So my parents are in Costa Rica (screw them) and there is a fire just above their house. Fortunately the people house sitting are very competent and surprisingly unexcitable English friends who rounded up the cats into boxes, and the few drawers I told them to grab. The area where my house is hasn't officially been evacuated yet, but its still kind ( Read more... )

No one seems quite as excited about my bamboo forests as I do, and I'm a little worried that means I'm destined to become a super villain: Poison Anna.

anyway I made a dumb little video

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classes start on Monday. eep!

re-potting your cactus collection. ow.

I am however going to arrange them in such a way as to keep the F*cking cats off my lawn.

So, my pop-economic reading list has been expanding and is keeping me very entertained as otherwise I'd probably slip into a state of walking mindlessness. I could totally be a zombie, I even live next to a grave yard ( Read more... )

This is the third night in a week I've had an undergraduate thesis nightmare. I used to have high school nightmares in college (like I have to go back even though I graduated and just do another year). This time I'm in grad school having college nightmares about having to go back, and write a Bio thesis in one semester although no one wants to be ( Read more... )

I think I had an Existential Crisis when I took Philosophy at city college when I was 16. Class in the morning and I spent the afternoon working mindlessly in a Record store, thinking. It was deep. Certainly my own mortality was contemplated to the point of depression (I gained quite a bit of weight that summer) but the CRISIS I feel like I've been ( Read more... )

I hate standardized exams more than anything. Well, more than a lot of things. After taking a 3 hour one today, the only thing I could think of was how much I wanted Bush to take one of the stardardized exams required of high school students, and give the results to the media ( Read more... )

The Butthead moved back in with me. She got like 7x nicer, which is weird and unexpected. she hasn't peed on anything, and mostly sits on her piece of grass and squawks for me to play with her ( Read more... )

I sent myself a few boxes of stuff before I left Wuhan. One of them had 10 English Biochem text books in it. I recieved the box yesterday containing 7 of my books (dunno what happend to the other 3) plus 13 random books in Chinese with paper slips in them for the UC Berkely library.

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No fucking clue.

I done gone and cut all my hair off. I was planning on shaving it to give it a chance to grow back after losing most of it in China, but I didn't. Just real short. I don't like it, but I've been getting a lot of positive feedback, so I'm pretty convinced everyone is lying to me and I don't actually trust anyone anymore. Although I do sort of like ( Read more... )