January 2010
87 posts
new years resolution (because i will forget...
Learn to like mushrooms.
December 2009
83 posts
So…has tagging all of your friends and loved ones in gaudy “Merry Christmas” photos on Facebook replaced sending Christmas/holiday cards?
Observe:
(bottom says “Only for VIP”)
Hahaha. I love the Middle East and the mindset of the people there. Miss it.
Jesus in India →
Awesome.
E: Does this mean Nikhil could be a long-lost, benevolent, child-loving descendant of Jesus?
smallpaulsunflower12:
Evidence that suggests Jesus of Nazareth survived the crucifixion, travelled to India to “preach the gospel to the lost tribes of Israel,” and died a natural death of old age in Kashmir. There’s a film Jesus in India which argues that the time spent between Jesus’ early...
E, C: Did Dr. Mojoe go out of business?
More importantly: is Chester the Molester now on the prowl for a new career?
Lines for Winter
Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for once to lie down...
lezbollah
"Cousin (after receiving a package containing various items of yellow apparel for himself and his roommates from my aunt): Mom, we can't wear these out in public together...people will think we're all part of Hezbollah."
language-philes, you should appreciate →
This is so cool. You click on a variety of different languages and see how they influence the English pronunciation of a certain passage. It’s good to click on the same language and see how it varies just among geographic regions. Though the Parisian woman sounded Russian to me, and I don’t really think an Egyptian guy was talking…(his voice was too flat to be...
I, once again, have a fever. Unfortunately I can’t blame it on my “feverish love of Jesus” as I did last night. No one laughed—Mom got it, but shot me a death look in case it got Grandpa riled up. I hope to marry into a family with a better collective sense of humor than my own.
cloche de taco
Fantastic day/night!
Made the dark chocolate and peppermint coffee I got for Christmas (better than it sounds, you can barely taste the flavoring), then went to Jeni’s for the first time since Thanksgiving. A new guy that works there looks like a guy from Kenyon, though hopefully he has fewer STDs. Enjoyed the infinite jokes to be made about mauve, sat around Jeni’s for awhile and...
brief brief brief
Home has been crazy!
It still doesn’t feel like Christmas though (maybe because we are still polishing ornaments and our tree is bare? Festive.).
Anyway, I saw a few friends tonight and comparing college stories is just insane. I am so relieved Kenyon doesn’t have an influential Greek life. My friends are about to rush, and the prep required for rush season is just ridiculous. Good...
“Oh, fontree, oh fontree, of all the trees most lovely
Each day you bring to me...”
– Sayoko
I am choking on my mother tongue.
I’m going to get a gong to ring everytime S. is naked.
Gambier at almost four AM smells like Adderall, cigarettes, and general frenzy. I’m hoping to go to bed by five, wake up at noon, shower, and then let the exam festivities begin!
(SEPT SUR DIX!)
labor pains
WHAT’S UP FIVE PAGES. I BET YOU CAN’T WAIT TO HAVE FIVE MORE SIBLINGS. JUST CALL ME MOM.
ohio = grand piano →
I live in the note of A. This is weird.
le duh, e.
Uh, with good reason. You beat out Yishun Dong for the coveted MIT prize. I will pat you a lot on the back when I am home so don’t get too patted-out before then.
friendship-bells:
i’m basically a ua celebrity.
let's pause for an uplifting update
I have 3.5/10 pages done. The remaining 6.5 pages? Due Saturday morning.
Is it bad that I think Elf-vetica has the potential to be a somewhat classy holiday font? Like, a sans-serif with pointy elf ear things? Am I becoming a font lady?
These next few days are going to be a time vacuum. Like, I basically have no idea how time will stretch itself in order to encompass everything that needs to be done. I have never written a 10 page essay before (thanks to twisting...
S, in response to a picture of a baby platypus I showed her: "DO NOT put that on my wall."
“I’M SO HAPPY WITH NO REAL PERSON
(E: I said this. Oops.)”
– C. (via friendship-bells)
It really sucks to have to skim something I think I’d actually enjoy reading at another time (read: not 3:28 a.m.). Looove postcolonial studies. Also love how the vast majority of them write interestingly and not pretentiously. Just wish there wasn’t 75 pages of it tonight.
Maybe I’ll actually read it over winter break. Since I’ll have free time, and all (no sarcasm there....
disturbing
2% of the US’s marriages are the result of eharmony.
The only thing I’ve consumed today is Jeni’s.
Steph called and she is much worse off than I am. I feel horrible for her. Granted, I feel like hell but she’s exponentially worse. Poor thing.
I am not at all well off for finals. Particularly the 10 page English paper worth 30% of my grade. Zut.
dear body,
Why do you have a fever of 103.6 the week before finals?
Love, J
AWESOME NIGHT, CONT’D:
Came back. Practiced (focused practice!) madly for an hour. Got back to the dorms, changed, and went to ADs with L and met N there. Kind of slow (was lacking in someone) until N literally broke a plastic man in half, whence the dismemberment randomly continued until we left.
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I would love a windowseat. I have always wanted one. Is this getting out of hand?
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disempowered 09
The lights actually went out after flickering on and off for about half an hour beforehand.
I thankfully had my lantern ready….haha. Ran downstairs to find Abby, Matthew, and Simon. We ran to Peirce (before the food got cold, haha) and it was INSANE. Peirce was running on generators only, and everyone else on campus had the same idea so it was an absolute madhouse. In the semi-darkness, no...