Is there a word for a feeling of dread as you get an exam back that you are sure you did poorly on and as you turn to the grade imagining an 84 or so at best and instead seeing 104 instead and the dread turns into a mix of confusion, happiness, and pride? Is there a word for a person who would find an 84 to be a terrible grade? Is there a word for ( Read more... )

So I just went down to throw out the trash and found in my garage a note on a spare piece of cardboard. The note was written in Spanish, and says basically "I stayed here tonight because my boyfriend and I had a fight and he's crazy when he's drunk. I wish I could get a warm little room but I don't have a job or money. I want to leave but where ( Read more... )

Quarter grades were posted today.

I got a Four-Oh, baby.

Now you all get to deal with smug for the next week or so, for which I am truly sorry.

I can't even remember a time where I had to wake up at six in the morning ( Read more... )

Our boy cat, Shinji, was killed yesterday. Probably a car hit him. He'll be missed a lot.


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As I write this, the Seattle Police are questioning our upstairs neighbor regarding the disappearance of a 22-year-old pregnant prostitute who was last seen going into his apartment. We may have even seen her, as all sorts of people come and go. Maybe she was the lady with no pants. Maybe she was the one laying on the sidewalk, screaming that ( Read more... )

So, one week into our new appointment. We signed the lease last Saturday, and started moving that day. Sunday we had our wonderful friends felipemcguire, luriddreamscape , fencermatt, poubeans (who helped us move despite meeting us like three times max!), 3pwood, dendacien, and Josie, who shall henceforth be known as the Woman With No LJ Name, helping us move all our stuff, including packing of the vast ( Read more... )

1 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days."

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

2 - Go to wikipedia. Hit "random."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band ( Read more... )

So, as I was helping lemurkitten move yesterday when I got a frantic phone call from my boy simpleton_prime that our boycat was oozing copious amounts of pus and blood from his neck. Turns out that he has been injured for probably close to a week, but since his fur is so damn thick we didn't notice until it abscessed and ruptured. Gross ( Read more... )

Y'know, usually I am just like most Americans about my spirituality. That is, I don't really think about it or do anything related to it, as life kind of intervenes. But then sometimes ( Read more... )