Play it again, sam ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I said I would stop this journal upon graduation, and yet just updated it. Maybe these will be my last posts. Maybe I'll update throughout this final summer if things of substantial intrigue should come to pass. The suspense must be killing you.

My life has become insufferably cyclical. I forgot how summer brings with it both the lethargy of not having obligations as well as the depleting repetition of full-time work. I would say that I need a vacation from reality, but in truth, I'm much more anxious to simply change my reality this fall.

Recent news of a woman being brutally attacked by a chimpanzee has sparked  debate with my roommate over whether I could defend myself against an attacking chimpanzee or I, too, would end up mauled and handless.

In my "research" I came across two Google Answers threads entertaining the same question. Bruce Lee vs. A Chimp; who would win?. The ( Read more... )

Porta Bella (restaurant): applied, interviewed ( Read more... )

I need to get better at tying a tie. ugh.

Apart from a great short story by Hemingway, this semester is the end of something-- many things in fact. It marks the end of:
- my residence in Madison, and Wisconsin in general
- my undergraduate career
- my jobs at the herald, both as a writer and in the web department
- my job with DoIT Info Labs
- my heretofore lack of debt via student loans
- my ( Read more... )

My last post struck me as particularly Lewis Carrollian, which made me think that I should like to replace at least some of the following people: Dan Savage, Lewis Carroll, Tomioka Taeko, Earl Warren, Karen Walker.

If I want what I don't have
or what I can't have
why is it that I don't have what I want
when what I want is something that I could have.

everything is stupid and i hate it. the end. hah!

All my final paper topics for my senior year have somehow been about either sex or death. Sweet.
Now I just need to write one about sex and death. What class could that be for?