i am pleased to announce that i just ordered this GRE book for myself. i think it's in large part because of today's dailyOM:

Many people, in heeding the guidance of their souls, find themselves contemplating goals that seem outrageous or unattainable. In the mind's eye, these individuals stand at the edge of a precipice and look out over the ( Read more... )

i have no idea how, exactly, i missed knuckle down, but i did. it came out, i bought it, and i don't think i ever even listened to it. like, at all. i'm sure it's because of educated guess, what a disappointment the one (and only, i think) time i listened to that was (especially the title track, le grande sigh ( Read more... )

okay. see, here's the thing. i'm not a terribly creative person. no, really, no matter how much you might argue with me, it's true. i'm not inventive, or imaginative. i don't draw or paint or write (other than this nonsense). i don't make music or even read anymore. i am lazy, and i fall into pretty much anything that doesn't require too much ( Read more... )

i went out with jenna last night.

this means that i did NOT watch the season premieres of the office or grey's anatomywhich means that i have had to avoid a number of lj-cuts and sites i'd ordinarily frequent all day ( Read more... )

you know, everyone talks about the big episodes of grey's anatomy. the super bowl ep, with the bomb. the train crash ep. the finales ( Read more... )

so i did buy grey's anatomy and the office both today. there was some serious debate in my head as to whether the office would come into play.....but really, why not ( Read more... )

okay, a little backstory. when i was in my senior year of high school, i had pretty much finished all the required courses to graduate. i mean, i still had to take a full year's worth of classes, but the way my high school's requirements were set up, the only subjects you actually had to take four years of to graduate were (i think) english and gym ( Read more... )

do you know what i love the most about the second movement of rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto? how hopeful it sounds. it's just so amazing, the chord progressions. i should get a score and analyse it. i mean, that would raise my geekiness to like, a whole new level, yes. but it would be a fucking awesome project to undertake......and it might ( Read more... )

THEY MOVED GREY'S ANATOMY TO THURSDAYS -- AGAINST CSI (because cbs wouldn't be stupid enough to move CSI!) -- AND SURROUNDED IT BY CRAP.

i'm boycotting. that's it.

mwah.
~a

i have had so many WHAT THE -- ?!?!?!?! moments during tonight's grey's anatomy, i wouldn't know where to begin if i tried ( Read more... )