So…it’s been a day, and I’m absolutely sick of this funerary shit. I’m also sick of having to shovel out all this snow of everyone waking me up at some godawful hour of the implicit ban of having my boyfriend here. Where do I opt out of this funeral bullshit? Can’t we just put him [...]
The first viewing was today. It was just as heart-wrenching as I expected. The thing I will remember most will be the snow—no, I’m lying, the thing I will remember most is that I missed Ulrich Schnauss’ only tour date in like four years. I suppose I could’ve gone, but I was in no mood [...]
I know I’ve been posting a lot of my schoolwork, but I absolutely loved writing this paper and it’s probably the most satirical and biting thing I’ve ever written. The prompt was to analyze these two New York Times articles on the problems with our “culture.” The first column: David Brooks’s “High Five Nation” 9/15/09 [...]
I had to write a paper for my Methods of Literary Analysis class (the portal corse for English majors) about the imagery used in the film Bright Star which presents a fictionalized account of the life of the Romantic poet John Keats. I just got it back today, she wrote “well-written—very good work!” on it. [...]
Uncle died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. No, it was today. My cell phone barely works in the dorms, and my mom had called two or three times while I slept. I remember telling her she was in my dream, before she told me. I didn’t know what to do—I stayed [...]