So a girl got robbed at gunpoint on Sunday night outside my friends' apartment. The boy lives there, too. It happened at 9:20, 20 minutes after I'd arrived there on my bike. It was disconcerting for me. I talked to the boy, I talked to the aforementioned friends, friends who don't live there, friends who don't even go to the university, my old ( Read more... )

I think that I get upset about trivial things, things that maybe I won't care about a few weeks down the line, because I'm scared of other things. It's something I'm almost always ashamed about later, that kind of shame where you doubt your place in the very vague category of Mostly-Good Human Beings on the basis of selfishness (or self- ( Read more... )

So I felt bad that I haven't been taking Ceri-chan around with me to a lot of places, so I brought him along on a recent trip to the history museum with The Boy.

Few people will care about this. These pictures are for the lovely isaacblack , who made him with love and her own two hands. <3<3

( Peektures. )

Two earthquakes happened and I didn't notice.

I wish I were kidding. I'm really not.

The first was this morning at about 5:00 about 120 miles west of where I am. Apparently, it was a 5.2-magnitude earthquake. My roommate said her bed started banging against the wall. I slept through the entire thing. All of it. The News says it was the ( Read more... )

I've been spending a lot of time these past weeks worrying about not being knowledgeable enough to write a research proposal. I sent in my first draft to my potential research mentor (and the grad student I'd be working with), and was worried for a good amount of time afterwards that they'd open it up and realize that good grief this person is way ( Read more... )

Taken from the Wikipedia entry on the .fm domain country code hereIntended use: Entities connected with Federated States of Micronesia ( Read more... )

S-switch! I don't like the old name now, and I'm not willing to pay $12 for a rename token, I guess?

In any case, kenderlord and the boy are making latkes. They smell so good right now, and all I've had to eat today was a bowl of noodles and part of a cold, leftover sandwich. We don't have any applesauce right now, but hopefully he'll be able to get a ( Read more... )

So I learned today that ociting is allowed in my residential building. I don't know what this means either, but judging from the suspicious gaps between some of the letters, I can assume that it once said, "Soliciting Not Allowed," before someone decided to get "creative."

I'm sad I didn't wind up doing Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. Oh, ( Read more... )

So I ran out of Ratatissues, as the boy calls them. Back in August, my mother bought me tissues that came in a Ratatouille-print box, but now it's spent. (Actually, I may have a back-up, come to think of it ( Read more... )

So. Here I am. Posting!

Today I had my last Biology midterm. I choose not to question why they decided to place our last midterm about a week before the final -- mostly because I don't want to think about it anyway?

I've been listening to this ridiculous song by Jonathan Coulton (whose very funny song "I Feel Fantastic" was the subject of a PopSci ( Read more... )