Finished Midterm one out of three. Latin American Politics. Might have gotten a C, B or A -- no way of knowing.

Continuing on the theme, I'll finish watching Diarios de Motocicleta and eat some soup.

Back in New York! Fall Break is finally hear and I get 5 straight days off ( Read more... )

"The Royal Society was steadfast in its unpopular belief that science could only move forward through a transparent and open exchange of ideas backed by experimental evidence. Many of the experiments were ones that we would not recognize as scientific today-nor were the questions they answered. For example, when the Duke of Buckingham was admitted ( Read more... )

Luckily I live in a four-bedroom apartment, most of which is clean...but look at my room.

Here's my side, complete with map of the world and made bed.

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My phone exploded. So I got a new one and was somehow goaded into changing numbers.

New phone number: 646 703 4503

I've set it up so that if you call the old one, you just get voicemail telling you to call this one. Pretty cool.

At least according to my lowly standards, this was an incredibly busy day ( Read more... )

I'm going to run an experiment ( Read more... )