Travel to a number of places, including (but of course not limited to) Antarctica, Machu Picchu, Ankgor Wat, Egypt, South Africa, Auschwitz, Kenya, Petra, Alaska, The Great Wall of China, etc, etc…. Walk on a glacier. Solve a Rubiks cube Write a novel. Finish my bachelor’s degree. Obtain a master’s degree and then a pHD. Live in Europe for an extended period of time. Attend a rave. Participate in a protest. See the Aurora Borealis. See Mount Everest (but not climb it). Drive a motorcycle. Hike the Appalachian trail. Live outdoors for an extended period of...

Oh, the world is in a state. I suppose it’s always been in a state. Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, why did you fake the election results? Why are you killing people that don’t want you in power because you’re a fundamentalist nut? Why can’t you accept that your fellow Iranians want to catch up with the rest of the world? And China, why are you further restricting internet access to your citizens? What don’t you want them to know? And oh oh oh, Mr. Obama and Congress, why did you take over the tobacco industry? Who the hell are you to tell me that my...

Damn you, Apple! I drove for 45 minutes to one (of two) Apple stores in Louisiana, and found that (a) I had to wait in line just to get into the store and (b) there was no tech support available today. Of course, the new iPhone came out today, and I completely forgot about that. The latch that keeps my MacBook Pro closed is broken, so the screen flaps about when ever I attempt to close it.  In other news, one of my friends and I went to Books-a-Million yesterday (locally we call it Books-a-Hundred) to cause general mischief. We put a lot of the bibles in the fiction section,...

So I’ve been working full time, and there’s a Starbucks five minutes away. Now, I am not a fan of their coffee; it’s too bitter and tastes like the sweat of the starving Guatemalan children who picked the grounds. I also don’t always have $5 on me to buy a cup of their mediocre coffee. However, I tried one of their frappachinos and now I am addicted because it’s more sugar than coffee. Damn, it tastes good. One of my friends warned me to watch how many I buy over the weeks, because she knows my income is minimal and Starbucks is expensive. But...

I came across an article, “How intellectual pollution has crippled America’s children,” and I have decided to rant about it. Though I am proud to be an American, there are things which I hate about this country. Public education is a fantastic, monumental landmark in civilization. The fact that every single American has the right to an education is a beautiful thing. The state in which the public education system lies, however, is abhorring. I vouch for this because I have been most unfortunate to receive one of these said schoolings, in a system that was ranked...

In a moment of weakness, my very bored friend and I went down to the French Quarter and took a haunted tour around the Quarter. I felt like such a tourist, with my ‘Haunted History Tour’ sticker, walking with a big group of drunken yankees. However, the experience turned out to be a fascinating one. The tour guide was amazing. Not only did give us the paranormal information about the various buildings we stopped at, he gave us the little known history of the said location. One that particularly stood out was the LaLaurie Mansion, whose original inhabitants had tortured...

PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. IV. Death by Water, from “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot A kid I was friends with in primary school killed himself last night, by jumping off of the tenth story of a cruise liner into the Gulf of Mexico....

I am spending the weekend with my friend at her sister’s house. This morning I was woken by her 8-year-old before 7:00. Sleeping on the fold-out couch in the living room, she came and delighted us with cartoons. Loud, obnoxious Nickelodeon cartoons.

I finished this semester with a 3.3. I worked my ass off. The thing that messed it up is my biology grade. I was doing really good in the class at first, and then I guess I got lazy.

I found a journal entry from not too long ago that intrigued me, and I’ve decided to share without caring who reads it. I’m not sure why I stopped at the point that I did; perhaps it was late and I was tired of writing. It’s not particularly well written, as journal entries tend to be, but what I went through is a valid part of myself that I am now able to move on from and learn from. You can find the song on YouTube here, if you’re interested. A few minutes ago I was listening to “The Dead Flag Blues” by this super indie band named “Godspeed!...