"I'm glad to hear you're at the center of newspaper drama. It's good preparation for life. My advice to you (advice I can't always seem to heed myself): WWOD. What would Obama do? He's my new model for calm, measured response to stupid people. If only I could remember it before I start yelling at people ( Read more... )

Remember that Wordsworth paper? The one I panicked about for two weeks, then wrote, basically, all in one go in the space of five hours, three days before it was due? The one I proceeded to not edit or even look at again until I printed it, to turn it in ( Read more... )

HEY ( Read more... )

And I miss my vacation ( Read more... )

My cat is the best thing ever. Just for the record. I love her more than life itself ( Read more... )

Apparently "trepidation" is dictionary.com's word of the day. How quaint ( Read more... )

Hi. I'm back. Please don't ask why I'm awake so early, considering the plane got in at midnight and I didn't get home until very nearly one. The jet lag and daylight savings really kind of screwed us all over ( Read more... )

This is going to be one of those annoyingly long and detailed posts that everyone hates and no one reads. But I need to make them anyway ( Read more... )

So yeah. Clarification on all the shit that happened today.

( Effing. People + journalism = headaches )

I did math in my Astronomy lab! Played with computers running Windows '98, and I did math! I solved this conversion thing in scientific notation AND got the right answer! I'm not kidding, I was so proud of myself...after lab I had to go to Fred's office to talk about my research paper, and I swear, after "Hi," the first thing out of my mouth was "I ( Read more... )