i have one rant and one rave for you today. enjoy.
rant: i hate people who can’t parallel park intelligently. here’s the deal. when the sign indicates that you can’t park beyond a certain point (i.e. beyond the sign), you pull up AS CLOSE TO THE SIGN AS POSSIBLE so as to make room for other cars. you don’t fucking plant your Buick 8 feet from the sign and think, “ho hum, good thing i found a spot, now i’ll go vote Democratic and buy a new pair of Birkenstocks while i’m away from the commune.” no, asshole, you think about EFFICIENCY and the COMMON GOOD. i swear, every time i see one car taking up two spots, i want to slash the damn tires.
rave: ok, now that that’s settled, let’s talk about something more pleasant. D&D has the best damn soda i’ve tasted in years. they actually put the right amount of syrup in their fountain machine instead of trying to rip off the customer with some watered-down crap. have you tasted a real Coke? i mean, Coke is REALLY good when it’s good. and it’s good at D&D. and D&D is a half block from my apartment. there’s something to be thankful for.
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“midterm?” Northwestern — or perhaps Northwestern professors — don’t seem to grasp the literal meaning of the word. shouldn’t a midterm be in the middle of the term? and since there can be only one middle, shouldn’t there be only one midterm? yeah? then why is it that i have multiple midterms in many of the classes i take? ;)
anyhow, the SECOND Psych midterm is history. despite the fact that i studied
Random guy: “What’d you think?”
Tom: “Ah, not too bad. I didn’t even bother to make a cheat sheet.”
Random guy: “Hey, I fuckin shroomed last night!”
Tom: “Okay, you beat me.”
ah yes, it has been confirmed that Bill Walton is in fact a choad farmer.
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go ahead and call me an overly optimistic idiot after OSU destroys UI, but i’ve got an inkling… it’s 1:28pm, and the game starts in an hour. let’s go, boys.
DAMN IT.
fucking refs.
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it has occurred to me lately that some of my friends seem overly self-absorbed, or perhaps even selfish. this bothers me.
two snippets for today:
when i graduate from Northwestern and leave Evanston and college life behind, one thing i’ll miss is walking home at night. coming back from the Library, breathing the cold, crisp air — my mind works well then. i feel full and purposeful. sometimes, it even feels like this is the right place. i will miss that when i’m gone.
anna marie and i never gave each other gifts. in fact, our relationship was markedly non-materialistic, and i think this was in fact a good thing. one gift she did buy for me, though, was an umbrella she got in Taiwan. she bought it from a street vendor, picking a gray one because that’s my favorite color.
today, it was raining, and i took the umbrella as i left the apartment the back way toward D&D. i forgot about the heating pipe that stretches above the walkway, just above head-level, and the umbrella smashed against the pipe. the impact mangled the metal beyond repair, and i snapped the rod trying to bend it back into shape.
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it’s been a long time since i tried my hand at poetry. i wrote this on a whim in just a few minutes, so be kind.
>> night return
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disturbing dreams……………
must kick into high gear on thesis. bye now.
:/
a bad day. a strange day. an interesting day. a stressful day.
i broke up with anna marie… and in a sense, i feel like i didn’t. it seems like a matter of circumstances, not desire. i need to sort things out. i’ll figure this out when i’m sober.
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oh boy. you know it’s a BEAUTIFUL day when your Russian Lit prof calls it “a day of mourning for the Democratic Party.” oh man, i just soaked it in. glorious.
i soooooo need to get working on my thesis. dammit, this sucks. the pit of my stomach seems always to be churning, my muscles never relaxed. something about my days is… unsatisfying.
here are a coupla pics of my sis, niece, and nephew from Halloween. could my nephew be any cuter?
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