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I have nothing to sayyy
My brain is telling me it's time to check out (to the point where I didn't send an important email last night that I was convinced I sent panic!) But I need it working for at least the next three hours (although the next seven would be ideal because that will get me through the class which I have not yet done the reading for because last night I ( Read more... ) -
I should be working right now.
Well I can't really pretend any more that other people are tricking me into watching the Olympics, since last night pretty much of my own volition I watched three hours of male figure skating instead of writing my personal statement (I liked the Japanese skaters, so graceful! and also, the Americans. Tasselboy, who I think should be on the next ( Read more... ) -
keats
My old roommate came up to visit on Saturday, and we attempted to watch Bright Star, which is a movie about Keats, one of the Romantic poets (along with Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, etc), and Fannie Brawne, the woman he fell in love with and wrote some excellent excellent love letters to. Of course, it is a pretty tragic love story since he died two ( Read more... ) -
I...don't know how I feel
False. I know exactly how I feel about this. I feel grumpy.
www.chipchick.com/2010/02/computer-engineer-barbie.html
Mattel has made its newest barbie "I can do it while remaining well-coiffed and buxom" doll a computer engineer. Which, as far as I can see, means she is wearing a binary t-shirt, pink glasses, and pink laptop. You know, to go along ( Read more... ) -
woohoo!
Things look promising when you are obsessively interested in a course before you take it because you just spent an hour reading the textbook and thinking "awesome, awesome!" every few pages. (It helps that the book was written by my old advisor, who is idiosyncratically hilarious, and thus so is his book ( Read more... ) -
homesick
In general, people seem to have a difficult time understanding why I get so homesick (and then I have to deal with things like, "you just need to make friends" or "you should call home more often"). It's part (most, actually) of the reason I never studied abroad, and a lot of the reason I don't like Dartmouth - it's too far from home. And if you ( Read more... ) -
snow! and murres!
This is my favorite part of snow, when it's making the world completely silent and it's just slowly falling to the ground, and hiding all the little ugly things (sort of like how Milton says in the Nativity Ode ( Read more... ) -
nuthatch!
We have a nuthatch that spends a good deal of its time bounding up and down on the tulip poplar right outside my window. I enjoy it, and it's incredibly cute and bouncy, but very distracting. Whenever I get really focused on something, it starts bouncing around in my peripheral vision, and my eyes are hardwired to notice and track the bounces. I'm ( Read more... ) -
books!
it is rainy and dreary outside right now (this would not be happening if I were in new hampshire! in new hampshire, it does not rain after november. it only snows. (I would take snow over rain any day. I would not take nh's three months of bitter cold over maryland's three months of lackadaisical jaunts around the freezing point, but life is not ( Read more... ) -
fun fact!
In italian card games, "pescare una carta" means to draw a card. "Pesce" means fish. go fish ( Read more... )
