd love to take a stack of great books with me. I'd prefer to get them from the library (free!) and they should be fiction, unless there is a really compelling non-fiction read. I appreciate trashy, romance-y books and also more serious books, just nothing too pretentious. Any ideas?

quiet thursday night here...and for once I'm glad! I was going to go out with
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"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines ( Read more... )

I'm sitting on the bridge on campus, killing time before three hours of mind-numbing internet searching at my job at the library. This week has been pretty good all in all, not too much work and we even managed to get in a movie last night (Strangers with Candy, which, by the way, manages to fit both Phillip Seymour Hoffman AND Stephen Colbert in ( Read more... )

someone stole my box spring. From the front of my house. and we've been moved into the new apartment for 6 hours and my cat is already missing. brilliant.

We're moving and it's just across town, but still. It's taking forever and there is so much stuff in this house it's unbelievable. Joe's mom is coming today, because Joe has a dr. appt and she wants to go. He has kidney problems, so he's getting a biopsy. Anyways, this adds a little to the stress, just because she's staying here overnight and ( Read more... )