I can't believe I've never told this on here, but I couldn't find it just now, so I have to do it now. (FYI, if you compare this with my 21 November 2007 entry, you'll find an interesting similarity.) This story---wait, is this really a story? It's really more of a slice of life, a piece of Americana. Wait, no, it's not quite that, it's more ( Read more... )

well everyone, it's been fun, but i'm pretty much done with public posts. if you want to be added to my friends list (you have to be an LJ member), make a comment on this post. this is mostly cos i don't want prospective employers to be able to google me and find out everything about my life, but also cos i'm going back to writing about the ( Read more... )

Thanks to abrandilyn for this link. I'm so proud of my country right now, and so happy with my city for understanding it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEA5ue2Be4

Take just a moment to picture what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the nomination. Just think about it. For starters, McCain's awful campaign would have gone against Clinton's awful campaign, and with the help of the corporate, conservative media (which he had anyway), McCain would have won. We wouldn't have Palin as VP, but we ( Read more... )

We won. We knew in advance that we'd win, but that doesn't matter because WE WON ( Read more... )

three of my last four entries (not including this one) have been entered in at 11:40 am. this is a complete coincidence. WEIRD.

You probably won't care about this wonderful New Yorker article about translating Russian, but I do. Of course it must discuss Constance Garnett, and it's rather wonderful to find out exactly why I've been warned against her. (Among other flaws, she apparently skipped over words and phrases that she didn't know rather than try to figure out what ( Read more... )

yeah, honestly, i don't know. i've had that question a lot, but i don't really have an answer yet. i need to find a job, figure out where i'm going to live, figure out what the rhythms of my life are going to be, get on something remotely resembling a regular sleep schedule, start eating (well), etc. that's sort of what i'm focusing on. i ( Read more... )

hi y'all, i just wanted to let you know that i'm back in Portland, nice and safe. i don't know what's next, other than a hike today (forest park, with chris and my parents' bitch, potterette) then dinner at burritos. i'm excited ( Read more... )

here we are, the last fully day of my trip. and it's actually quite late at night (don't look at the timestamp; it'll just scare you), so the day is long over. i fly back to portland tomorrow. i'm not sure what to make of it ( Read more... )