A creepy disgusting man groped me in the train station on the way to work ( Read more... )

Is it rude to tell a woman her dog is cute but not mention her child?

For the record her child was cute, I was just afraid that at that point it would sound like an afterthought.

She stopped me on the street and asked me if my name was Irene. All look same, that's right.

Back from lunch with Henrietta Fore. She is such a pleasant woman! All ( Read more... )

I feel bad when I ignore homeless people who are begging for money, and I feel bad when I do give them some change ( Read more... )

For futari_love:

Selective pieces of Duet July 2008

Kame to Jin:
Akanishi's shoe size is 26.5cm-- the same as mine.  This is interesting, isn't it?  He's pretty tall, so it seems like he would be over 27cm... (laugh).  And, now for a question.  What do you do when you're at home?  It sounds like you've been watching a lot of DVDs, but do you have any ( Read more... )

Today was my day off.  I still ended up spending most of the day at the Capitol, but continued my supermarket search in the afternoon.

( the morning-- really really cool things )

I went to take notes from the Boston Public Library copy of Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide because I had only read the first half last week.

The book talks about the American unwillingness to intervene in humanitarian causes from the Armenian genocide to "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and ends with this quote:
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I filed my acceleration petition today to graduate in December of this year. To really be this close to home stretch is a strange feeling, but not a bad one. I've been looking forward into applications for Japanese programs at Keio and Waseda for spring 2009, and that brings with it its own set of concerns..... I want this so so so muchMy education ( Read more... )

But, really, not as often as you would expect of a girl at college surrounded by 2000+ other women. I think about the utter lack of Y chromosome in my life mostly when I'm out. Looking around in trains and at events for people who are my type is fun, and, I suppose, a little calming. At least I have a healthy fantasy life ( Read more... )

Dear People of the World:

"alot" is not a word. It is "a lot." Two words. Two wordsssssssssss. Please. The little grammar/spelling freak that still does live inside me dies a little bit each time an adult English speaker tries to pull an "alot" on me.

Am I wrong???? Do British people spell it "alot"??? Why do so many people still do it ( Read more... )

I was carded for the first time in my life today at CVS buying cough syrup.

Cough syrup? Really? This is such a sad world ( Read more... )