Booster Gold has a history of frequently redesigning his costume. After his original suit from The Future was destroyed in a battle with Doomsday during the whole Death of Superman thing, he kept getting new suits in varying degrees of ugliness throughout the '90s. Fortunately, he appears to be back in his "classic" suit for good now, with ( Read more... )

It's the second week of school and I've pretty much settled in with my three house-mates. We're kind of like the Golden Girls except not old. And we live in small-town Ohio instead of Miami. And I will never be as cool as Bea Arthur ( Read more... )

In my second-to-last sociology class, we were discussing eating disorders. My professor (who is Nepalese, BTW) asked "Why do you think that the African-American community remains largely unaffected by anorexia ( Read more... )

Mr. Haynes: (Gestures at a graph showing immigration to the United States) You can see that there was a big dip in the 1930s and 40s. This was mostly due to the Great Depression. World War II was also in there. That pretty much involved the whole world.

Me: *headdesk ( Read more... )

I was planning on skipping my four-hour-long sociology class tomorrow so I would have time to finish a paper that's due on Tuesday. However, after reading this week's assignment for sociology, I'm not sure I can afford not to be there ( Read more... )

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We've been talking about the Vietnam Conflict lately in my "Current World Problems" class. Somehow, the class has morphed from "Current World Problems" to "Modern American Conflict", but it's still pretty interesting so I'm not complaining ( Read more... )

My major accomplishment of the week thus far has been learning to knit with double-pointed needles. I once read someone describe it as "wrestling with an octopus" and I have to concur. This is some hardcore knitting. CIRCULAR NEEDLES ARE FOR THE WEAK!

We watched Fog of War today in Current World Problems. Amazingly, this meant we got through an ( Read more... )

I'm looking forward to going to class tomorrow morning because my political science professor is insaneI had been warned by a friend who took one of his classes before that "He's too conservative, even for me." This was one of my Republican friends. Well, she's actually quite moderate, she just likes to call herself a Republican. But I digress ( Read more... )

My English presentation involving the drawings from my last post went well. I got an "A" on it and my teacher thought they were hilarious. In fact, she asked me to email a copy of them to her because she wants to post them in the English graduate student offices because she thinks her colleagues will find them funny. I have a feeling that this is ( Read more... )