I saw this comic recently ( Read more... )

I found this worksheet about exercise in a stack of my papers from first or second grade, and my eyes bugged out for a moment before I broke down laughing.

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My earliest memory is actually almost the memory of a memory: my fifth grade teacher had us write the story of our earliest memories, and I've remembered what I wrote even as the memory itself became less and less vivid. I was three years old sitting behind my mother on her bike as she sped down the steep hills of our neighborhood, and it was ( Read more... )

I'm spending this week in Nebraska, sorting through the countless boxes of papers and mementos from my childhood that are cluttering up my mother's house. In looking through my old school papers, I've come to an interesting realization: almost everything from my math and science classes ends up in the trash, but I've eagerly sought out and kept ( Read more... )

I just got a letter from Duke University. Apparently, they want my DNA ( Read more... )

While I was visiting family in Nebraska this winter, I found a couple of pictures of myself as a kid, both involving music in one way or another. They had a lot of sentimental value, so I took the opportunity to scan copies for myself. Since I happen to think they're kinda cute I thought I'd share them here, but out of consideration for others I' ( Read more... )

During my senior year of high school, my English teacher required us to submit a story or poem to the school's literary magazine From the Depths. I thought the assignment was silly (and was probably pretty dismissive of the magazine, too), so I wrote a "poem" over lunch and handed it in. To the great amusement of everyone who was in on the joke, ( Read more... )

[I'm still avoiding LJ because I'm terribly busy, but I want to get this news out there ( Read more... )

Now that I've survived my last week of class, senior finals, and senior grades, I can finally pause long enough to comment on last weekend. Alumni Weekend was great: I got to catch up with lots of friends I hadn't seen (or sometimes even heard from at all) in ages, I got to see several wonderfully cute little kids (whose antics I usually only hear ( Read more... )

Ten years ago last night, I proposed to Kim at the end of our last Mudd Occasional Ball. It's a bit scary to think that it's been that long. Definitely one of my better decisions ( Read more... )