Sorry about my dearth of posting here; there really hasn't been much to talk about lately, so I haven't been particularly motivated to write anything here or comments on other's entries (I'll try to get on that soon).

Last weekend I finally began to clean out my room. If you ever saw it you'd know it wasn't all that messy to begin with (i.e. ( Read more... )

There's not much to talk about this week, except:

• Last weekend I bought a few more books: The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby (I've actually been meaning to get the book on the same subject from the 60s by Richard Hofstaedter [sp?], but I couldn't find it), Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer (I had this book for one of my classes ( Read more... )

I already have -- from Catholicism to agnosticism (which is not really a religion but more of a belief system, but it's still a "conversion" of sorts).

( Boring personal story behind the cut )

The more I think about this question, I realize this has happened quite a bit, though mostly when I was really young, and it was nothing of any importance anyway:
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Not long at all.  Maybe if I bought some survival guides or just borrowed the ones my dad probably has stowed away somewhere in the basement at home, but even though I can handle the cold pretty well and I'm probably underestimating my abilities, I don't think I'd survive for any more than a couple of weeks.

This reminds me of when I did Cub ( Read more... )