Recent Entries

• this is it

  October 31, 2007

  the end... of my OD. it's been a long time coming. OD is like the abusive boyfriend i just keep coming back to for random "meaningless" hookups, it's just so hard to leave. but most of my friends that were on here left years ago or don't write more than once a month so i…

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• ugh

  October 5, 2007

  even when i was "cured" from depression, which has been the last few years, i would still get depressed every now and then. not normal sad, depressed. usually it was just a random day every week or two when everything seemed so bleak and hopeless and getting out of bed/off the couch was...

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• and this is why i can never be mayor

  September 18, 2007

  I was thinking today about how cities always attempt to give their streets cheery, uplifting names. Like we have a "High" street but I bet you anything there is no "Low" street counterpart. And who decided that nuts and foliage are optimistic, anyway? Every city has a walnut a...

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• motivational self-talk

  September 16, 2007

  I overcame the ankle injury with time, the blisters with special socks, the calf pains with slowing down and calf raises until my calves were strong enough and i will overcome these side pains too. and in the meantime, i will cross train. cross train hard. and next time i think it sounds like an&...

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• running stuffs

  September 9, 2007

  so after attempting unsuccessfully since march, i have finally completed my 5k goal!  that is, 3.1 miles without stopping. that second part is key for me. i kept getting to 2 miles then getting blisters, sick, or unmotivated and quitting for a while. i'd resume but by the time i was about to...

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• oh noez! lol cats iz corrupting our youths!

  August 30, 2007

  You know, every time I open up a newspaper and see an article about technology and adolescents it is always lamenting how netspeak and text messages are going to ruin our youth. These articles are accompanied by the obligatory list of "translations" of the kids' mystifying lingo to help...

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• 8/30/07

  August 29, 2007

  god, i am having a major case of the misses. wtf? a month and a half later? it's not like i loved him or had grand illusions of being with him forever. but i think he is the most i could like someone without loving them. and since i'm not ready to love someone yet…

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• linguistic gibberish (ha!)

  August 28, 2007

  I think that a lot of interesting results about our phonology could be obtained by generating strings of gibberish (using only sounds that occur in the speakers' language, such as English, but that have no meaning when put together) and forcing speakers to guess at interpreting them. For example,...

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• hmm

  August 24, 2007

  when it rains, it pours. yay.

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