Awhile back I was going to make a facecious (?) post counting my blessings, which would have included never having been forced to speak with someone named Bubba, living in a country where it is possible to move at least a thousand miles away from any Bubba you do happen to encounter, and having access to (pictures of) really hot people (via the ( Read more... )

OMG YOU'RE EIGHT-FUCKING-TEEN!!!

Happy Birthday Claire!!!

I'm so lucky to have you as a sister. Those who don't have you as a sister are lamer for it. You are brilliant funny creative passionate and thoughtful (among other things) person and you're one of my best friends.  I hope your day (life even) is going fantastically. Muah muah, kiss kiss, loff loff, pica pica.

In other ( Read more... )

A Simple Questionaire For Heterosexuals

Lovely.

So you how when you have a to take a test and there's way too much to study and you don't feel at all prepared and you think "Wouldn't it be great if the teacher got sick and canceled?" all the while knowing it's not going to happen and you've got to suck it up and endure?

Guess who just emailed me saying she was sick and all classes and ( Read more... )

After a rainfall
I look down and see the sky
rippling below me

The darkening blue
caught up in lacy branches
floating on water

Allow me to amend my last post: I love New England. I love the the area surrounding New England. I love America. I love the world. Why, you ask? Because I, yes, the most awesomest person in the universe, am going to Kanazawa, Japan, to study at Princeton in Ishikawa. Because the world and I rock like the rockist rocking thing that ever rocked. Oh ( Read more... )

It snowed this morning. I hate New England.

So, in the last three days I've gotten about 13 hours of sleep in total. This is for a variety of reasons, consisting of homework, homework, and oh yes, more fucking homework. So I am placing the blame for any ditziness on my part squarely on the shoulders of society.

Moment of Ditziness #1-

Scene 1:

A small dorm room (incredibly tastefully ( Read more... )

Things you need to know to understand this story: Maryam, while not able to say much, has lived in Taiwan for ten years and understands a lot of Chinese. Annie, who lived in China for the first eight years of her life, has a fluent grasp of the language, and is evil ( Read more... )