Last night around ten o'clock I had a sudden vision of how to get my project to work as I wanted it. Omitting technical details, I went to be at 3:30.

According to Google Maps, I just rode eleven miles on my bike (from my apartment to my parents' house and back). Eleven miles shouldn't be too bad, right? Not for someone who has trained himself on the vast expanses of Beijing's ring roads in the dead heat of a Chinese August and mere miles from the edge of a desert ( Read more... )

I will probably be moving into my new apartment tomorrow. Now that I own a shower curtain, the final obstacle to independent living has been surpassed. Further confirming the suggestion that I now own too much stuff to ever move again, I decided that my apartment looks a little bare and made impulse purchases on the Internet. You are now looking ( Read more... )

Thoughts:

1. I decided today that I now own too much stuff to ever move again. It was so easy when all I owned was books.

2. I have not yet seen "The Dark Knight," but I want to see it.

3. I have, however, seen the trailer for "Watchmen" that runs before "The Dark Knight," and you should see it too.

(JONNY is setting plates on a table. MOM is placing romaine lettuce into a bowl ( Read more... )

I hate Comcast. They are pretty much totally incompetent. I was supposed to have the Internet today. I don't, so I'm going to call and yell at them tomorrow.

You can tell a project is going to be great when you go in to meet with your professor and he's wearing this shirt. The first thing out of my mouth was, "That shirt is awesome." My professor smiled and indicated that he was trying to cut down on his collection so he would stop being mistaken for a graduate student.

It's time for that update where I describe a situation that everyone can identify with. Get ready to nod your heads in recognition! Might I present "having a not particularly good yet extremely catchy song stuck in your head." In this case, it's "Shut Up and Let Me Go" by the Ting Tings ( Read more... )

With over two weeks having passed since convocation, I am finally getting around to writing things down. And it's a good thing, too; a lot of things have been happening, and the longer I wait, the more things that happen, until the point where I have to subject you all to a twenty-page update. So let's begin ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took my last final. That means I've finished my undergraduate coursework. Convocation is a week from today.