So after dropping off various stuffs in our home base Guangzhou (which I will get to later), mom and I proceeded to go traipsing across the vast land that is China for two weeks, during which time I learned that the worst things about the country are ( Read more... )

I ended my last post saying I was going to update with more pictures from China, but then my hard drive ran out of space and I couldn't transfer my 1 gig+ worth of photos from my camera. So rather than delete the 1,065 Beatles pictures that exist on my computer for some reason despite the fact that I never look at them, I instead decided to wait ( Read more... )

I know I don't write in this thing very often anymore anyway, but my disappearance off the face of the Internet for the better part of the transpired summer was mostly because I had been away, far away, for five weeks in...

CHINA! ( Land of... )

But I love disparaging my current alma mater...

Straight off the website:

"On the 13th of the second month, 1635...Att a Generall meeting upon publique notice...it was...generally agreed upon that our brother Philemon Pormort shall be intreated to become scholemaster for the teaching and neutering of children with us." --- Town Records*sporfle* ( Read more... )

7:01 pm...
me: oh yay hong just got into brown
me: YAYZERS
Jessica: OOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGZZZZZZZZZ
me: i got company! =DDDD
Jessica: how bout harvard???
Jessica: i want her too!!
me: she doesn't care hahaha

7:06 pm...
Jessica: HONG GOT INTO HARVARD!!!
me: OH MY GOD
me: !!!!!!!!
Jessica: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
me: er, now ensues the ( Read more... )

Wow.
I'm gonna get this game just so I can make myself an orcish look-alike, down to the last wrinkle.

And because it's OBLIVION. Doggoneit. Must get new computer. Must get new computer. Except... should I get a laptop for college convenience, or a desktop that's fast enough to actually handle this monster? omg CRISIS.OH, and guess what *I* did ( Read more... )

...this doodle from my calc notebook had made a pretty accurate prediction.


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Yesterday was a red-letter day in that I went to the one and only school dance I've ever been to. It was the Sixie Social. In other words, I was at Argo with the whole writerly gang until ten-thirty, and to give my brain a break from all that copy-editing, crashed a seventh-grade party. I got away with an eyemask and mardi gras beads (both purple: ( Read more... )

Tonight I was on dictionary.com looking up the 200 vocab words for Johnson's Terrible Dread English Notebook, and, predictably enough, I decided that rather than do my homework, I would instead make a database of all the words that have to do with cows.

bovine (adj.)
cattle (pl. n. general)
kine (pl. n. general)
longhorn (n. of any long- ( Read more... )

A day after a bout of strenuous exercise, I usually develop weird muscle aches. So yesterday (a SNOW DAY) I was at school, in Ke's Asian Sweatshop (lime_disconnect, where are your pictures?), helping to prepare the 6000+ carnations that were delivered this morning to jubilant homerooms, and tonight I discovered I was aching in the most unexpected places, namely ( Read more... )