philloak

i'm back in hamilton and settled into my old house but not my old room. what with the chenango festival people here now it's just evil corner rather than evil house. thankfully tim is still here.

i also moved into my spacious garage bay studio in schupf and it's pretty kick-ass. i have a feeling this summer is going to kick massive amounts of ass.

chuck palahniuk books finished in two days: 3
thomas pynchon books that i was already in the middle of finished this in the same time period: 0

ah, schadenfreude, it's been so long.

graduation has come and gone. i've seen off most of my housemates with the notable exceptions of ben and james who weren't actually graduating because they're just sprats still. i returned to a strange new hamilton reality, sort of. one without jeremy and tim and tits and pissnatch and gordon and et cetera, but i should clarify by saying...
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forgot one:

13. the thought of ever drinking whiskey again...especially irish whiskey...is absolutely stomach churning now. even the vague odor of whiskey makes me feel very unpleasant these days.

14. i don't know how much i can trust the bathroom scale but it looks like i might be under 180 lbs for the first time in years. let's keep up this "new, slender" phill thing,...
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i have returned to the united states $3000 poorer not counting whatever loan debts i've incurred this semester and in mostly one piece albeit nigglingly delayed. taking a page from sun's book i am going to do a bullet point summary of the semester:

1. definately a lot more surprises that i expected or enjoyed in some cases.

2. the classes were disappointing but i...
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four days left. 70 quid to go around, but i don't want to spend it all as i need to subsidize my liver when i get home.

we had our art show yesteday. it was quite good for having been thrown together in a few hours and the food lcc provided was excellent (horray for mini-quiches, the penultimate exhibition munchy). i drank too much wine,...
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kiss kiss, kiss for the budgieman

partially thanks to the just-finished weekend and the fact that i had been awake for 24 hours once again i had a strange slip in time when i realized i had absolutely no idea what day it was, and barely a clue as to what time. this situation was rectified by a five-hour nap. i have but one final left, and the book, which still...
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as of today i have a week left here. yet the class-related ball-punching continues. thank you, padma, for a suspiciously easy yet maddeningly vague final exam. i would have been equally well served with a question like "write about anything at all, but if you write about the wrong thing i will fail you motherfucker" because that's essentially what we're getting. my overthinking mind has...
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so i'm back in the lab, again, with things to do. some of the last things that need to be done, and i'm not doing them. because i'm stupid like that. there's also things to be done not-lab related and i'm not doing those at the moment either, and they definately need to be done in the next twelve hours but they still seem vaguely...
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