After five unsuccessful interviews I am now a proud employee of Barnes & Nobel, which is the biggest bookstore in the U.S. -- at least I think it is. I go in Monday for scheduling and paperwork. Guys my life is great and I love everything.

In a fit of EXTREME IMPULSIVENESS I signed up for the Homestuck Shipping Olympics @ hs_olympics because the comic MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA that is Homestuck does weird things to my heart. Anyway, I'm here asking you all to join in! My team (Karkat♥Terezi) and some others are already all filled up, but there are still a bunch of awesome teams open.


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Guys I have the best friends, and Sunday evening marked the end of 10 days of pretty intense socializing with awesome people like aeirol, eibheall, tommyrotter, and another completely awesome lady who has an LJ but has yet to use it/share what that name is. Suffice to say, she's awesome.

Some super cool things I've been up to recently:

• Beat Assassin's Creed II on the PC ( Read more... )

When I first read the modernists I was a junior in high school, and I pretty much feel for T.S. Eliot right away (my very first experience with Thomas Stearns was, interestingly enough, a Stephen King novel, but that's a story for another time). Anyway, I was really drawn to his poetry -- that, and I though his borderline pedantry to be exactly ( Read more... )

I've had an amazing weekend. I feel like writing this, because all too often I get caught up in the bad and forget to commemorate the good.

I spent Friday watching Avatar: The Last Airbender with my friends. This show is fun, and what's more, the animation is outstanding. What's more, I was not doing homework watching it with my friends! ( Read more... )

aeirol AND I ARE GOING TO SPAIN IN ABOUT TEN DAYS!!

Okay, yeah. We've just spent about 10 hours messing around with Delta, trying to figure out why the internet kept quoting prices around $800 then trying to charge us $1,400+ when we went to purchase the ticket. Then the voucher I had wouldn't work. We had to call in four times and thus were put on ( Read more... )

Since my brain likes to, at times, greatly resemble a sieve, I did not remember that Sarah Rees Brennan’s debut novel came out recently until lilian_cho posted about it today. I have only one truly salient thing to say on this matter: it does not matter if you do not like fantasy; it does not matter if you feel young adult fiction is beneath you; it does ( Read more... )

I failed to mention that this weekend Rachel (eibheall) and I drove up to Remus, Michigan for a folk music festival. I’ve returned, no worse for wear and with an urge to repeat the experience, minus the pile of schoolwork I tackled while there ( Read more... )

Aside from the brain damage my mother undoubtedly gave me when she dropped the hutch of the desk we were moving on my head, I’m all moved in. I am also at home, currently, for one more day. Tomorrow is a family cookout and Kelli who dad thinks is his second daughter anyway is joining us. It’s going to be fun ( Read more... )

My courses for next year ( Read more... )