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Lunch in the cafeteria today reminded me of how much everything affiliated with fish and chips tastes exactly the same. The first time I ever had this particular local delicacy was when Chris and I were waiting for our train back from Cornwall when we went camping there last summer. We stopped at a local fish-and-chips place in the town where we ( Read more... ) -
Happy Aspen-was-born-22-years-ago day!
So far the festivities have consisted of Chris giving me Rammstein's newest CD (the deluxe version, albeit the smaller one without the handcuffs and 6 dildos.) We're thinking of going out to dinner for it this afternoon provided it doesn't start dumping down rain like it has for the past 3 days. Even then we might ( Read more... ) -
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I didn't even consider the fact that I'd be sad about missing Thanksgiving this year, but here I am feeling kinda sad about it. I used to be a lot more enthusiastic about Thanksgiving when I was a kid and we would go to my dad's stepmom's house in Las Vegas every year. I liked to watch (and sometimes join in with) my dad and uncles playing Rise of ( Read more... ) -
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Today in my 5th-Century Athens seminar we got to look up close at some of the pots in the school's very small museum. To protect them from various harmful skin oils and such the prof passed around a bunch of these truly hilarious white gloves that made everyone look like they had Mickey Mouse hands. Wearing these, we got to handle a late black- ( Read more... ) -
A land in turmoil cried out for a hero...
Just now while revising my essay on Persians by Aeschylus, I was trying to think of a way to describe the time before Athens was established in which the Greeks considered a lot of their myths and stuff to have taken place. I tried a whole bunch of things, but the only one I ended up liking very much went something like this:
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2009: A Book Review
I recently finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey and will never again question why Clarke has a sci-fi award named after him. I've never looked much into the wide world of hard(ish) sci-fi, but as presented in 2001, the prose was so engaging and the explanations were so straightforward and clear, even for a non-science person like me, that I ( Read more... ) -
Some Really Cool Things
- Flying into a place with a lot of small cities late at night. Looking out of the plane as we landed at Heathrow it looked like I'd turned off the clipping in a video game and had stepped outside of the level where I could see all of the individual layers of the background and things. The big, dark spaces between each of the individual towns made it ( Read more... )
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Well, my first flight was a resounding success, but the second flight came to a screeching halt when the flight attendants informed us that there was a mechanical problem and they had to go look for another plane. After waffling for a while they finally told us the flight had been officially cancelled and we would have to rebook, so after only the ( Read more... ) -
Regressive? Me? Me?!?
Today's activities:- Said goodbye to the Aged (Grand)Parents with an ornamenal pepper plant and a nice card. I think the sertraline has kicked in being that I didn't cry at any point during the proceedings.
- Went over to padparadscha's house with the doll she made me a while ago to do a photostory for her doll blog. (See post title.) The doll, Tris, will be living ( Read more... )
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OH GOD
OH GOD I LEAVE ON THURSDAY
OH GOD I'M GOING TO BE IN ENGLAND GETTING A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE
OH GOD I'M LEAVING ALL MY FRIENDS HERE BEHIND
OH GOD