The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

We’re all just fumbling in the dark — for a heart of hearts

Month: December, 2008

step counter

I was on Nokia’s beta labs site last week, so I downloaded this app called Step Counter. I just went on a jog with it, and it is fucking awesome. It will spit out a detailed graph of your workout’s intensity, plus it displays a constantly-updated graph of your distance traveled, calories burned, and, of [...]

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the year without a summer

Thankfully, this gigantic paper on the history of humanity that I’m writing wasn’t due Tuesday. It’s due tomorrow. It’s 4 a.m., and I’ve written about 1500 words total. I’m at about the 15th century. Once the industrial revolution hits, it’s all downhill to 2008. I went and hung out at Christen’s on Tuesday, it was [...]

de cadenet

I was lost in Wikipedia researching my paper and ended up at Amanda de Cadenet‘s photo portfolio. Love the hair.

gave up on finishing my geography paper

It’s 15% of my grade. He said I’m getting 85% in the class, so that’s a solid C. I’ll ask him about it. I think I’m going to move more rapidly than I thought before. Days like this I feel like I’m going to kill myself if I have to live here much longer. The [...]