Awesome contextless quote of the day:

"I lost that one. I brought angst to a gunfight."

This post is brought to you by my desire never to forget any conversation I ever have.

Go back to your old Internet haunts and check out the posts that 13-year-old you made. Count how many you still understand.

It's like nostalgia meets detective work!

“The books you loved when you were in fourth grade and read them to tatters, you’ll never love another book like that.”
Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate EventsHarry Potter was such a large part of my life for so long that I don’t even know what it’s given me. Apart from a few things-one very close friend, a moral compass in one ( Read more... )

What's cooler than going to your university's TEDx event?

Going to your university's TEDx event as a journalist, and getting a press pass.

*swoons*

Thank you, Farscape, for getting me through my finals.

(Two down. Last one in two and a half hours!)

Hey, flist! If you're one of the super-special people who used to frequent the Sugar Quill, you should come to our post-Deathly Hallows Quill chat on Saturday, at 4 pm EST ( Read more... )

I have joined CMU's improv club! It's called No Parking Players (no, no one knows why) and it's really awesome. It's like summer camp, only some of the people are actually good at improv, and they always teach you how to get better ( Read more... )

My floor's lounge is pretty awesome right now. See, we're not allowed to put holiday decorations up if they are in any way related to any religion at all. Like, we're not even allowed to put up things that are red and green. Because that would be exclusive.

So we banded together and made...the Secular Box!

( A few photos below the cut )

My friend Jack turned his room into a giant pinhole camera. You can stand in it and watch the projected image materialize on paper (not photograph paper, yet). It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen ( Read more... )

Tonight was the Battle of the Rock Band Bands at CMU. A few of my friends and I--Jack on bass, Paul on guitar, Sara singing, me on drums--signed up as The Steam Tunnel Project. We got decked out in rock star clothes, dragged pretty much our entire floor along as groupies (there were signs, and a gogo dancer) and rocked out ( Read more... )