A couple years back, I bought a cool, iPhone-controlled helicopter for my dad off Groupon. Ever since then, I've gotten emails from the company about doing reviews for their products, but unfortunately never got to participate until now. I received a heating pad called the "My WarmPet" (Link to Amazon here) and was excited to try it out since the ( Read more... )

And next year, Jess will be living in... Nagasaki!! Hooray! I've been placed in a city called Matsuura in Nagasaki prefecture. I'm very excited because the city population is ideal, in my opinion (about 30,000) and it's supposed to be a gorgeous area. So the deal is sealed and as of August 5th, I'll be spending at least the next year of my ( Read more... )

So I know I haven't updated in a while, but I don't have too much to say. My thesis is progressing nicely and I start scanning people in exactly 1 week. Woo! Putting people in magnets!! My other classes are ok as well, but I'm just really enthralled with my research. The fact that it's WoW-based and that my advisor and grad student overseers are * ( Read more... )

I GOT INTO THE JET PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm absolutely going for sure. I just have to figure out where the hell they put me and I'm off to Japan. I'll be leaving in early August, right after Lecky and Nate's wedding.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Oh. My. Fucking. God. I walked into my advisor's room today to make a game plan for what I'd have to do, regarding the mandatory research project for neuroscience majors. He took me down to his lab, introduced me to his grad students and whatnot and started explaning the current projects they were working on. He explained each one briefly and ( Read more... )

Dad and I had fun tonight watching dudes do crazy shit with motorcycles. Good father-daughter bonding. That's really it. I love motocross. And the ballet. I'm going to read and then pass out. Long day of yard work and socializing with friends tomorrow...

So instead of playing as much WoW as I could be, I'm instead going on a sci-fi reading spree, which should have happened years ago. (Don't get me wrong, I'm still playing a fuckton of WoW, but my days are long and filled with nothing to do, which is beyond glorious.) I'm in the best mood I've been in for a long time. So far, I've read some Ray ( Read more... )

::nerds all over herself ( Read more... )

Backstory/context: So I'm playing in Matty G's game this term and a big part of the game involves different churches and priesthoods. For example, my character, Brodie, communes with Ithka of the Reincarnation Church and Katie C's character is a high priestess in the Enlightenment church.  So anyway, we were talking about previous campaigns where ( Read more... )

One of my '10 friends (Zach W) just called me "Granny J". I think I'm gonna go cry in a corner after I'm done laughing about it...