My first lj poll! I hope I make it correctly!

My brain is on strike. It refuses to make decisions for me. Please help! :)

Update: This is what I missed (but for the very good cause of mental health maintenance):

TROUBLE MAKERS
(GUANGRONGDE FENNU)
(2006, China) Directed by Cao Baoping TROUBLE MAKERS
(GUANGRONGDE FENNU)
(2006, China) Directed by Cao Baoping

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I'm making a Faith-Buffy face as I type this.

It's "Blog Action Day." In many ways I am a lazy but easily excitable person, which means that when being "active" doesn't involve much actual "action," I try to play a good liberal American. Here is my pretty pathetic post about the environment.

Things I want to do:
* Use public transportation more often ( Read more... )

I'm working, honest I am! This is just a quick break!

Actually I'm going to do what all humanities students (that I know of) eventually do when deadlines press too hard -- plagiarize him/herself. So this post doesn't contain any recent news. Instead, it is a concatenation of accumulated dribs and drabs that probably make little sense either together ( Read more... )

Tonight is Bones night. I will earn my right to drool by working hard until then! Right after this eensy teensy nap...

Yesterday was long but satisfying. I love visiting an experienced teacher's class -- I learned so much from watching LM lead a discussion. TWO students came to office hours! I LOVE them (but not in an unprofessional way ;) )! Class ( Read more... )

Class was wonderful today! Or at least it seemed that way from my perspective. I know that I have a lot still to learn as a teacher, which is part of what makes the endeavor so exciting. Some of you will scoff at this, but I am, by nature, a "lazy" person -- I rarely do much more than what is necessary. This made me a good student, but is not so ( Read more... )

I woke up ecstatic today.

You read right: ecstatic. It had been storming since mid-afternoon yesterday, and I fell asleep to the sound of rain hitting the pavement, and the occasional slide of a car across slick surfaces. I love rain. Someday I will again live in a place where it rains more frequently than in LA.

That started me on a productive day. ( Read more... )

She offers and accepts help gracefully.
She does not hesitate to try new experiences.
She loves all living things.
She knows how to take care of herself, and is starting to take care of me, and doesn't mind me trying to take care of her.
She is concerned but not stressed about money and time.
She delights in beautiful rituals and artifacts.
She is ( Read more... )

The final
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Yes, I do study film! Not filmmaking (although that was my undergraduate degree) but "Cinema and Media Studies," which means the history, theory, and criticism of all kinds of motion-picture arts and sciences. What do I plan to do with this knowledge? I have no idea. Definitely not making movies, excepting perhaps silly shorts about my sweet turtle ( Read more... )

I sold my bicycle today. The balcony looks emptier.

This is the third bike I've owned. The first was one of the most wonderful gifts I have ever received from my father. It was a single speed child's bike, with a black frame and yellow decals -- to me, in the first grade, it was among the most "big" and "real" things in my life. I did not have to ( Read more... )