sold my skin to Tiffany’s

Tonight’s adventure with Carrie involved:

Me getting a better grade on the midterm (but i’m sure she’ll do better than me on the other two!); a bottle of wine; twilight; amazingly good experimental chili thanks to Britt; a second bottle of wine; a quote of hers I told Carrie I was going to write down but now cannot remember… and lots of mocking Twilight.

All around a stupendous evening. Thanks for hosting me, Carrie and Britt (even if it was unwilling on Britt’s part: Good luck on that midterm!)

Edited: March 24th, 2009

My roommates are… glorious.

For those of you who don’t know, I live in student housing. My roommates are Emma and Liz, and they are 20 and 19, respectively. We get along OK, but sometimes I just have to hang my head in shame at the things that come outta their mouths. Below are just a few examples of their pure genius.

Liz (out of nowhere): “Jake.”
Emma:”Who’s Jake?”
Liz: “this kid Jacob that I know” (wow, really?)

Emma: “Well, if he doesn’t mean anything to you, you might as well have sex with him.”

Liz: “Let’s get some chink food and watch a movie!”

This might also be a good place to mention that Liz farts more often than I burp… at any and all times of day, anywhere in the room.

Edited: March 5th, 2009

#inaug09

I watched today’s events on my laptop, on CNN.com, which was partnered with Facebook, and made watching it more interactive, I suppose. Realtime status updates from my friends? Oh joy. Oddly, though, we had CNN on in our room, but I preferred listening with my headphones. At least on the web version, Wolf Blitzer wasn’t talking during the “Air and Simple Gifts” performance.

I was particularly struck by this line of Obama’s address:

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

Obama is such a powerful writer and orator, and that line just invokes such amazing imagery. I’m also quite excited about the new white house website. It has a BLOG! And you can follow the white house on Twitter? God Bless Obama for embracing technology.

Edited: January 20th, 2009

Suite Francaise

“He wore the expression found on people who have died in an accident, in a matter of seconds, without having had time to be afraid or suffer. They would be reading a book or looking out of a car window, thinking about things, or making their way along a train to the restaurant car when, all of a sudden, there they were in hell.”

Edited: December 23rd, 2008