It's been three weeks, I think, since an update, so here I am out of some weird sense of obligation to lj, even though I don't have a whole lot to say. Is it odd to feel responsible towards a site? Anyway.

I'm currently reading "Ender's Game" (which is not as bad as some people would have me believe...I'm really liking it, actually), and " ( Read more... )

Uh-oh. I think I like Keane...what's next, Coldplay? How my standards have fallen.

Just some photos from my trip to New York. Well, okay, lots of (mainly pointless) photos. So you've been warned.
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I wound up getting about five hours of sleep last night, but on the bright side, my paper proposal didn't totally bomb, so I'm actually pretty content. Inger and the grad students made lots of suggestions, but that's a far cry from hysterical laughter over my ideas. So that's nice. Also, Naomi (one of the students) gave a long presentation on the ( Read more... )

I was reading this book for my Civil War class and came across a guy called Jubal Early. Seriously. I had to read it over a couple of times because I kind of thought I'd gone crazy for a moment there. So, I don't know if all Firefly fans know this already and I'm just out of the loop, but apparently he was a noted Confederate general...he didn't ( Read more... )

This weekend was pretty good. On Saturday I went to Griffith Park with Medessa and the kids. They have a bunch of old trains on exhibit there, so we basically followed Nathaniel around while he "fixed" them. The scary thing is, he's three, and yet knows more about trains than I ever will (he can identify the boiler, for example. Jeez). O.K., I'm ( Read more... )

So. Very. Bored. Too bad the other guy in the office is just about as talkative as I am (that's to say, not talkative at all). I can never tell if it's better to leave people that you don't know very well alone, or try and talk to them and most likely weird them out. Especially with guys, since they just look blank most of the time.

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Phew. P&P didn't win anything. There's still hope for the world.

...oh, and Jon Stewart is pretty much God. That is all.

Finally have my flute back, yay. I've been practicing various stuff with Paula and by myself; luckily I haven't forgotten quite everything. Besides that, I've just been visiting family and various high school people (which is, sadly, kinda awkward...oh, well). On Friday, Stephanie and Paula and I drove around looking at a bunch of vintage stores ( ( Read more... )

Yay, I'm done with finals. Oceanography went pretty well, considering the fact that I didn't study as much as I should have. Thank goodness they recycled questions from the midterms, that's all I have to say ( Read more... )