So it's "Welcome to the working week" to me! I begin half-time employment tomorrow as an editorial assistant. I'm trying to savor my last hours of freedom today.

I'm hoping for bigger things on the horizon, but for now, this will help keep the lights on--and of course, keep me in J.Crew sweaters!

"ya can't get blood out of a turnip"

goats, however, provide a ready supply.

^duly noted for the next Samhain

eh, this week actually i could barely pay attention. too much legal silliness. and the whole squicky, kinda incest thing is too much for me. but nate was a cutie pie!

i love boxxy

I'm wearing a The Big Lebowski tee. It says "The Dude Minds". Damn a White Russian would be awesome now.

haha. Clearly a side has been chosen.

I have 2 rubber bats hanging from my bed at the moment...and I sometimes feel as though I need more.

you should get more.

Yeah, I should have done that during the Halloween season, I just stole these from the Halloween decoration for the dorm building.

Hey, SY--tomorrow I become a Gamecock.

Ugh, I'm not sure if I should congratulate you or tell you to run screaming in the other direction. I guess you have to make that paper somehow.

Ha, ha, yeah. Could be worse. The USC campus is actually pretty decent. About the only decent part of this city.

I almost went to USC before I knew what SC was really like. I had an uncle with some connections throughout the state. Incidentally my elementary school mascot was a Gamecock now that I recollect.

UCLA > USC

^ You're referring to the real USC, not South Carolina. EVERYTHING is > U of South Carolina.

Haha that's what I get for skimming.

everything > every florida school except for maybe four at the most.

basic html knowledge FTMFW. It amazes me in this day and age how, when given step-by-step instructions, 75% of the people in my Comp SCI 100 class are still incapable of making a simple web page appear. and by simple I mean white background, black text.

Well, it's good to have you back here, Emma. I can imagine that it must feel a bit weird being back as SYG is still familiar to you, yet a bit different (some of the more well-known posters being missing in action etc).

there are few things like running for a fucking long time with your calf throbbing in pain, then coming home to a bowl of original-flavour very salty potato chips waiting for you and a cold glass of guava pineapple juice.

heaven.

it is heaven.

unless you don't like salt-laden potato chips and guava pineapple juice.

message for josh- watch yo ass, i'm two posts behind you.

schizogirl - man, I should start running again. I need to cut down on my cigs intake first though.

How's things with you over there, by the way?

I'm seriously considering taking a writing emphasis course at 8:10am on Tues & Thur about Tolkein's Middle Earth. I think I've developed some kind of brain fever

Edit: To hell with it, I signed up for it. I can go to class tomorrow and drop it if need be.

That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.
I want to name my first son Théoden.

It's 2.30 in the morning and I'm eating Sainsbury's Washed And Ready To Cook Carrot Batons straight out of the bag. Isn't this what depressed middle aged men who's wife has left them are supposed to do?

no, that comes with the bargain bucket and the copy of Razzle.

I might be posting a "Help Me!" thread sometime in the future about the course and I want you front-and-center to help. I have read Fellowship and half of Towers but that was about 6 or 7 years ago. The class has already met twice and the bookstore closed before I pick up the text, if there is any. I already have the one-volume LoTR book here with me. The official name of the course is Themes in Literature:J.R.R. TOLKEIN: CREATING MIDDLE EARTH. I have been told the profressor really knows her shit, like she can speak Elvish and whatnot. I'm not a super-nerd, more of literature fiend, but it fulfills a requirement now instead of having to wait until next semester and I'd rather write about elves and man and hobbits and orc than about Shakespeare any day.

Okay, Tolkien class=epic nerd win. The syllabus might contains more lulz than anything I've ever read. I wish I could reproduce it here, but it would take too long to type. Suffice it to say that she refers to "e-mail" as "elf-mail" at least once.

oh and also

there are people on twitter posting pics of passengers being rescued from a plane that just crashed into the hudson river.

the cause was... BIRDS

http://twitpic.com/135xa

I love how everyone's just standing on the wing like that. What a landing!

"Where are the brakes? Hey wait!"

it's very soothing. not the actual act of running, but finishing and looking back afterwards.

things are going well. the bf's coming up for tomorrow and saturday. and mandy's back in town soon, i'm pretty certain tomorrow, so that's exciting. i miss her!

everyone survived that plane crash, but if i were on that, i'd never fly again.

josh- i love that picture.

my girls by animal collective- holy shit, catchy song alert.

schizo - yays for bf and Mandy. I haven't chatted to her for a few days...look forward to catching up with her.

+1 on the airplane pic - just another case of your average plane "dropping in" to the River Hudson, as you do.

Now this I would pay money to watch.

Because this is funny.