Wow. Just finished a back-to-back-to-back Harry Potter readthrough. Three weeks or so, including holidays. Three weeks of these books ( Read more... )

Ever have that moment when you're surfing the web, curious about the one-in-five stars with habitable planets, and then you read a hundred articles about quasars and quantum and the history of the universe and half an hour later you're just kind of staring into space because ( Read more... )

Am doing all sorts of researches on the area I'm going to. Fascinating things I have found:

+ I HAVE TO ASK THE TOURGUIDE ABOUT HAN/XIONGNU RELATIONS. Homg. Xiongnu/Huns had mid-asia and the Hans had the east, and there was apparently both serious contention but also serious cultural bleedthrough. This says: On the other hand, the Chinese ( Read more... )

I'll tell you about all my walking adventures of today later, but for now, and since it's late, I'll just say:

HAPPY

HUNGARIAN

NATIONAL

DAY!!!!!!!

o luk it is jewn 4 hav anothr 2 kweschuns:

3. Have you ever read an entire book in one sitting? If so, which one?This is a thing which usually happens when, in the winter, I return from Chinaland, have spent enough time with my faamily, and fall into books. Most specifically, it happens when, upon my rearrival, I first go back to a library ( Read more... )

Favorite student sentence of the day:

"I would be totally digital and harmonious."

...♥

Oh my god. You guys. You guys.

Today I spoke Chinese without realizing it.I was about to start class, setting up for presentations; students were talking, making smart remarks about the namelist, and I smart-remarked back, and there were lols, and one of them said "oh, so you're finally speaking Chinese ( Read more... )

HEY GUYS

GUESS WHAT

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

MA A SZULETESNAPOM!!!!!!!

今天是我的生日！！！！！！！

(I have lived for 26 years. It's really weird thinking about it that way. It's like 25 is a milestone, because it's such a nice, round number. My feelings are a mix of "birthdays are happy!" and "today is shitty weather and also pretty normal-day li ( Read more... )

An email exchange I had today:

Guy to whom I sent Missy Gin and the Trouble She Was In:
I like the story, but I need to know if you are still considered a resident of the United States, primarily for tax purposes for our publishing company.

Meee:
Yes, I am considered a resident of the US. I'm a taxpayer back home, when I go back (Christmas-New ( Read more... )

GUYS GUYS GUYS I'M GETTING PUBLISHED AGAIN!!!

Not the story I was just working on ( Missy Gin and the Trouble She Was In), but one I submitted two months ago ( Matty and the Grey Man). They sent the acceptance email at 8-something this morning, while I was in class, and I just read it ( Read more... )