So for the past few weeks, I've been playing an MMO called Rappelz. It's really fun, the graphics are good, and it's a way to stay friendly with Hillary when we're both busy with our own stuff. I played it my first semester at UIC as well, as Hillary was the one who got me into the game in the first place and, again, a good way to bond over ( Read more... )

This is an essay written in English without non-Germanic words or constructions. Kind of fascinating in that most of it still makes sense if you pause a moment ( Read more... )

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I counted, five group projects in the fire right now. Three done this week.

- Hypothetical product presentation (in Spanish ( Read more... )

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If you've been following my LJ for any period of time, you know that I really love The Twilight Zone. I've been watching the Scifi marathons twice a year for about 10 years, and own two seasons and a bunch of the individual DVDs. I mention this only as my credentials for what I'm about to say. Spoilers, by the way ( Read more... )

My 21st birthday is on Friday. :D I got my gifts from the parents early - an Amazon.com gift card from Pops with which to buy books for my Kindle, and a Teavana gift card from Mom. Well, sort of on the second - I haven't actually gotten the gift card yet, but she told me about it already. What I think I may do is buy a teapot elsewhere (cos Teavana ( Read more... )

This took way too long to make, especially because I was using MSPaint to make it. However, it's made! And shall now be my new icon for rambling or otherwise tl;dr posts.

...this will make much more sense if you go read this. In particular the second page up from the end, but the whole thing had me in stitches earlier.

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Is it awful to say "I can't wait for my birthday, I wanna buy SO many books" when it's still almost two months away?

Even though I haven't actually had the chance to read anything by him, Richard Matheson may become my new favorite author soon. The thing he's written that you probably know is I Am Legend, but his work has been turned into several ( Read more... )