Space Ninja

I quit posting to hatelife quite awhile ago, because I didn’t really hate anything. Honestly, I hadn’t hated anything since highschool, and there was only so much old angst I could post about.
But I’m back, baby!
Yeah, I know it’s nothing original to be hating your job sometimes, but that’s what’s going on with me right [...]

Ha! This is a great bit of news. It helps you remember that people are people wherever you go.
“Residents of Kabul, freed of the Taliban’s restrictions, celebrated by blaring music from radios and shaving their beards.”
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This is a copy of an email I recently sent to a friend.
You know me well enough to know that in general, I’m an optimist, and I want to believe that the government has our best interests at heart. If for no other reason than that college is full of anti-estalishment people, and I tend [...]

Ah, nothing like a good old fashioned head cold to make you hate the life.
I have a runny nose! …I am irritable!
My throat is sore! …Everyone sucks!
I’m nauseous! …Society is to blame!
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there are many reasons why I consider myself an optimist, but I never really thought much about it until Annie announced that she thinks I am a pessimist.
She talked to me about it and explained that she was basing that on the way I reacted to certain things, and specifically, my frequent announcements (only partly [...]