Well, I deleted my vitriolic previous entry on here - I mostly just needed to vent - since my schedule has since gotten way better. My teacher that I work with has been really flexible and is making this way easier. Thank god! I even got my Friday back, so I think I'll have a good semester.

I actually kind of enjoyed this editorial from the student newspaper here, The Daily Texan. Basically he points out how silly it is that all these people voted for Prop 8 in California, suppressing human rights, while at the same time passing another proposition in favor of animal rights:
You can read it here

So I just flipped the page on the beautiful calendar my mom made, composed of her paintings. For November, there's a pretty picture of our house, covered in snow.

In related news, the predicted high here for Wednesday is 85 degrees.

This is a wonderful short story by the Sudanese author Tayyib Saalih, translated into English.

Seriously, it's one of my favorite short stories I've read in Arabic, and I'm glad the bountiful internet has a version of it translated online.

So, some people (yeah, that's you mom) have been wanting some pictures of my new house in Austin. Since it's night time, and since the whole house is still a bit under construction, I just took pictures of my room, which is in pretty good shape now that the closet is all together and I've retrieved all of my stuff finally.

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So, for the second time this summer, all of the fears of a hurricane actually having some sort of impact Austin are basically moot. Yesterday's weather report predicting "100% chance of showers" today has been revised to "20% chance of rain" and the weather is just sort of fall-looking(though not feeling), with gray clouds and slightly gusty wind ( Read more... )

So I've been a bit remiss in updating, and I don't think I'll make a super long post, but I just wanted to say I'm starting to settle down a bit more. I moved into my new place right at the end of August, having found it on craig's list. It's a bit pricier than I would have like - $575/mo, plus utilities, but it's a really nice house. Or rather, ( Read more... )

Well, I'm out of my professors' house, and into my new place which is still under heavy remodeling. Also, my furniture consists of a queen sized futon off of craig's list. I also have a lot of boxes, and a hamper, but nothing particularly load bearing. This is more or less fine, since I'll be heading to Minneapolis on Sunday, and I figure I can get ( Read more... )

Why does my body seem to think that I need to get up at 7:45 am on a Sunday morning. It's not like I went to bed super early or anything either - this just means I got like 5-6 hours of sleep. Why the hell am I awake? Grarrrrrrrrr!

I was sitting and grading homework, when some busybody walks by and says, "Is that the answer key?" I was like, "Yeah" to which he replied, "You should be showing that around", implying I was a student using it to cheat. I felt obliged to explain to him, "I'm the TA," as he was walking away ( Read more... )