Dear NYTimes
Don’t waste your time.
Things that are annoying.
-Not having a lighter/matches to light candles in your room.
-Rented DVDs that are held hostage because you don’t have time to return them.
-Feeling like you have to submit a resume to participate in any life function.
-(Patriarchy).
-College classes.
-A broken typewriter that can definitely be fixed, but you just can’t figure out how.
-”Seven months from now…”
-”Ending a [...]
The 1984 of newspapers
Two point five hours with Weddington
I hate when people blog about classes, but dude, I am taking Sarah Weddington’s “Leadership in America.”
Today I sat two feet away from her and every time I looked at her I got giddy. When I had to introduce myself my whole body shook. I thought I was going to have an anxiety attack, which [...]
Resolution
Apathy is covered in snow
And intentions have hunched backs.
I hereby resolve to become a merry recluse.
A must-read
One thing that extremely fascinates me about the Obama administration is its planned integration with the Internet. The article on TechCrunch today, “How Obama Will Use Web Technology” describes how he intends to inform the public through the medium–It resembles the way FDR used the radio.
By the way, it’s really cute when my mom [...]
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My boy, Barack
“Thirty-six years after Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, President Barack Obama took swift and decisive action today to end one of George Bush’s worst policies: the global gag rule.
This outrageous policy severely limits women’s access to family-planning services, which can lead to tragic results—higher rates of unintended and high-risk pregnancy, unsafe [...]
Touchdown
I finally received some long-awaited scholarship money yesterday. I then proudly walked in to the UT campus computer store today and purchased the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium.
We have been sitting next to each other for a few hours like we want to hold hands, but we are not sure who is going [...]
Obama-nation
From abomination to an Obama nation, the streets quieted, flags flapped, and the eyes of our colleagues locked. It may seem like this would be the precise time to be speechless, but today, January 20, 2009, “Happy Obama Day,” tends to act as a phrase of prevalence.
At first I viewed it in multiple text messages. [...]