and the taiga shifted strange
I'm ill.
I gave up on doing homework and am instead now eating a brownie and cutting an Economist--generally preparing for Daily Show viewing. It's sad how most of my nights end up like this. But I wouldn't have it any other way. It's hard to be angry about the world when "it all comes down to the Tzipi-Bibi question!".
PLUS the Decemberists album is going to be CLASS. I guarantee it. And I have only heard one track. That is commitment.
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We're back into one of the China chapters in world history. In regards to the Ming/Qing dynasties: INTENSE. In order to get into the government, you had to take a civil service exam--crammed into a cubicle for three days while you wrote essays. About Confucius. And my textbook says something to the extent of, "if an exam-taker died during testing, his body would be wrapped in his bedding and tossed over the walls of his cubicle".
@_@
I've also decided that most of the problems in the world could have been solved had the men involved still had a grip on their wits. Chen was talking about her grandmother, who had her feet bound--her father eventually had them stop when she was really really young because he couldn't stand the smell. If everyone else "couldn't stand the smell", where would we be? Not amputating our feet, that's for sure.
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In barely-related Novel News, I want to be Mamajoon when I grow up.
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Not to be crass, but my Persian dictionary is absolute shit. I can get a decent one for Dari, but standard Tehrani dialect? Noooo, couldn't possibly. The one I have now (read: the only one I could find that didn't cost eighty thousand dollars) gives most of the entries in Arabic, and it's like--wasn't there a massive cultural cleansing campaign to try and get rid of all of the Arabic words unless used in religious circumstances? So--why are you giving me the Arabic word for 'sink'? Plz.
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It has come to my attention that a boy I know only vaguely is very fit. Not that I'm going to do anything about it other than stare.
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State is in a month! I need a pretty scarf and a flag pin. Thoughts for very very pale people? (Thoughts for very girly people: I was thinking white linen dress, black trousers, and a loose gray blazerish thing, so I need something daaaaring for my head. Plus the obligatory Patriot Cred with a pin.)
(Thoughts for everyone: not to jinx things, but if it's the first time two practicing Muslims make it to finals in anything in Nebraska, we'd better do it in styyyyle. <3)
I gave up on doing homework and am instead now eating a brownie and cutting an Economist--generally preparing for Daily Show viewing. It's sad how most of my nights end up like this. But I wouldn't have it any other way. It's hard to be angry about the world when "it all comes down to the Tzipi-Bibi question!".
PLUS the Decemberists album is going to be CLASS. I guarantee it. And I have only heard one track. That is commitment.
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We're back into one of the China chapters in world history. In regards to the Ming/Qing dynasties: INTENSE. In order to get into the government, you had to take a civil service exam--crammed into a cubicle for three days while you wrote essays. About Confucius. And my textbook says something to the extent of, "if an exam-taker died during testing, his body would be wrapped in his bedding and tossed over the walls of his cubicle".
@_@
I've also decided that most of the problems in the world could have been solved had the men involved still had a grip on their wits. Chen was talking about her grandmother, who had her feet bound--her father eventually had them stop when she was really really young because he couldn't stand the smell. If everyone else "couldn't stand the smell", where would we be? Not amputating our feet, that's for sure.
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In barely-related Novel News, I want to be Mamajoon when I grow up.
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Not to be crass, but my Persian dictionary is absolute shit. I can get a decent one for Dari, but standard Tehrani dialect? Noooo, couldn't possibly. The one I have now (read: the only one I could find that didn't cost eighty thousand dollars) gives most of the entries in Arabic, and it's like--wasn't there a massive cultural cleansing campaign to try and get rid of all of the Arabic words unless used in religious circumstances? So--why are you giving me the Arabic word for 'sink'? Plz.
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It has come to my attention that a boy I know only vaguely is very fit. Not that I'm going to do anything about it other than stare.
__
State is in a month! I need a pretty scarf and a flag pin. Thoughts for very very pale people? (Thoughts for very girly people: I was thinking white linen dress, black trousers, and a loose gray blazerish thing, so I need something daaaaring for my head. Plus the obligatory Patriot Cred with a pin.)
(Thoughts for everyone: not to jinx things, but if it's the first time two practicing Muslims make it to finals in anything in Nebraska, we'd better do it in styyyyle. <3)