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"The more the two sides try and call attention to their religious differences by slaughtering each other, the less there is to distinguish them from one another. They worship at the same altar. They're both apostles of the same murderous god, whoever he is....

Right now we're sipping from a poisoned chalice-a flawed democracy laced with religious fanaticism. Pure arsenic."

-Arundhati Roy
War Talk

Vision 20/200 without glasses

Vision 20/20 with glasses-Oh yeah

I went to the Bodies exhibit in Atlanta today. Human bodies, tendons, systems, ligaments all preserved in polymer, I loved the circulatory system wing-it was dark with bulbs lighting the capillaries and veins used to transport blood though out the body. I loved the human body cross section-I think it took up about eight feet or more.

On behalf of SIT Study Abroad, I am pleased to offer you admission to
the Summer of 2006 SIT Islamic Diaspora in Europe
program. Congratulations on completing this step towards an
experience that will have a significant impact on your life.

Seven things I want to do before I die:

1) Read 100 Years of Solitude in Spanish
2) Publish a book of poetry
3)Publish a collection of short stories
4) Live in Amsterdam
5)Own a house
6) Get pierced
7) Move to Canada

Seven things I can not do:
1) Date sucessively (I'm trying, but it's been over two years)
2) Climax vaginally
3) Find...
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Looking at Jessy's journal entry (she got married), I can't help but remember my great-aunt's reaction to my aunt's wedding.

My aunt had arrived to cart me from Columbia to Greenville to Grier(SC) to Dacula (Ga). I was at my great-aunt's house at the time being, and witnessed the incident.

My aunt told her that she had gotten married, of which my great aunt...
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Fuckin' A

I just finished by scholarship essay for SIT and my essay for my student disclosure form.

Now I have to
Schedule a doctor's appointment for a physical.
Write a letter to my homestay family (required)
Straighten out my insurance stuff for study abroad (insulin for eight weeks, emergency prescriptions).

And I got a weeks extension for my short story since there isn't a...
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I met a collector of rain once
-Ursula Rucker

Went to Java monkey today to taste tea for a short story. I chose the Lapsang Souchang. It taste like smoke and if I had been in a kitchen, someone would have come running in and asked if something were on fire. All I could taste was smoke over the pine needles in the tea. I...
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French is going well. I got a 100 on the quiz today-I was overjoyed because of this. I wish I had time to take more French classes before I'm done with undergrad studies.

I want a sweeping romance/We'll drive a sportscar through France/Our stares will burn with distrust and desire/We'll forge Brazillian passports/Hide out at fancy resorts/We'll drink Martinis before we retire/And we'll conspire/The fate of the free world will rest in our hearts

-Prozzak

I did not know that you could get credit for internships in the English Department this semester. Hmmmmm.

Well, the Chair of the Poli-Sci deparment is giving me 4 credits for the programs and the others are going toward elective requirements.

Seriously, I'm considering finishing my Poli-Sci degree elsewhere after I graduate from here. It seems everytime I deal with PS it leaves me physically and emotionally drained.

I need to look on the postive side.
My mango chamomile tea came in the...
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