This is it. Tomorrow morning, I wake up and head over to campus to defend my Masters thesis. As you might imagine, I'm pretty nervous. As this is a pretty public forum here, it's probably in my best interest to be much more diplomatic than I might prefer. Suffice to say, this has been an immensely frustrating process in many ways. I've learned ( Read more... )

Imagine you are running a race. A marathon, perhaps. Everyone else is running faster than you are, but you're moving along at your own steady pace. You are the proverbial tortoise: you may not be the front-runner, but you'll get there in the end ( Read more... )

Leah is on page 111 of her thesis (not counting intro and conclusion, which haven't been written yet). She has written 8 pages today, and is completely brain dead, which explains why she's using third person ( Read more... )

I just set my homepage to this, so that every time I open a browser, I am attacked by sheer cuteness. I'm never getting tired of this thing ( Read more... )

Babies are like dogs. They can sense evil, I'm sure of it. Check out the way this baby reacts to each of the candidates: The Baby Primary!Life continues to be exciting and busy. Except for the thesis part; that's just busy. At least I'm done writing about literature... for now. Literature is so boring for me. I just want to get to the parts ( Read more... )

Wow, folks. Just... wow. I am not often rendered speechless, but the experience of attending the Barack Obama rally in Wilmington today has done just that. It was one of the more amazing experiences I've ever had. I woke up at 6 AM, was on my feet for almost five and a half hours (9-11:15, in line, 11:15-1:15, waiting for Obama to speak, and 1: ( Read more... )

Well, I think I've been mysterious about what's going on here for long enough. Time to let you all in ( Read more... )

So, it's entirely possible that in the last two days I've had an epiphany about what I might want to do with my life. Interestingly enough (or perhaps, obviously enough), it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Asia. Rather, it reaches way back more into my passions and interests as a child that I never really gave up but never thought ( Read more... )

I grew up during the Clintonian '90s and as such, remember the years that they were in the White House with a great deal of fondness. I always said, "His personal life is his personal life; what matters is how he is as a president," and he was a good one. I admired Hillary for wanting to be so active, even if I really never cared for her all that ( Read more... )

I defy you to watch this and not at least smile. I mean, unless you're some sort of grinch who -- No, no, even then, I think, you'd still smile.

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