Today, the weather is beautiful.

This was a bit surprising, I must say; the past week and a half, the weather has been utterly wretched: cold and wet and cloudy, and the Employee Dining Room flooded. Yesterday, I was persisting in jokes at work about how buisness was bound to pick up once the weather improved.

In July.

But then, at about six in the ( Read more... )

Does it mean anything when, in a card she'd given you congratulating you for graduating, the professor who gave your literature thesis a C tells you that you might enjoy studying psychology?

One day until graduating. One night more of packing. Monday, I will be not with the crazi

A year ago, I was going to graduate American University with University Honors in Literature.

Six months ago, I was going to graduate American University with University Honors in Literature.

Heck, three months ago, I was going to graduate American University with University Honors in Literature.

Today? Today I gave Professor Noble my thesis. ( Read more... )

I'm writing this, in part, because I can't concentrate on the reading packet by my left elbow. And because... well, I keep meaning to write this. I keep meaning to write a bunch of things, stories and papers and essays, and I just can't summon the time for the ones that I want or the concentration for the ones that academia needs.

Well, I can't get ( Read more... )

So, things seem to be balancing out today.

Good: It snowed today! Eeee! I haven't seen snow since winter of 2005-2006, not counting that one day in Beijing, which you shouldn't because acid isn't water.
Bad: My shoes, it seems, are not made for snow. I'm not looking forward to going outside. Espeically since it's snowing again.

Good: Sara gave me a ( Read more... )

As I'd expected, my semester in China was, academically, my worst semester of college. Signifigantly, in that last semseter (which had been my worst, was

Chinese Language Level I: B+
Chinese Arts & Culture: B
Rural Economics A-
Modern Chinese History: B

So, first semesetr I've failed to get at least one A. But, given my scholarship is in no jeopardy ( Read more... )

Well, it doesn't feel any different, does it? I mean, yeah, it never feels different, but this time it seems marginally less climactic than last year. I blame the jackass on NBC who was one second behind on the count; the NBC clock said ten seconds, and he said eleven.

Regardless: it's been a hell of a year, huh? I don't feel any pressing desire ( Read more... )

Well, it's New Years Eve. A time of reflecting on the year that has gone, and looking to the year which is coming.

It's also a time to examine one critical metric for a successful year. Namely: Literacy.

So, in that spirit, I have complied what is almost without a doubt a highly flawed list of all the books I've read this year. Flawed less in the ( Read more... )

I remember the trip home from AU a year ago today having been suprisingly easy. Things just went perfectly, somehow, at least as I remembered it.

Yesterday wasn't going to be like that, for patently obvious reasons. I was carrying a lot more stuff, for one: everything I didn't need to leave in DC, in my great uncle's basement, was coming home; and ( Read more... )

Finals are complete
Plane departs at three thirty
Zippers, please don't break.