Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Category: Long Reads

Stories that take a bit longer to get through.

  • The Orange Box

    I preordered The Orange Box over Steam not too long ago and scored five games for $45. Unfortunately I already had two of the five (Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One), but I’m recouping some of my expenditure by passing those two along to Omar for a small fee. He started playing Half-Life 2…

  • Harry Potter

    After several weeks of returning to my room, rudely deserting my appalled roommates and shutting myself away until the wee hours of the morning, only to wake up exhausted the following morning, I have finally finished the Harry Potter book series. Yes, I know, I’m about oh, say, four or five years behind the rest…

  • Don’t You Just Hate When You Forget

    I can’t stand it when I have the perfect idea for something to write here, and then forget it hours later. It’s like the more information I try and cram into my brain, the more stuff falls out the back, forgotten. At any rate, my day got off to a poor start when I was…

  • Labs Suck

    Cell Biology lab has put me in a foul mood this afternoon. To be fair, it starts at a disadvantage thanks to the time: 2:30-5:30 on Friday afternoons. However, any remaining grace I may have felt for the class evaporated faster than isopropyl alcohol when my partner Amir and I began the activity. So much…

  • It’s not that I hate Macs…

    I own a number of Apple products, I have given Apple products as gifts, and I most likely will purchase an Apple MacBook Pro to replace my current laptop computer. What really gets me, though, is the idea that PC problems can somehow be solved by switching platforms. It’s as if a customer, upon purchasing…

  • SteelWolf: Reanimated (UPDATE)

    Yeah, so I obviously left this corner of the internet to rot while I went off to college. For shame, deserting the internet community for education and socialization. For whatever reason, I’m attempting to reanimate this place. Maybe it’ll get to the point where I can actually promote this as my website again. I’m going to University of…

  • Urgent Degeneration

    I started the day by waking up a half an hour earlier than usual, which is always a bad sign. Life starts messing with your head as soon as it realizes that you really have to make every point in your day squeeze along a straight line. So much for linear functions…mine had to be at least x4 inclusive…

  • Huzzah for Insecurity!

    It must come with the territory, turning eighteen (July 10!) and graduating high school. Faced with so many upcoming changes, it’s natural to be just a bit worried. After all, who knows what could happen if I picked the wrong brand of microwave popcorn? I’m sitting in a baseball field where my little brother is practicing for…