So, I went to the Greek Festival with my volleyball team last night. As we watched kids our age doing traditional greek dances, I was acutely aware of my own lack of culture. As a non-religious, white American, there's nothing I can really can call "part of my heritage." All holidays that could remotely fall into that category (Christmas, ( Read more... )

    A small bird flew into our window today. I watched it ricochet off the glass and land on our back porch. It sat there, befuddled, blinking. I watched it for a few minutes, waiting for it to gather its wits and fly away. But it just sat there, little and yellow and confused.

I ran downstairs to grab a box, hoping it would still be there when ( Read more... )

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   Dang, I suck. Lost Rambo in my battle with May, caught a Roselia, lost her in my battle against Wally, and died while fighting a Psychic. Game Over.

Kirk has not lost hope though. It's back to Johto, where, armed with Capone the Cyndaquil, he faced the challenge again. Professor Elm has a job for him...

STATUS UPDATE:

Badges: 2

Pokemon:

Rambo, Lv. 17 Beautifly
Helga, Lv. 12 Magikarp

and introducing...
MELVIN, Lv. 13 Gulpin

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R.I.P. Hive Queen. You had so much potenial. And could Cut and Flash. Damn.

And with only two pokemon, one a useless fish, Kirk enters Slateport City.

     I've taken on the Nuzlocke challenge guys. For those of you who don't know, the Nuzlocke challenge originated with this webcomic: www.nuzlocke.com/. It consists of two basic rules:

1) If a pokemon faints, you must release it. It has, for all intents and purposes, died.
2) You may only catch one pokemon per area, and it must be the first one you ( Read more... )

I've been in New Haven. Leaving for New York tomorrow. Hopefully we'll see some shows!

I've decided to apply to Harvard. The tour and info session really impressed me. But, we'll see whether or not I get in.

On my trip, for the first time, I've 1) gone into a comic book shop/ bought comics, and 2) sat at a bar!

Exciting times :)

Hello LiveJournal, long time no post. As some of you may know, I'm in Cambridge right now. My parents and I are looking at colleges on the east coast. We've just been hanging out so far, but the plan is to visit Tufts tomorrow and take a tour of Harvard the next day (we've been walking around Harvard a lot, but we decided to take an actual tour as ( Read more... )

My house just got a new dishwasher. Usually I am quite adverse to change, however, I am rather more adverse to washing dishes again after taking them out of the dishwasher. That's just stupid ( Read more... )