So I haven't updated this since.....late April, early May? Oops. So much for keeping in touch with this thing ( Read more... )

I just found out that I'm going to Cairo for the fall. I'm excited.

But now I need to go work on an Arabic Presentation.

Oh, so we're having a hurricane apparently. Laugh at my concrete grating now, why don't you?

So I have this "reaction paper" for my public policy and bureaucracy class to do. My instructions consist of "Reaction paper on "What is Modernism" due. I am looking more for intellectual engagement than thoroughness in covering a topic." And the prof saying that he didn't want anything ordinary. We still haven't actually had a real class yet, ( Read more... )

This afternoon, while my mind was wandering during a rather dull segment on predictability using the normal function model of statistic with the sample variance rather than the known variance (or something like that) I started to think about what purpose this little journal serves. I basically narrowed the purpose of all of my entries down into ( Read more... )

"You already cut my effingoak root!" said the nasal botanist to the shoveler.

As silly as it may seem to have two spring breaks, I must say that it is a wonderful idea. The first one was almost exhausting, with going home and then Chicago, but doing nothing over this one is wonderful. I sat on a swing in the quad and did nothing for almost half an hour. I love being unproductive ( Read more... )

5:50....and I've been up since 3.....after getting to sleep at 1......after being woken up at 7 this morning....after going to sleep at 2.....after getting less than 5 hours of sleep the night before that. And now I believe I have bronchitis.

I've spent the past weekend wondering if I've completely screwed over my life. When I was in kindergarden, Mrs. Reynolds asked us what we wanted to be in 20 years; I said an architect, and that stayed true until middle school, when all of a sudden I gave up on it (maybe it was my failure to produce anything decent in my art (meaning painting) ( Read more... )

3 days and 2 midterms until spring break - I just might make it ( Read more... )