so i don't know if any of you heard, but this weekend, there was a tornado in iowa. which is really unusual. tornadoes don't usually hit so late in the year. anyway, it hit in stratford, which is about an hour away from where i live. it destoryed about half the town. turns out it was within a mile of my cousin's house, which is crazy. they could ( Read more... )

i went out and bought the kaplan GRE study guide thing today. also, i've checked my calander and i have two weeks before my test day. sheesh. i was reading admissions info for some university and it actually talked about average GPAs and GRE scores for people they admit. as far as GPA went, i was well above the average they admit, both overall and ( Read more... )

so.... YIKES. yikesyikesyikes. i wouldn't be writing now if i didn't feel like, uh, i just really wanted to:) tuesday is over. that means i have three days left till i leave shijiazhuang. i have one more day to check a class and a half's worth of papers. this quite honestly may or may not get done ( Read more... )

daniel is such a punk. he sends me a text, asking after my day. i say it was fun, fine, ask after his. he replies "interesting and weird but i can't tell you why." you can't do that to someone. that's such a horrible thing to do ( Read more... )

today i cleaned my apartment from 12:30 to 8:00 with only one short break, to start movies for my class. and after 7 and a half hours of cleaning? i'd say it's presentable. not spotless. but certainly presentable. i can't believe it took my that long just to make this place good enough. i spent an hour this afternoon on my hands and knees, with ( Read more... )

well that was unexpected. daniel and his friend dave from back home were in town today, so i went out to eat then to play some pool with them. dave was nice. the indian food was good. i played a bunch of games of pool against dave and didn't win any, techinically, but i had an overall moral victory. i played close games, and he was pretty good. ( Read more... )

so it's sasha's in qinhuangdao, oliver's in chengde, and jason's in jiangjiakou. i haven't reached shirley yet to confirm tangshan, which is too bad since that's where i'm planning on going tomorrow:) luckily, i'm only planning one night there, and i have other students' phone numbers there, just in case ( Read more... )

holy crap. i'm so stupid/out-of-it when i first wake up, even if it's just from a nap ( Read more... )

oh, and i should say ( Read more... )

ok! so today's my last full day at home with nothing going on for a long time. i guess that means... oh. i won't have time for livejournal the next... month, month and a half. wow. i hadn't thought of that.

( boring list of who i'll visit, where, and when )