So, yesterday, in addition to being a shitty mood, I (well, everyone in the program) had to retake the entrance exam. Basically, everything about the test was exactly the same, except that the writing prompt was slightly different. Everyone,for some reason, was completely exhausted though - I'm not sure if there's something in the air or what, but ( Read more... )

So, for some reason my body refuses to sleep in. And today this means waking up at dawn, even though I'm sick and I have to take the exit exam for CASA today (basically, we take the entrance exam again, the exact same test we took over a year ago, to see how well we've progressed. Except now, we have absolutely no real motivation to do well ( Read more... )

So, here's what's gotta happen, y'all:

When I get back, we need to have some sort of bbq party, with chicken + Sweet Baby Ray's, beer brats, and thick hamburgers. And there needs to be a plentiful supply of 40s.

That is all.

So, I finally know my summer plans ( Read more... )

I was reflecting today that I've been sort of uncannily used to the idea of dashing across two lanes of traffic to jump into the open door of a still moving bus, which is usually so full that I spend half the ride either in the stairwell or sometimes even hanging out the door ( Read more... )

I think this article "Clueless Guys Can't Read Women" is pretty right on - I particularly enjoy the study's finding that "Rather than seeing the world through sex-colored glasses, men seemed just to have blurry vision of sorts, overall. For instance, the college guys sometimes mistook sexual advances as pal-like gestures ( Read more... )

I swear to God, UT - Austin's online course catalog and registration system is the most completely confusing website interface I've ever used. I am completely baffled as to why it's almost impossible to find the descriptions for courses, though the schedule is relatively easy to find, if again badly designed. I thought the whole idea of HTML was ( Read more... )

Walking home from a party last night, one of the girls in my program, a vegetarian, said more or less out of the blue ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure the primary instruments of "urban planning" in the Middle East are dice, dart boards, and coin tosses ( Read more... )

While reading the Googlenews computer generated headlines, I realized that the term, "gangbanger" is dangerously ambiguous...

Though perhaps I've just been reading too much Savage Love.