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Dear self,

YOU SIGNED UP FOR THIS.

It's time to suck it up and let it go!

xoxo

Walking home through a drinking district in the evening, a middle-aged man on a bicycle was coming toward me, and then stopped right in front of me. I thought I was in his way or something and started to go around him, but noticed him saying something to me and took one of my headphones out ( Read more... )

The media clearly has a vendetta against the DPJ. It's less apparent in regular news broadcasts, but the frequency with which they pick up anti-administration issues and with which they poll for (un)popularity numbers must be deeply skewed ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I received one page of paper with my schedule for that day and today. Among other things, I found out that we were to hear presentations on the following topics:

M College Solar Decathlon Team (one hour)
Food Webs, Phosphorous, and the Lake C Watershed (one hour)
Invasive Plant and Insect Species (20 mins)
Monitoring Frog Populations ( ( Read more... )

I consider fucking up people who say things like "Japan deserves it, the tsunami is revenge for Pearl Harbor" a perfectly admirable way of showing your support for disaster victims. Please make sure this kind of ignorance isn't around you.

I'm thankful that I don't seem to know anyone with such deplorable character.

I love America, but this is ( Read more... )

I've been told twice this week that I look like I'm in my thirties. I am going to destroy the next person who insinuates the same ( Read more... )

Like
French pharmaceutical company people I interpreted for this afternoon, who were full of questions and very precise but also incredibly pleasant and quick to compliment. Also, damn, but European men are stylish and generally pretty hot ( Read more... )

Normally, I am good about sleeping a lot, so I guess I don't interrupt my REM cycles as much and don't wake up mid-dream. I don't often remember my dreams, but even when I do, they're usually just a little strange. I don't often have nightmares, anyway ( Read more... )

On Skype

Mom: It looks like your dad wants to talk to you, so I'm going to switch.

Dad: What's with that ugly face? You make such an ugly expression whenever I come on, you don't want to talk to me. Look at that ugly face. What a disrespectful daughter. Why haven't you wished me a happy Mid-Autumn Festival yet? It's Mid-Autumn Festival today, DON ( Read more... )