So, my school is hosting the coolest event ever. five secretaries of state. one stage. christian amanpour is moderating, and i really like her. (including HENRY KISSINGER, who, y'know, i know more about than any rational person my age does, after years of research for various projects ( Read more... )

So BSG is finally, finally FINALLY starting up again.  see comments below.  in other news, my family is finally all gone, i am over the awful awful food poisoning experience that seriously, i would give my meagre life savings to prevent from happening again.  yech.  but hey.  have seen the sakura twice, it's so beautiful.  ate a lot of good food ( Read more... )

oh my god.  so anyway, my school is officially even insaner.  i am auditing a class, but of course, they don't tell you what you need to do to be officially auditing a class.  so i find out the end of the week before the last chance to turn in the formy thing.  monday, i get my prof to sign it.  tuesday, i head to the office where non-degree ( Read more... )

oh. my. god.  my feet hurt so bad.  in the first place, today sucked because i had a one day weekend.  nowhere near as fun as a three day weekend.  bah.  then, i can't even take tomorrow off because i have, yes, you guessed it, another event.  to make, since monday last week,  six days of events.  six days of events in nine days.  i'm going to cry ( Read more... )

so yesterday was, like, apple day on campus or something. university apple day? anyway, so the first hint i see of this is, as i'm trotting from the metro to my building, like, eight blocks away, there's sidewalk chalk in front of kogan plaza saying "hippos love apples" i'm like ... we have hippos? but since hippos are the unofficial mascots, ( Read more... )

so i'm making good progress on my chinese. I'll have finished five chapters in two weeks, which is pretty cool. Now if only I was confident I could remember all of these characters ( Read more... )

ok, so the book said "subtropical monsoon climate". it said "it rains a lot" and i was doing ok. as the plane was landing, the chicky doing the annoucements said that it was raining the usual afternoon rain shower, and i was like "oh, nice, i've done that before, i like that!". and it did that the last few days, rained in the afternoon, which ( Read more... )

Well, I'm using finals as an excuse. However, there have been a few significant events since my last post ( Read more... )

new shoes, new skirt, i looked very cute (and the shoes were awesome, only a little rubbing along the outside edges of my feet). right now i'm putting off calling mom back (and watching tv) and working on a cover letter ::twirls finger:: i managed to make it to the dentist... but i have this huge mental list of long-term projects i'm working on, ( Read more... )

this paper is like pulling teeth, my god. TEETH. PULLING. NOEVILBAD. I'm not entirely sure I have an argument, and i'm also not entirely sure i have a problem with that, and i should, god, i should have a problem with having no argument ( Read more... )