Sorry about the absence. I'm better now that people are back on campus, but for most of the week, I felt kinda down every time I was in a position to update, which (we've discovered) doesn't really help me make them. I think I figured out what the problem is, though.

Well, one of them. Lord knows that, while in the grand scheme the problems I have ( Read more... )

Being lonely is remarkably self-reinforcing. You're lonely, so you're depressed, so you stay in. No fear, though; I'm working on it.

The other thing is that Robert, the guy I was going to room with, a guy I'd gotten along with in China, is in fact living in Nebraska Hall this semester. Which on one hand is understandable, I mean, Nebraska. On the ( Read more... )

Ok. This really is going to be the last time I buy an iPod until 2010. I get a lot more use out of the bastards than I do out of the digital camera which cost me twice as much, so I really shouldn't complain. But I do, because they're expensive and so shiny and small and needing to replace them every so often is really annoying.

Of course, the ( Read more... )

OK. Time to review every book in the history of ever. Go!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie: I'd been reading this over the course of a few weeks. I don't know when I started it; I finished it on the second trip we took to the Great Wall of China, back on the seventh of April. It was...

Well, it's a good story, about the ( Read more... )

So, I'm in the library right now. Basement level, in the room with the Mud Box coffee place (closed at the moment), a bank of computers, and the reserves desk.

Also, the Take A Book, Leave a Book Bookshelf, aka Fiction Book Exchange. Once more dealphabetized. It vexes me, but I don't care enough to change the situation, which is why Tibet is still ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back home, at long last. Feels nice; there's been a lot of changes, and my room has been rearanged, and its' a lot colder than DC, which makes sense, but otherwise, it's great ( Read more... )

Yeah. It's been one of those.

It's been a long run since I had to use the waste tag, but the time came at last. Because thats what today was. Oh, November fifth! How did I waste thee? Let me count the ways ( Read more... )

Just saw Crash.

You should see Crash. Crash is almost as good a Magnolia as Magnolia is. Not to knock either film. I can get superficial (both great dramas, fine acting, twenty characters with their own plotlines, take place in LA, end with unrealistic weather (Crash more than Magnolia)), but that's really where the comparisons end.

Crash is a ( Read more... )

I've officially finished watching The Office, about eight hours of the most awkward (Heh. Always have to triple-check the spelling of that one), un-funnily hilarious television a network has ever seen fit to broadcast. Naturally, it's BBC; no American network short of HBO would be comfortable enough to have a brief bit with a dildo, a semi-racist ( Read more... )

A brief précis: today, I bought a copy of Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry "Writes more than Douglas Adams" Pratchett. It arrived at the Other Tiger at the perfect time: the day after I finished Catcher in the Rye. I decided that I wasn't allowed to start the book until I do some writing. Either a Livejournal post (as clearly I'm not doing ( Read more... )