This is going to be rather a disordered post. I am moving back to college on Tuesday and meant to be packing (eiri_berry and my other lovely suitemates are holding down the fort already.) These two facts--the disorder and the not-packing--probably correlate directly. If you've been around for any other transitions in my life, you probably know I hate packing ( Read more... )

I'm not sure exactly how I stumbled across Toki Pona. No, that's a lie: I think I started out at xkcd, checked out their forums, homed in on the linguistics section like a language-seeking missile, and found myself reading people's thoughts on conlangs. A day later, after a tangential foray into every writing system known to man, I went back to ( Read more... )

The c-store has of late developed a tendency to restock delicious Japanese snacks, but only a dozen at a time, which you must seek out before noon to have any chance of getting. So when I say that it reminds me of Makio and the pudding, those of you who have seen My Boss, My Hero will know exactly what I mean. Those of you who have not seen My Boss ( Read more... )

• It is humid beyond belief, so much so that only the light hiss of rain and the staccato drumming in the gutters distinguish between heavy mist and true precipitation. I'm not quite sure but will assume for now (because I like the brighter screen) that that half-heard roll of thunder was mere imagination.
• My first textbook arrived today: Nakama 1, ( Read more... )

My friends, dutiful students that they are, have been talking about their summer reading for quite some time now. I'd reasoned that I wouldn't be doing too much reading in Abilene anyway (wrong, as it happened; I'd failed to take into account that John clings to his video games even while being forcibly dragged away) and decided that I therefore ( Read more... )