So...in my class we did this project where we made tissue paper hot air balloons. When we flew them the other day, we had a bit of a fire-related incident. One of the boys was NOT following my instructions and got the tissue too close to the flame and it went up like the Hindenburg. One of my other students just happened to be filming it on his ( Read more... )

I might go to back to Africa this summer! A professor from Tulane invited me to go for the summer field season in NAMIBIA!!!!! WHOOOEEEEEE!!!

And the best part? I wouldn't have to pay anything. HeHeHe. Things are really looking up. :)

Ben Stein is a fucking dumbass and that's all I have to say about it.

Two more dreadful weeks. I swear, it's not even worth the money. This kid hit me with a pencil the other day. I pressed charges for assault and had him suspended, so I guess he got his. Another kid got my cell phone number and has been texting me pictures of himself. And "asking about the homework". Please. Even if there was any, he wouldn't ( Read more... )

I got into Tulane. Tulane ! ! ! ! ! ! ! And it's a PhD program. I don't have to waste two years on a Masters.

I can breathe now.

I'm so excited.

I'm moving to New Orleans.

This is weird, but I think my favorite line from the entire series of "The Office" (U.S.) is something Jim says to Karen in the "Beach Games" episode, when Jim and Karen call the CFO to set up interviews for a corporate job and Karen, rather than saying "I'd like to be considered for the corporate job as well" on the phone, misspeaks and says, "I' ( Read more... )

I didn't know it was possible to be this cold without being dead. The bones in my face ache. I made the idiotic decision to walk home from the pool today...I thought, Hey, it's ten degrees, but if I walk fast I'll get warm, right? It's about three and a half miles and usually takes me 50 minutes to walk home. Well, what I failed to take into ( Read more... )

I'm about halfway through "Love in the Time of Cholera"...and...I've got to say I'm a little disappointed. I don't know what I was expecting, but it's not really...I don't know. Ugh. Maybe it'll redeem itself in the second half, but so far it's been pretty much 80% weirdly described sex scenes. Maybe it's the translation, but pretty much the ( Read more... )

Snow Day!!!!!! WOOOHOOO!

It's pretty sad that I'm so excited about my first snow day (schools are closed on account of a shitload of snow!)...I am 23, after all.

What fresh hell?!?!? Charles Lockwood of University College London is going to call me "for a discussion". I would so much rather be rejected flat-out than have a phone interview and then be rejected. I am not at my best on the phone. Or in person, for that matter. If I had any idea how much of a strain on my nerves applying for graduate school ( Read more... )