Nathan reminded me today about 43things.com. For those unaware, it's a site on which you make an account and then create a list of life goals, which you can come back later and either give up on or mark as accomplished ( Read more... )

A few days ago I was driving home and as I turned the corner near the park, I noticed what looked like a gawky long-necked gosling stretching up to pick at the greenery on a rosemary bush. When I slowed down to get a better look at it, I realized that it was actually a baby green heron, all beak and dorky fuzz every which way and bright green legs ( Read more... )

We have been in Caruthersville, Missouri, for three days and will leave tomorrow for Cape Girardeau. That is the part of the trip that I am most apprehensive about, because I have heard many things about Bonnie's father, and I don't think any of them have been positive ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I graduated ( Read more... )

I've just finished my last final. Ever. I'm done. And it was no match for my mad java skillz ( Read more... )

This weekend has been entirely devoted to the final essay for my senior seminar ( Read more... )

Sometimes it seems to me that good things only happen in groups -- like the phrase "when it rains it pours" that I mentioned recently, only in a positive sense. Maybe that's because once one thing good happens, though, my mood is such that I start thinking everything, no matter how small, is also good ( Read more... )

My favorite part of being at university (perhaps, possibly, besides the student discounts on things, the proximity of lots of friends, and the lack of real responsibility as far as careers and money are concerned) is picking classes. It's fascinating to look through the catalog and see how many interesting things there are to study, and the ( Read more... )

Yesterday kicked ass. I got back two papers and a midterm, all with very satisfying grades. The paper that I wrote for cyberpunk, which I was quite proud of, scored me an A-. The midterm, which was on reading hieroglyphs, was a B+, which was better than I was expecting. And the paper that I wrote on Naipaul for Louis, my favorite professor ever and ( Read more... )

I don't think I've mentioned this yet here other than in passing. Instead of making New Year's resolutions this year, I made a list of 101 things that I will hopefully accomplish within 1001 days -- the challenge started on the first and will end on September 29, 2011. My list is posted on the mission101_2009 community; you can look at the whole ( Read more... )