There's a Hebrew phrase used for round birthdays which I tried in vain to imitate here; it's a nice, bland little phrase that's just this coded way of saying "the first digit of your age has changed", and literally means - kind of - area code switch ( Read more... )

I'm really glad I didn't post anything yesterday - I was really bummed about school and politics and the weird noises my laptop's making and everything, and was going to make a short an bitter post about it all. I had an hour-long presentation due today, for which I stayed up until 8:30AM working on, went to sleep for an hour, and woke up to go to ( Read more... )

Okay, it's 4 hours into 2009 and obviously there's no point in me trying to make a resolution about keeping better sleeping hours, because, well. It's four hours into 2009 ( Read more... )