January 2012
2 posts
Things that annoy me about tumblr: talk about abortion.
The aging hippie liberal douches on tumblr lololololol all day long about pro-life messages. I lean pro-choice but there is a legitimate argument on both sides. Abortion certainly isn’t a desirable thing.
December 2011
10 posts
Thinking about tomorrow won't change how I feel...
Given that I promised a lengthy post (and Talia will hold me to that), I should begin writing it. (note: I was expecting to draft this but ended up writing it straight through).
Overall, this was another amazing semester, and I continue to very much enjoy being at Davidson. It is the perfect fit and there’s nowhere I’d rather be.
The semester started out a little weird. I made a post...
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a...
After 14 hours of driving and 770 miles, I arrived home late this afternoon. Overall, I kind of enjoyed the drive. I had a companion for the first segment, but I left her in Maryland this morning. It’ll be nice to have Savannah for the drive back.
I’m going to make a lengthy semester-in-review post very soon, going back to my tumblr roots. Tonight is not the night, I need to get to...
There is perhaps no better feeling than finishing a semester in college.
Semesters in high school meant nothing. And when you came back from winter break the semester wasn’t even over.
3/8 of the way done…only one more fall semester at Davidson. Shit just got real.
I miss the tumblr of old
I realized that not I only do I rarely post, but the other tumblrs that I used to look forward to reading don’t post, either. My tumblr experience these days mainly involves scrolling through pictures posted by randos.
It makes kind of sad, I want to keep up with LHS people.
Scumbag Brain is one of the best memes of...
Things tumblr is not good at:
Accurately depicting political information from an informed, unbiased perspective.
November 2011
14 posts
My parents will never understand how hard it is for me to enjoy holidays without my siblings.
2/3 of the way through my 3-hour layover in Atlanta. I can’t wait to be home, too bad that won’t be until 1 am. In the meantime, I’m trying to outline a final paper and watch the Republican debate. That’s been interesting so far.
Despite the fact that this is one of the biggest airports in the world, my flight from Charlotte came in 3 gate away from my next flight. My...
Occupy movements have run their course.
It’s about that time…to get out of the street.
As you get older, and long-term relationships become inherently more serious, it becomes less and less acceptable to talk about the future, because it might actually be true.
After my American Civil Religion class, I always...
Sure, there are problems with our country. There are problems with every country. I’m as willing to criticize it as anyone, but not to the point of cursing it. I don’t care what hipsters in the streets say: This is the greatest country in the world. God Bless America.
You are a cinema, I could watch you forever
Talia regularly chastises me for not tumbling anymore. She’s right. But I feel like none of us post nearly as much as we did in high school.
It’s been a very long time since my last substantive post. I just make short angsty posts that I’m too embarrassed to write on twitter.
I’ll start bland: things are good. Sophomore year is certainly different, and in a lot of ways...
Yours sincerely, wasting away
My 19-year-old, male body isn’t holding up well to sustained neglect.
I've hardly seen Savannah for the last two weeks
I know she’s really busy and sick and her ankle is busted, and I try to help her out as much as I can, but there’s a point when I just don’t care. I want to spend time with her and if I were her I’d find a goddamn way.
Going insane. We live five minutes away from each other.
October 2011
4 posts
Dear Wall Street, this is why the people are angry... →
This is far better than a whiny liberal article.
I lean liberal, but liberals are so obnoxious.
Liberal news articles are so goddamn full of propaganda. So isn’t every source, regardless of the lean, but liberal article are so whiny. They make the biggest fucking deal out of everything. Goddamn hippies, have some pride in your country and stop acting like everything sucks.
I love America, and if people have endless complaints about it, they don’t need to stay.
To the internet community:
If I ever disappear on a run, I always have a map of my route pulled up on my computer.
One year ago today, I met Savannah.
September 2011
3 posts
Suddenly missing New England fall very much.
We are always running for the thrill of it
I finished the half-marathon this morning in 1:31:55, about twenty minutes faster than my goal. This is probably one of the best feelings I’ve ever experienced. In May, I went for my first run in quite some time and had to start walking after about a mile and half. Over the summer I ate as healthy as I could and ran every chance I got. I turned it up even more when I got to school and have...
"Now that we can't talk to Freshmen, I've been...
I worked in the writing center for the first time tonight. I worked with three “clients” and I think it went very well. Throughout our training, I saw quite a few parallels with camp counseling (not intended to be condescending). I think I’m going to enjoy this job a great deal, especially because I don’t need to write many papers of my own this semester (which I’m...
August 2011
11 posts
I hate the way girls interact.
Roommates, in particular. They’re so nice to each other, it’s sickening. They’re petrified of offending each other or putting them in an awkward situation.
Sometimes, Fred walks in the room and tries to start a conversation but I’m not feeling it, so I tell him to shut the fuck up. He calls me a bitch, I say he has herpes, he says I’m the worst roommate ever, and we...
It’s the first night of school and you’re still doing work at 115. Please don’t make a habit of this. I’d like to spend time with my girlfriend on occasion.
I’ve been in 9 states today. I think that’s pretty cool. Pops and I are posting up at a hotel about 80 miles from school and finishing the journey tomorrow morning. I tried to convince him that we could do it all but it was getting pretty late. I can’t wait to get to school tomorrow.
Mass, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the rearview mirror
No time to think...but I will, anyways
I got home from camp this afternoon. That means I’m home for the summer. That means I’m home for 20 hours.
Tomorrow, I set sail on the asphalt headed towards Davidson. I’m extremely excited to be back at school. My roommate moved in two days ago and I’m very jealous.
But this post isn’t about school, it’s about camp.
I entered this summer fully expecting it...
Please don’t be one of those people who thinks they need to have everything figured out at 19. You have your whole life to have a career. Be young while you still are and live in the moment. Have fun and don’t plan out every course you’ll ever have to take. Just learn for the fun of it. Because honestly, I can’t be with someone who takes herself that seriously right now.
The last week has been pretty crazy, and the events have precluded me from posting.
I was really enjoying my job as assistant construction foreman. Then my bestfriend got fired for having weed on camp. And I had to take his job. Not only was I upset that he was leaving, I had to move into his room while we was moving out. Initially shaken up, I managed to refocus and became completely committed...
It’s times like these that make you say, Lord if you see me please come my way.
Things have been strange. My fraternity email chain has become increasingly active, making me all the more anxious to be back at Davidson.
I continue to have mixed feelings about camp. Stomaching the fact that I may be entering my final two weeks stretch at Becket will be impossible. Thus I will not try. Larry is coming up in a week, and talking to him will surely allow me to make more sense of...
July 2011
6 posts
It’s not that I’ve outgrown camp, but lately my heart just hasn’t been in it in the way it was in past years. I wish I could figure out why, but I don’t believe there’s anything I can change.
After ten years, I need a break. I love camp and won’t ever lose sight of all that it has done for me, but I can’t deny to myself that I feel slightly burned out....
Has it really only been a month?
And I’ve still got six weeks ahead of me.
Been trapped in some Davidson nostalgia for a few days now.
My classes for the fall: Arabic, Islamic history, theological ethics, American civil religion.
If I don’t get burned out, this semester could tell me a lot about what I want to do down the road.
I’m getting increasingly certain that I want to be a religion major. I always tell people “maybe religion” but that’s about 90% at this point.
As I watched my friends plan their excursion for this weekend via a facebook thread that blew up my phone more than enough times, I started wondering why I can’t recall ever doing anything special for the fourth of july.
At which point I realized the last time I was somewhere other than camp for the fourth was 2001. Aha.
However, I love being at camp so I have no issue with that.
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