argene

I'm studying abroad this summer for three reasons:

70% There are no Middle Eastern/African political science courses at my school and I have deemed living without them to be a miserable and suffocating existence, and I planned to study abroad anyway.

20% I told my mother that I would not be coming home during the summer.

10% I like to travel and I wanted to...
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WHEN along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker round me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in the great constellation,
The place where a star used to be.

Nay, though the pole-star
Is blown out like a candle,
And all the heavens are wandering in disarray,
Yet when pleiads of people are
Deployed around me, and I see
The streets long outstretched Milky...
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Gungrave is shaping up to be a really good series. The first two or three episodes are kinda slow and border somewhat on pre-11pm Cartoon Netword anime stereotypicalness (all fighting, no backstory or character development, bad voice actors, shitty plot). But I added the rest of the series to the top four slots of my NetFlix list.

***On Average, You Would Sell Out For***


$1,064,808


At What Price Would You Sell Out?
http://www.blogthings.com/atwhatpricewouldyouselloutquiz/

One million? Whoever made this quiz thinks I'm a really cheap bitch.

Me, a pornographer? I don't even own a pornograph.
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Sometimes you don't realize your mother has taken your stuff until it's too late. It's three o'clock in the morning, and your sexually explicit material is gone, just when you need it most. So you have to search the whole house for anything with a picture of a woman on it.
Pretty soon you're at...
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So far, SIT is fronting about half of the cost for study abroad. I'm going to appeal my aid amount to see if I can get more. I'm still waiting to see about the college scholarship. I'm also checking out loan options.

I don't want to spend my 21st birthday drinking alone, so I'm planning on going somewhere. I just have to come up with...
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I sold my CD player boom box thingy and now have some cash. Now, how to use it? I could A) pay for driving lessons B) Place it in savings until I sell my computer so I can buy a laptop C) Buy a Digital Camera. I'm veering toward driving lessons. It's the most economically beneficial. I have no license and no car. I want...
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I'm re-reading Middlesex by Jeffry Eugenides. I kept pushing it back because of classes, etc. but the need to read the book was persistent, like a nagging itch right under the skin, so last night I retrieved it from the suitcase I used over srping break, and stayed up until 3:30 reading and watching anime on Adult Swim (I'm beginning to like Neon Genesis Evangelion...
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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