Spent all day lazing around. Finished Monohime's story in Muramasa and started Keisuke's. I have to figure out how to replay Momohime's storyline in the second level. Watched nearly all of Season 4 of HIMYM, which my brother bought on Amazon on Cyber Monday. Discovered I don't have access to my MCAT training videos, which is going to make the rest ( Read more... )

SO I RANTED ON LJ THE OTHER NIGHT AND NOW I FEEL BETTER :D

I FINALLY finished The Third Policeman and we're going to start The Satanic Verses sometime. Maybe I will start tomorrow night! The library is closed today so I can't go pick up the book until tomorrow ( Read more... )

Thursday I spent the morning wandering about aimlessly - I started with a stint in Barnes and Noble at the Pru reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell while eating breakfast at the Starbucks. Then I headed over to Fanueil Hall to do some window shopping and pick up macaroons for Rachel before I was supposed to meet Margaret for lunch at BU ( Read more... )

Today's theme: Asian American artists! Plus a bonus "help Japan" day with arts thrown in.

For New Yorkers:

Mothers Milk: A Japan Earthquake Fundraiser and Reflection with Ishle Yi Park

Renowned poet Ishle Yi Park will be joined by Palestinian American poet-activist Suheir Hammad, musician Taiyo Na, writer Chiwan Choi, poet Roopa Singh, and ( Read more... )

Young Mexican Police Chief Seeks US Asylum after being fired from her job. Given what's happened to a number of other people in the area, including Ericka Gandara (who has been missing since Christmas), I'm incredibly relieved to hear that she is indeed in the US and seeking asylum ( Read more... )

calyupsos posted a video that is awesome. Awesome. AWESOME.

But anyway. What I intended to post this morning (not that any of you care now that you've been directed to sex) was this:

Asian American Teenage Girls Have Highest Rates of Depression

The report highlights statistics from the U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS) Office of ( Read more... )

Okay so people know that I've been trying to go to bed for the past hour or so, but my grandmother sent me this article from the LA Times on the Oxy-Pomona rivalry, and I found this beautiful gem that I had no idea about ever"To date, Oxy leads the series, 60-48-3, and has won the last six games. Last year, it erased a 10-point halftime deficit to ( Read more... )

Yesterday Alex and I had a Great Adventure in Westwood. He says it's not an adventure because we didn't get lost, but I feel like the wait at the Federal Building and the screaming at pedestrians makes up for that ( Read more... )

TSA couldn't manage to stop the underwear bomber despite all the warnings, but that white college student with Arabic flash cards and suspiciously short hair, yeah, they arrested him.

From Fark and Jordan for the heads-up.

From derivatizing: Elks, Pocky, Pomona College, Mia, Lemonade

o1. Elks

There's not much to say. The brief story can be found in my profile, but basically it's all Kat Lin's fault. I am an elk. Whoooo~

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