Right. So, why is it that the year I go abroad, the most epic amounts of snow ever blanket Washington, DC, Georgetown calls not one or two but four consecutive snow days, and I am stuck in gloomy Britannia jealously eyeing the Facebook statuses of my friends back on the East Coast? Dear Impersonal Supreme Being, is this what I get for having ( Read more... )

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I have to get me and far too many of my earthly possessions (Chinese parents are always quite stingy with their money except when it comes to buying food; ergo, I now have a lot of it), but two very quick recs of things that I read last night while not packing!

gm_weasley wrote The Girl With Too Many Breasts, which is -- hold on to your hats, sirs and ( Read more... )

BARACK OBAMA WON AND IT WAS LIKE DELIVERANCE FROM ON HIGH BUT ONLY BETTER AND I CRIED AND BAWLED MY WAY THROUGH HIS VICTORY SPEECH AND THEN THE WHOLE OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WAS OUT IN THE STREETS TONIGHT I WALKED AND CHEERED AND WHOOPED MY WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE 1600 PENNSYLVANIA PRESIDENT WITH ALL OF MY FRIENDS BEST NIGHT ( Read more... )

My roommate and I got up at 5:30 this morning to meet with some folks at the College Democrats in Fake Northern Virginia to do some visibility -- waving signs, reminding passer-bys to vote, polls in VA close at 7pm, the whole routine. I have been up for four hours now and my slate of classes for the day has yet to begin. My brain is ( Read more... )

Stocks Plunge Again; Dow Under 8,500: All of this reminds me somewhat of the Barro-Gordon model I learned in my international finance course last semester. Granted, the game set up there was about inflation policy and how it interacts with the market, but it can be analogised to the current situation on hand. Policy undertaken by governments and ( Read more... )

Hello, flist! If you happen to be in the vicinity of an internet connection right now and are in need of some kickass music, do wander over to http://www.georgetownradio.com and accidentally click on the "Listen Live!" button; the voices of Virginia and her friend Katherine will be there to keep you company until 8pm. :)

Signing off, V.M. Bell

God damn, I have never struggled so much to finish an exam in my life. For those who don't know what my handwriting is like, it is best described as small, cramped, and requiring a lot of hard pressing against the paper (after I write a full sheet of notes in ballpoint pen, it curls into a perfectly cylinder -- no, I am not joking). Combine this ( Read more... )

( ...or perhaps you've not been studying enough (screencap under the cut) )

I normally don't write posts like this, but there is something within me that is trying very hard not to bubble over with frustration, and clearly, I'm failing very badly. The usual disclaimer applies: I don't meant to offend or convert -- I am simply a college student letting off some steam rather than studying for her multivariable calculus exam ( Read more... )