this is for Bo, whose Friendster/MySpace testimonial is worlds more entertaining than the results of this online personality test/meme:


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when, despite your better judgement, you've been taking that you know is addictive, and you've been doing more and more in recent days, how do you know you've crossed the dreaded ADDICTION line...?

go here and read this very amusing comic. please:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/dinosaurcomics/6095.html

PURITY: 38% sex, 20% substance, 26% moral [31% total]

Well done! The above results indicate your purity breakdown. The higher a number, the more "pure" you are, and the lower, the more you've done.

The questions all measured past experiences, so for the rest of your life, your scores should never climb. [It's interesting to think they all ( Read more... )

if anyone's interested, here's what the Onion A.V. Club (which has, in my opinion, the best music reviews available pretty much anywhere) has to say about the new Beck album; it's not especially complimentary ( Read more... )

a post made by the ever-intriguing ZOJIRUSHI made me think of something that annoys me. i grew up in the South. of Southern parents, and Southern grandparents etc. despite the fact that the South is the punching bag for oh-so-sophisticated hipsters, there are many things i love about the South and feeling culturally Southern. and some of my friends ( Read more... )

last week i received a letter of acceptance from the University of Illinois department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. i was also offered full funding; tuition waiver and an assistantship as well as $2000 for travel/research. that money is totally my next trip to Japan. i begin in the fall.

this is notice to you all that Liz and I are planning to throw a little shin-dig this Saturday evening. it will be a wine and cheese party, and we'll be providing some wines and cheeses that we like, and are hoping that our friends can come with a diverse mix of things that they like, which we may or may not already be familiar with. there are a ( Read more... )

day two on the new job, and nothing much happening. my boss is out this morning, so i'm left to my own devices; setting up my office and ruminating over some truly fantastic Japanese green tea (Ito En Megami Sencha and Yamasatsuki Ichiban Ryokucha) I'm really enjoying my new tea-making device ( Read more... )

so today is my last day in my current position as a "Senior Clerk" here in the Admissions Office. tomorrow i begin as an Admissions Officer in the International Office (of Admissions) thinking about it earlier, i had a feeling of accomplishment (something which rarely overcomes me) and that i had really done a good job here. despite the fact that i ( Read more... )