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Work
I am getting officially raped with work this week. Between spending all of last weekend in DC (worth it) and my parents spending this weekend in Chicago (not going to be worth it), BA work, a large (10-15 page) midterm paper due on this coming Monday, a Japanese midterm due Thursday, a new book for English, and the parental claws being dug deep ( Read more... ) -
New computer!
So my new computer finally materialized in the mail the other day. This makes me infinitely happy, and unspeakably irritated at the fact that I left my external hard drive in South Carolina. Unfortunately, until I can go through with the file transfer sometime around Thanksgiving, this means that I'm stuck using the old one for most of my major ( Read more... ) -
I WAS RIGHT
There's glass in our bar cabinet that the renovators painted over. After finally succumbing to curiosity, I was able to peel and scrape away a fist-sized chunk of paint from one of the lower panels and stare out the other side at Julie. Under it all, the cabinet is a beautiful white wood frame with glass panels and stainless steel hardware. All ( Read more... ) -
Seriously scary shit
For those of you whom I haven't spoken to recently, there was a bit of a scare on our block on Sunday night. While Garett and I were on campus, MK, Julie, and Leslie all heard what they took to be a domestic dispute somewhere around our building. There was screaming, the sound of punches being thrown, and a hysterical woman. They called 911, the ( Read more... ) -
Political activism in Gen Q... qua?
It never ceases to amaze me that the spirit of political activism which characterized our parents' generation (in my family especially, since my parents were both early Baby Boomers) seems to have vanished from the cultural landscape of our own. It's become marginalized. The spirit's still alive and well in some circles, but there doesn't seem to ( Read more... ) -
Random observation
I really don't understand how to interact with people. Once in a while I have a real Aspy moment, despite the fact I'm not an Aspy, and I don't really feel bad about it. Even my friends aren't immune to my awkwardness. It commands all.
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I saw Jared's film premier tonight, and it occurred to me that I haven't had a solid existential crisis in a good, long time. Sending G off this afternoon might've been enough to trigger one, and switching routines back to "campus life" and realizing how little I really know of the people around me has been harrowing even in the first few hours. ( Read more... ) -
Kill...
I woke up this morning, at 7 a.m. sharp, to the sound of our janitor and his eastern European friend making a huge racket. Given the cacaphony and my deliriousness, I'm not sure what they were doing, but it could have been either ( Read more... ) -
Dance, yaro, dance!
You know, every time I think the internet gets boring, something like this crops up.
The dance is the ending to an uber-popular anime currently airing in Japan called The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, and it's become a worldwide phenomenon. The song is unbearably catchy, and the dance just makes you want to try it.
Moreover, the craze has hit ( Read more... ) -
Insanity!
Almost the end of first week, and still no intarwebs in the new apartment. At the very least, the situation has forced me to get off my ass and get to campus a bit early to check my e-mail. The apartment itself is lovely, with 2000 square feet of newly-painted glory, simply waiting for its first good kegger.
Otherwise I'm not in awful shape. The ( Read more... )
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