I cleaned my room yesterday for the first time in months. I have to give credit where credit is due: the State of the Union got me energized and ready to go. Obama, as much as I may be skeptical of his potential for success at this juncture, gives damn good speech. I wish I was even half the orator that man is. I particularly enjoyed the ( Read more... )

So I haven't updated in a while. Yale sort of hit me like a sack of bricks. But I'm back on my game now, both with work and play. I've got a nice balance struck between the two (i.e. both yesterday and today I read a hundred pages and went out for most of the night, getting sufficiently buzzed on both occasions, one of which had proceeds go to ( Read more... )

The title refers to the process of having your paper torn to infinitesimal shreds by a holier-than-thou professor. He still gave me a High Pass (the Yale graduate school's grading system is weird, but an HP is roughly the equivalent of a B), but the paper is literally red ink start to finish, and only one comment is even remotely positive. And ( Read more... )

Wow. Back in New Haven, and somehow it didn't really hit me how much I have to do already until I got here. Already spent $142 on textbooks, tomorrow I have to go spend $162 on course packets, which are essentially overpriced photocopies that we have to buy through this print center (meaning they can charge exorbitant rates and nobody can do a ( Read more... )

Wow, I can't believe I'm finally on this side of the semester and of Christmas. The holiday was fantastic. Had a great week with the family and Cynshen. Sad not to get to spend more time with them, but it was fun while it lasted. Also got some good Christmas loot: a Blu-ray player, Inglourious Basterds on DVD, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood ( Read more... )

Here I am. Almost five in the morning. But I've got that on-top-of-the-world feeling going strong. I'm armed with the Glee, Volume 2 soundtrack that I got from our Secret Santa swap this evening. Which means I've got a lengthy Glee playlist on continual loop basically. Overriding even my usual December = Christmas song trend. And I watched ( Read more... )

Finally, finally got to page four in paper number three, which was my goal for the day. In theory, if I keep up this pace, I'll be done with this paper by Thursday/Friday, and then I'll be able to move on to the fourth and final paper. Of course, in the midst of frantic paper-writing to get to that point, I also need to edit papers one and two ( Read more... )

So, everyone and their mother in the entertainment world is putting together "best of the year" and "best of the decade" lists right now. And so, of course, being the ever-obsessed entertainment whore, I decided to put together my own Best of the 2000s lists for your enjoyment and/or mockery ( Read more... )

Basically, it's mid-term paper flurry, and I need a break. A piccola pausa, they say in Italian. So I'm on here to share with you the more exciting elements of the upcoming week, rather than to continuously lament the existence of essays. First on the agenda is today's Dean's Holiday Reception, which will be pretty chill and free food and drink ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a couple weeks, but the hiatus has mostly been the result of Thanksgiving Break and the relative lack of internet access that accompanied it (granted, I always have the internet now, thanks to my Blackberry, but I don't like doing LJ posts on there, since it's so time-consuming ( Read more... )