Quick question - I'm looking for podcasts so I can hear the news and other stuff while I'm commuting. Any recommendations? I've been poking around at Yahoo! Podcasts but am not sure what to go with since I tend to live in a hole and have rarely attempted to come out of it. =P Anything you find interesting or enlightening would be appreciated.

This is so, so cute. The original song is by J.J. Lin, but this is by a Chinese acapella group called PennYo from UPenn. Dou jiang means soybean milk, while you tiao are yummy golden deep-fried strips of bread eaten for breakfast in Taiwan, China, etc. In the song, the singer compares him and his girlfriend to dou jiang and you tiao, which just ( Read more... )

I went to Shimoda for the weekend on a program with four other students and, surprisingly enough, genuinely appreciated the time I spent there. Last week was exhausting for various reasons, and I am still tired and worried, but I'd like to go back to Shimoda at some point. I would even like to stay there for an extended period of time if possible ( Read more... )

I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of Chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and ( Read more... )