As some of you know, this spring I applied for a very prestigious and large scholorship from the National Institute of Health. I worked really hard on the application, and my hopes are high. Today I recieved a disconcertingly small envalope from NIH. My hopes were all but dashed! Surely this is THE small envalope, heralding my rejection? But ( Read more... )

So I arrived here in Bloomington yesterday at around 2:30 in the afternoon after a couple of plane rides. I usually fly Southwestern, which has a checked bag limit of 5 bags before they start charging you extra. Since I haven't flown on any other airline in years, it didn't even occur to me to check what the checked bag limit was for United. I ( Read more... )

I'm done, I'm done, donedonedonedone! I finished my last exam at 7:00 yesterday evening, and now I have two wole days of freedom before I fly to Indiana for my summer job. Oh the packing ( Read more... )

So the Circus was a wild success. Friday and Saturday we had good turnouts, but tonight...oh man! We PACKED that place. There were people all over the place. I've heard nothing but good things, so I suspect it went quite well. I, unfortunately, was unable to ever actually see any of it, because I had to be back stage acting as a sort of people ( Read more... )

Everyone in the Oberlin area should come see OCircus this weekend. We open tomorow at 7:30, and then we have a show on Saturday at 2, and on Sunday at 7:30. See contact improvisation, see juggling, see contact juggling, see poi, see stilging (that's me!), see unicycle riding, and ball balancing, and all kinds of crazy other crap! Entry is FREE ( ( Read more... )

So the Gilbert and Sullivan show is now completely over. All I have to worry about in terms of shows now is the Circus. I'm their tech director, but since it's such a decentralized production, it's hard to get anything done. Also, we only have brief periods in the space every day this week, because other classes and such use it all day long. ( Read more... )

So I saw the new Hitchhiker's Guide movie on Friday night. Yes, I went on opening night. Yes I dressed in my pj's and a bathrobe, and carried a towel. All I really have to say is that it was extremely mediochre. That's really it. Nothing stood out. There were plenty of things that I didn't really like that much, and a few things that were ok ( Read more... )

It's snowing in Oberlin right now. That's all I have to say.

So I did eventually pick a word for my word biography, and I did write the paper. It was fun, actually. After many hours of sitting in front of the oed online, I settled on the word 'pretty.' A seemingly boring word with an above averagly interesting past. It originally meant wily and cunning around the eleventh century or so, and then ( Read more... )

Well, perhaps not geeks, necessarily, but anyway: I have to do a work biography for my "history and structure of the English language" class, and I'm having serious issues picking a word that is both cool, and has enough solid etymology to go on. It feels like all the words that interest me are so newfangled that it woulcn't make a very ( Read more... )