"Two men walk into a bar. The first man orders a scotch and soda. The second man remembers something he'd forgotten, and it doubles him over with pain. He falls to the floor, shaking, and then through the floor and into the earth. He looks back up at the first man, but he doesn't call out to him. They're not that close ( Read more... )

I saw Georgetown University today. It was beautiful. It reminded me a lot of Oxford. There is like a snowball's chance in hell that I could get in, but even if I did two credit hours there costs more than a year's tuition at NCF. It is like the 4th most expensive school in the US. My dad would try to work something out but I dunno if I could ask ( Read more... )

I'm in D.C. right now. The stay and drive through the Carolinas was nice, if it weren't for the people I might want to live there. Virginia was really boring. Dad and I got through it by making up a new West Wing episode in which the senior staff gets kidnapped by hillbillies ( Read more... )

On Wednesdays I have my seminar down at College Hall (the pink mansion by the bay). It is quite old and thus has many quirks. Today the College Hall quirk was that our classroom didn't have a doorknob. This became very apparent when we couldn't get out of the room during our break. We actually got trapped in our classroom. I climbed out onto the ( Read more... )

I was digging through old documents, looking for my birth certificate and all (I was born at 11:57, the Germans are very exact). I found four copies of a certificate in German that I can't use here and couldn't find the one I need. Go figure. I also found out I didn't get a social security number until 1993 and it looks like my name is misspelled ( Read more... )

So I watched Studio 60 this week. It seems to have gotten bad reviews but I actually really liked it. I thought it was funny and clever. The whole Danny/Jordan thing was one of the only TV romances that didn't bug me, and Danny and Matt had an awesomely sweet bromance going on. I was sad it didn't have a second season but I can see how it might ( Read more... )

I have written a number of entires in the past few months but I always delete them before I finish. We'll see how far this one gets ( Read more... )

Classes at New College have started up. I'm taking Statistics, Victorian Fiction, American Environmental history, Race, Class, and Gender in the Americas, and a pre-thesis tutorial ( Read more... )

I SATed all six of my classes. All of my reviews are good or decent though my American military history evaluation included a comment that I did good work but was obviously capable of doing more (how would he know?!) and he said I seemed to think "good" was "good enough" or something on those lines. Ouch ( Read more... )

Classes at New College start tomorrow. It is a little intimidating because I have decided to take a rather hard course load this semester. I will be taking Transitions from War to Peace, Politics of the EU, Contemporary French History, Carolingian Empire, American Wars and Peacemaking and an advanced German tutorial ( Read more... )