Interesting story posted my Garrison Keiler

After you've been to bed together for the first time,
without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior acquaintance,
the other party very often says to you,
Tell me about yourself, I want to know all about you,
what's your story? And you think maybe they really and truly do

sincerely want to know your life story, and so you light up
a cigarette and begin to tell it to them, the two of you
lying together in completely relaxed positions
like a pair of rag dolls a bored child dropped on a bed.

You tell them your story, or as much of your story
as time or a fair degree of prudence allows, and they say,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
each time a little more faintly, until the oh
is just an audible breath, and then of course

there's some interruption. Slow room service comes up
with a bowl of melting ice cubes, or one of you rises to pee
and gaze at himself with mild astonishment in the bathroom mirror.
And then, the first thing you know, before you've had time
to pick up where you left off with your enthralling life story,
they're telling you their life story, exactly as they'd intended to all
along,

and you're saying, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
each time a little more faintly, the vowel at last becoming
no more than an audible sigh,
as the elevator, halfway down the corridor and a turn to the left,
draws one last, long, deep breath of exhaustion
and stops breathing forever. Then?

Well, one of you falls asleep
and the other one does likewise with a lighted cigarette in his mouth,
and that's how people burn to death in hotel rooms.

"Life Story" by Tennessee Williams, from The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams. © New Directions, 2002.

Economic perspective

I've discovered that one of vending machines in the basement in my building has a small "issue". When you press D2, to get the 3 peanut butter cups package for 1$, you actually get that package, and the candy in the little isle next to it. It is amazingly satisfying watching the metal wires rotate and two candies fall, 2 for the price of one.
Too bad the rest of the world economy doesn't act in such a manner.

Susan Boyle

Check out this video on youtube, it'll blow you away..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il5TBgD9kHI

BROWNIE FAIL

Note; canola oil is not an adequate substitute for vegetable oil when making brownies.

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Wednesday again

I feel that this Wednesday is going much better than the last.. considering I am sitting in the class i left at the same last week and feeling remarkably better. Despite still not being very interested in this class (or at least a lot of the history of analysis we have to read- note this is a class on the American Presidency), coming to lecture is interesting and does help my understanding
Despite being my third class of the day (no it doesn't sound like a lot but I have a short attention span) I am doing pretty well.
I just received my grade for one of my midterms written right before Spring break and I was happy with the grade. Also I am watching the film Cyrano in my french class and if you've seen it you will understand the humor and brilliance of it. I highly recommend it, despite if you speak french or not (subtitles!)

I am in the process of planning my trip to Europe this summer to visit my parents, Seth, and Elizabeth in their respective countries: Hungary, Ukraine, and Ireland! I am very excited.

Snowed some today and it is pretty cold and windy out right now but I feel that spring is not a long ways off
This is a picture of a beautiful walking path next to the Mississippi river, submerged due to the recent flooding. Though here it looks quite pretty it is causing problems in other parts of the city and because of our recent snow the river crest still cannot be predicted. Though we have nowhere near the problems of Fargo/Moorehead, I have never seen the Mississippi this high before.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend wherever this finds you
Morley

Wednesday..busy day

The last few weeks have been particularly busy with classwork and then working at the pool during spring break all week and now back to the rigorous demands of papers and group projects.
It is snowing again here in Minneapolis but we are fortunate to not be in Fargo or the surrounding area currently, I cannot even imagine.
(Flooding and 2 million sandbags, let's just keep it at that).
In my third class of the day, waiting for the class to start and the not very well made sandwich in my stomach to digest along with my soy fruit shake (it looked good!) and the 50 chocolate covered almonds I must have eaten in my last class.
This week is a week for decisions, whether my own or around me. I find out tomorrow whether or not I got a job at the Freshman and Transfer Student Orientation office....

And it's Thursday night. I slept 11 hours last night after feeling slightly ill so that helped me to start my day.
I declared my French minor today which made me feel like my education is moving along at a good speed, not too slow, not too fast. Also worked tonight at the U of M Rec Center (where I lifeguard) and saw 4 U of M swimmers who were making a video.. not sure what about, but were chugging gallons of milk and proceeding to swim, two of the boys puking in the pool. A wonderful experience!

Time to go to bed, have to get up for my 5:45 shift tomorrow.
Morley

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