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So this quarter of school has been sort of a let down. By “let down,” I mean “trainwreck,” and by “sort of,” I mean “of epic proportions.” Next week is the last week of the quarter, and I’m really looking forward to it, because it’ll mean the end of me wanting to crawl under my […]

According to the nice people out there in electronland, an analysis of the text of my last (non-tweet) blog post indicates that… I write likeChuck Palahniuk I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! Unfortunately, the only one of his novels I’ve read was Diary, and, entertainingly slash embarrassingly, I only grabbed […]

Tonight was Organizational Communication class, and the topic was the attaining and exercise of power. Part of our homework was to read the paper “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” [PDF] by Peggy McIntosh. (It’s an excellent article, and you should go read it.) One of our exercises in class was a group discussion on […]

Fair warning: If you are prone to tl;dr, you might want to skip this one. So, the other day, in my Organizational Communications class — for which the homework was, as usual, some seriously dry chapters to read (seriously, guys, you could not have made this textbook drier if you’d buried the manuscript in an […]

I did something for the first time ever tonight: I bought a lottery ticket. Sure, I’ve done the little scratch-off ones when people have bought them as gifts for me, and when my mom played lotto when I was a kid sometimes she’d let me pick numbers and fill in the little scantron form, but […]