The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

tempus fugit

Month: November, 2007

walking on thin ice / i’m paying the price

Today wasn’t so bad. I had to write a bunch of news briefs, but the whole rest of the time I got to spend preparing the site for our December launch. I found a really awesome way to display our archives, and set up the way that users can subscribe to the magazine with a [...]

we could be the fire for this night

I had the most fun I’ve had a long time last night. Actually, the whole day was rather an adventure. I woke up ridiculously early and had to take the bus. However on the trip, I got within like 10 pages of finishing Wicked. It is such an amazing novel! I could’ve finished it, but [...]

2:30 a.m.

Not tired in the slightest. Can’t stop thinking about Terry. Finished my homework, but that’s about all I can say I accomplished. I was talking to Keith all day today (he’s turning me on to the wonderful Philip Glass), when I told him all about this plan I’d had for ages to make a huge [...]

heart of glass or a heart of stone

So I came up with the best hack in the world. I’m wearing my normal headphones under my voice recognition headset. They are my noise isolating headphones, so I hear this weird echo of my own voice inside my head. It’s very strange. However, when I connect the USB headset directly to the virtual machine [...]

Most depressing thing ever to find while cleaning my room.

And who said I wasn’t a sentimental fool? Went to work at like 9 a.m. (insane, but I got a bunch done) Went to Arden Fair, visited Christen like four times. I miss her. Looked at shoes (too expensive), but I was wearing my “betch” shirt so everyone was coming up and asking me if [...]