Today was the day of much fuckwittage at work--people came in with ridiculously difficult jobs, and stayed way past close. This one woman wanted double-sided colour copies of a legal-sized brochure. When I mentioned this to Dana, he turned around, stared at me, and said "Even *I* can tell that's difficult and expensive and annoying." Yes. ( Read more... )

Japanese class amusement. We were in pairs asking each other what we did over the weekend. Then our teacher had us tell the class what our partner had done ( Read more... )

So it's been a good week for quotes all round. Here we present the ridiculous things NU professors say ( Read more... )

Spectacular quotes from my Modern Ireland prof this week ( Read more... )

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So, yesterday was the first day of classes. I got into Japanese, YAYNESS! Although I realised today that if I don't spend about 2 hours a night memorizing, that class is going to kill me, because the hiragana all blur together. I can pick out a, i, u, e, o, ku, and shi. There are eight other hiragana we "learned" yesterday that I confuse like ( Read more... )

Quote du jour: "Sorry, me almost pulling down your shirt was totally unintentional--as you know, I don't usually use my left ring finger to pull down girls' shirts"--Dana ( Read more... )

So everyone's back in town now, and we had a mass outing to Underworld last night. Impressions are as follows ( Read more... )

Northwestern officially has the most bad-ass professors ever ( Read more... )

Updating from a library computer very quickly, just wanted to record this lovely little instance ( Read more... )