posted by Alison 11/26/2002 09:47:00 AM : (0) comments : splink

Beautiful disasters: a cloud of fog over California, a glacier collapse in Russia, a typhoon in the pacific, Mt. Etna erupts.

posted by Alison 11/26/2002 09:43:00 AM : (0) comments : splink


Sunday, November 24, 2002

For people who have not yet escaped standardized testing: the worthless word of the day.

posted by Alison 11/24/2002 11:26:00 PM : (0) comments : splink

I am suffering from a strange sort of involuntary narcissism. After filling out dozens of graduate school and scholarship applications I feel like I'm being forced to be self-centered. I have to meditate about me, write essays about me and how great I am, and answer stacks of little questions about myself. Any negativity or self-doubt is strongly discouraged. So I write about a highly edited version of me, one without flaws or uncertainty. And each school will receive a thrice-edited advertisement. I’m 50% off right now, just in time for holiday shopping.

This is starting to wear me out; I've never had to write so much about one thing before. This makes it hard to blog, but at least I can be negative here. Maybe I’ll write about other people for a few days and clear my head. I just came up with an idea for a screenplay today. I’ve been kind of worried because I've been in a dry spell for writing ideas.

posted by Alison 11/24/2002 11:18:00 PM : (0) comments : splink


Wednesday, November 06, 2002

Today is my birthday, but I had my party on the 1st of November. I enjoyed probably my last election day/birthday to be celebrated with free bowling in the Hippodrome. In the next lane was a student who had just lost his job because Sen. Max Cleland failed in his reelection bid. I guess this is why Election Day is strangely personal in DC. Sometimes it's like people are voting as to whether you'll be employed the next year.

posted by Alison 11/06/2002 01:43:00 AM : (0) comments : splink

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