Redefining Social Networks

For the past year I have been a student at UNCC, and I have been away from my high school friends for nearly 18 months. During high school towards the middle of my senior year various teachers were telling the seniors as a whole “enjoy the time you have together, for after you graduate, you […]

Unable to Focus

I don’t know what has been happening to me lateky, but I can’t seem to focus on anything. I have been bouncing between tasks constantly. I have like 5 uncompleted blog entries waiting in my content management system, the topics vary greatly, from my new friend Lewis to my decision to generate a library-like record […]

What To Do When You Meet A Homosexual

1. Do not run screaming from the room. This is rude. 2. If you must back away, do so slowly and with discretion. 3. Do not assume they are attracted to you. 4. Do not assume they are not attracted to you. 5. Do not expect them to be as excited about meeting a heterosexual […]

The Abuse Continues

well.. tonight has been interesting so far, my father and i got off to a great start. First, I was talking to my mother about my dinner and mentioned that I could prepare my own plate, unlike my father. From across the room he responds with: “kiss my ass you son of a bitch”. A […]

Song for the Lonely

In the past 2 days I have heard complaints from a lot of my friends about being lonely and not being able to find anyone, and things of that sort. One of the most odd is one of my friends who has a hard time opening himself up to people he cares about, because of […]

To my readers…

At the request of… everyone? I am going to try to limit my number of postings from Barnard starting after today. Who knew that me sitting still immediately after class could be so catastrophic?

Will it ever end?

I was looking for the link for the previous entry, and ran across something totally weird: I don’t know about the rest of you, but ive never had a need to instant message a librarian. Also… Wouldn’t it be more useful to just use a chat feature in the page itself, especially since someone like […]

Living in a Silent World

Do you think of me as a quiet person? When I am around you, do you find yourself asking “what is he actually thinking/feeling?”? At the moment im realizing that I don’t speak up nearly enough and im not really that social, at least not as social as I should be. In high school I […]

Belonging to a Community

As we go through life we all associate ourselves with different communities, usually based on work or study. Since the wide adoption of the Internet as an acceptable place for communities to form, they have. What is funny is that the actual community-based websites, such as Yahoo groups, MSN Communities, and private mailing lists are […]

Confirm

Confirm – to authoritively acknowledge a query. (mine) Confirm 1. to give approval to : RATIFY (Webster) Confirm 2. to give new assurance of the validity of : remove doubt about by authoritative act or indisputable fact (Webster) “Scientists confirmed the 10th planet” – what the fuck is wrong with these media people? Only IAU […]