I'm moving to Los Angeles. Due to family stuff, partly, though I'll be moving in with friends. Who's in the area?

Away, on a kahuna of ninja glitter.

My new T-shirt just screams maturity, or at least 'St. John Allerdyce.' My mom will kill me if she ever sees it, I feel.

After I slept for 12 hours, my baby sister and I sat on the biggest staircase at Columbia University (re: photographs) and spent an hour discussing Life, the Universe, and Everything, and eating really tasty sushi. You'd be ( Read more... )

Every few years, I make it a point to attempt some type of writing competition. I'm sure there is a large and colorful catalogue of psychological and artistic implications behind this, but NEVER MIND all that. This year's specimen is the 'Morse Hamilton Fiction Prize' (in which there do not seem to be any actual 'prizes' involved).

They are ( Read more... )

my baby sister snores. This I never knew, though we shared a bedroom for maybe 13 years. Unlike the respiratory railroad that Shanghainese genes have invariably doomed my mom and her side of the family to, potatocouch's snore is absolutely adorable: very quiet, very airy, the exact syllable 'coo... coo... coo...'

I knew there was a turtledove hiding under ( Read more... )

it takes more effort than I expected to conceal my whacky fun manic symptoms from my mom.

at 5AM she asked me, 'You haven't slept at all, have you?' and I realized she'd been gauging my tosses and turns for 2 hours. I denied it, then spent the next 3 hours suppressing motion for half hour intervals. I named a whole bunch of constellations after my ( Read more... )

AWESOME news: I pulled off my disciplinary meeting on one hour of sleep. The dean was very nice, reassured me lots, and gave me an apology form that I only took about 5-6 rereads to comprehend, but in the end nothing unexpected happened. a good thing.

AWESOME news2: my mom's still scheduled to fly in on Tuesday, to visit me during spring break ( Read more... )

So I am distracting myself with some old photographs I hadn't edited and/or posted from 2005.

HONG KONG


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You ever heard a story about a ship sinking with all its lights still on? my family's current health situation reminds me of that.

Maternal grand-dad's been wheezing for a week now, with something that the diagnosticians couldn't decide was pneumonia, bronchitis or good old-fashioned asthma. The bronchitis medication they finally prescribed him ( Read more... )

spent more time out of my dorm this weekend than I have in a long time. you see, my aunt from San Diego gate-crashed her boyfriend's par-tay in boston so she paid me a visit, took my roommate and I out to sup with her man and his friends on saturday. old people, as in, too old to sleep with but not to joke about it with.

I'm trying to think of the ( Read more... )