December 2011
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TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK
GRA-DU-A-TION
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Get a job!
And wear a suit.
Or don’t—but you still have to follow our rules.
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I have six months, or twelve, if I push back grad a quarter…to try as hard as I can to escape this supposedly inescapable paradigm.
Keep ya posted.
Biggest pet peeve: frequent misuse of the word “literally.”
“Literally” is not a synonym for “actually.”
Unless what you are referring to has both a figurative and literal connotation, you are not being literal but merely grammatically incorrect.
Ex. 1: “This was literally the hardest test I’ve ever taken.” So your test paper was made of...
On occasion I find myself lost in the dark cavern of life, fumbling in the darkness for some semblance of clarity as to where I am headed.
Good friends are like the pair of hands gripping the rope that supports you, tightening their grasp despite the calluses that may arise, lending their unwavering support.
On another note, drenching your writing in elaborate analogies is a cheap way of making...
So.. I seriously think I’m going to go back to school sometime in the future to get a physics and/or astronomy degree.
I’m nuts, but I guess that’s never stopped me from doing anything.
Biggest lesson this year: life is good, life is bad, life is clean, life is messy, life is controllable, life is uncontrollable. Life just is, and sometimes you just gotta let it be.
For you Christmas music aficionados →
“While other popular tunes arise from passion or desire, heroism or defeat, the Yuletide songbook is a catalog of modest thrills and postindustrial neuroses. A quick survey turns up portraits of manic stress release (“Jingle Bells”), overwrought hallucination (“Do You Hear What I Hear?”), complex Freudian trauma (“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”), desperate midlife lechery (“Baby, It’s Cold...