thinner

Hormone imbalance my ass. Steve Jobs is obviously the victim of a Gypsy curse.

In like sin.

I suppose this is one of those obligatory 'year in review' type posts. Here goes.

My major accomplishments for the year:

- Dated one of my teachers.

- Dated/ing someone who shares part of my name.

- Slept all night in a bar. More importantly, woke up naked in a bar.

- Drank a lot, but did not puke a lot.

Yes, these all have mostly to do with booze and sex and the immoral (awesome?) life i lead and ignore accomplishments that are probably more important. Oh well, these are just the things that were sticking in my mind today. 

Also: a quote from Dinosaur Comics: "Um, I'm thinking...that a lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the stories I'd love to be able to tell?"

I think I've done a lot to overcome this. Hence my list. Think about it.

Leopard Bikini Bound

Bettie Page died? What?
I didn't even know she was still alive. I also didn't know that she had become a born-again Christian and that she worked for Billy Graham's ministry. Anyhow, I know it's a completely unoriginal sentiment, but I think Bettie Page is hell of cool and iconic. Not a lot of people have that kind of staying power as a sex symbol.

I feel sort of like I felt when James Doohan died; not too sad because I thought he was already dead, too, but bummed because I feel like I missed something.

Poor, poor Mr. Quick

I have basically ceased to accomplish anything in these past few days. The semester is not quite over, but I'm sure acting like it is. My Duke application is due next Monday and I have yet to finish that, and I have a paper to write, 6 bassoon reeds to finish, a group project to finish and a history final to take. Yuck.

I was recently reunited with an old acquaintance who consumed a lot of my time this weekend (not in a bad way...it was a weekend of my two favorite deadly sins: sloth and lust) but now I really need to make up for it. However, I seem to be incapable of doing anything useful these days. Alas.

Erlebnisse

Happy birthday, Dad!

Happy deathday, John Lennon!

P.S.

I've tried to avoid titling posts here with German words and phrases because I don't like it when people try to alienate other people with their tenuous grasp of foreign languages. For the record, my German isn't that good, and I was just not creative enough to think of another title. This one more or less means "memorable experiences."

inspiration

I was getting really nervous about my thesis topic because I wasn't actually sure if I liked it or not. When I was doing some reading for it last night, however, I got really interested again! Good.

I have submitted my first two grad school applications. And I apparently made a mistake on one of them! However, I'm hoping that since that took the time to contact me and correct me, there are hopefully looking at me with some interest. Maybe not.

Also, I quit one of my jobs yesterday. At the bookstore. I just couldn't deal with the monotony anymore, and they keep making all sorts of really absurd rules. Most recently, we are not allowed to hug anyone or to tell anyone 'I love you.' I think the only thing I'm really going to miss, other than the money, is one of my coworkers. I don't know if I want her or if I want to be her. I will just need to go watch/listen to her spin more often.

yo-ho-ho

Does anyone else think it's terribly cool that pirates are making world headlines? I've never really been on the pirate-obsessed bandwagon, but I just think this is neat. I'm also not really a violence enthusiast, but these pirates don't really seem out to kill people, they just want to make a few [million] bucks. Also, I basically live in a cave so international crises tend to not have a large impact on my life, so I have the luxury of simply observing things like Somalian pirates and economic disasters without much fear. I think the reason I like this pirate situation is that it proves that no one is in control because people exist who refuse to be controlled. I can respect that, on some level, even if I don't necessarily think that piracy is the way to go.

Half of my grad school applications are due Monday and I am not prepared to submit them. I am extremely stressed out. Also, next week I have 32 pages of papers due. As soon as this semester ends I think I'll go on a pretty serious bender. It'll be great.