observations
pocari sweat is wonderful. i miss it. the sketchy bottles of red bull are nice too, but not quite pocari sweat.
if the second law of thermodynamics is satisfied anywhere, it's my room. it's like my own ecosystem. but today, we're experiencing negative entropy (not in strictly thermodynamic terms). because i'm hosting a prospective student tuesday night. all said, gold key is still one of the more worthwhile things i'm doing with my life. ditto with reslife, even though it annoys me at times.
when people post on the jolt about committing suicide, they never use their real name, and they seldom lie. while some people bitched about the "attention whores", there were others who stayed up really late posting nice messages on the forum. i'm glad that there's people like that at smith.
ramadan begins today. well not in massachusetts, because we're different, but in my book, it's ramadan. i miss my friends. i miss fasting with them and waiting for iftar. i miss date palms and walking on the beach in qurum. i was planning to go and see sawsan today, but decided that ramadan takes some adjustment. i'll probably see her next week. and to everyone else, ramadan mubarak.
i was speaking to a friend whom i don't see too much of these days and we decided to get some food downtown at amanouz with another friend of mine. after one of those conversations that made me feel completely awkward and naive and aimless (because in a nutshell, all i seemed to want to do with my life was travel and learn a bunch of languages and do lots and lots of AI research), my friend reminded me that the best things in life are free, and if everyone wasn't so materialistic and didn't have so many needs, the world would be a better place. i need to hang out with the idealistic fools/hippies some more. and my friend and i need to hang out more often and do homework in burton basement while listening to alejandro sanz.
nothing beats the dark chocolate at the chocolate emporium. and vietnamese coffee at the haymarket. oh and the hot chocolate too.
we now have iTunes for PCs. everyone else seems excited about it, but for some reason, i don't seem to care.
i have to petition to spend next semester abroad. because i couldn't get both my departments to sign off on that sheet before the deadline. the more i think about, the more sense it makes to stay here, and start doing the background work for my thesis/yearlong special studies which is definitely going to be on computer vision (because i am yet to find someone completely obsessed with neurolinguistic processing in the compsci department- maybe i should speak to Jill deViliers in the psych dept before i set things in stone). but edinburgh is edinburgh. and i think i could definitely use all those courses on human computer interaction and bayesian networks and computer vision.
w-w sent me one of those friendster emails. i signed up for it way back in the summer when gita sent me that email. i never got into it. but i've decided to sit and figure out what makes it totally worthy of that cult following it seems to have. before it goes away on nov 4. ohyes.
i burned two pages of my diary yesterday. it was one of those 2am SAD-induced introspective moments that seemed to make sense. i wish i didn't regret it now. or at least i wish i knew what i'd written. because reading the remaining pages, i don't know what i wrote. i'm making my room seasonal affective disorder-proof. sometimes i wonder if i should really move to sweden if i need the sun so much.
this is the first sunday in a long, long time when i don't have a ton of things due. i should be happy and watching more movies at pleasant street. but for some reason i'm stressing out about what i'm forgetting. bah. it's almost like i can't do without the stress.
today was beautiful and made me want to write snailmail and send postcards and random other mail to people. since this week is less stressful than most others, i figure it's precisely what i should do.
if the second law of thermodynamics is satisfied anywhere, it's my room. it's like my own ecosystem. but today, we're experiencing negative entropy (not in strictly thermodynamic terms). because i'm hosting a prospective student tuesday night. all said, gold key is still one of the more worthwhile things i'm doing with my life. ditto with reslife, even though it annoys me at times.
when people post on the jolt about committing suicide, they never use their real name, and they seldom lie. while some people bitched about the "attention whores", there were others who stayed up really late posting nice messages on the forum. i'm glad that there's people like that at smith.
ramadan begins today. well not in massachusetts, because we're different, but in my book, it's ramadan. i miss my friends. i miss fasting with them and waiting for iftar. i miss date palms and walking on the beach in qurum. i was planning to go and see sawsan today, but decided that ramadan takes some adjustment. i'll probably see her next week. and to everyone else, ramadan mubarak.
i was speaking to a friend whom i don't see too much of these days and we decided to get some food downtown at amanouz with another friend of mine. after one of those conversations that made me feel completely awkward and naive and aimless (because in a nutshell, all i seemed to want to do with my life was travel and learn a bunch of languages and do lots and lots of AI research), my friend reminded me that the best things in life are free, and if everyone wasn't so materialistic and didn't have so many needs, the world would be a better place. i need to hang out with the idealistic fools/hippies some more. and my friend and i need to hang out more often and do homework in burton basement while listening to alejandro sanz.
nothing beats the dark chocolate at the chocolate emporium. and vietnamese coffee at the haymarket. oh and the hot chocolate too.
we now have iTunes for PCs. everyone else seems excited about it, but for some reason, i don't seem to care.
i have to petition to spend next semester abroad. because i couldn't get both my departments to sign off on that sheet before the deadline. the more i think about, the more sense it makes to stay here, and start doing the background work for my thesis/yearlong special studies which is definitely going to be on computer vision (because i am yet to find someone completely obsessed with neurolinguistic processing in the compsci department- maybe i should speak to Jill deViliers in the psych dept before i set things in stone). but edinburgh is edinburgh. and i think i could definitely use all those courses on human computer interaction and bayesian networks and computer vision.
w-w sent me one of those friendster emails. i signed up for it way back in the summer when gita sent me that email. i never got into it. but i've decided to sit and figure out what makes it totally worthy of that cult following it seems to have. before it goes away on nov 4. ohyes.
i burned two pages of my diary yesterday. it was one of those 2am SAD-induced introspective moments that seemed to make sense. i wish i didn't regret it now. or at least i wish i knew what i'd written. because reading the remaining pages, i don't know what i wrote. i'm making my room seasonal affective disorder-proof. sometimes i wonder if i should really move to sweden if i need the sun so much.
this is the first sunday in a long, long time when i don't have a ton of things due. i should be happy and watching more movies at pleasant street. but for some reason i'm stressing out about what i'm forgetting. bah. it's almost like i can't do without the stress.
today was beautiful and made me want to write snailmail and send postcards and random other mail to people. since this week is less stressful than most others, i figure it's precisely what i should do.