ya baby! i got the internship with the institute for defense and disarmament studies for the fall semester. they replied pretty fast which probably means no one really applied. well that worked out fabulously for me haha. hopefully i can fit hours into my sporadic class schedule--and hopefully i can learn a lot and add more experience to my ( Read more... )

oxfam emailed me and they want volunteers for the coldplay us tour. i got their first email looking for people to actually come along on the entire tour on the tour bus but alas, school prevents me from doing that. but now i can volunteer for individual shows, and coldplay will be in irvine in august. whoop..long hours of volunteering, but at ( Read more... )

From the wise people of wikipedia ( Read more... )

browsing through lj led me to joe and agi and her sister. wow they can make you feel really stupid and unaccomplished ( Read more... )

yah baby!! the greatest thing happened today that made my day (in terms of my academic career) the histroy dept. administrator told me i don't even have to petition--the class i took at oxford counts as a colloquia requirement!! o that saves me so much work and time. now i only have to take 1 more colloquia, 2 more intro courses and i'm done with ( Read more... )

wikipedia is my new obsesson because most websites are blocked. i just got a brief history about typefaces. did you know arial is reviled by hardcore graphics people and typographers? it's apprently a cheap imitation of helvetica that microsoft commissioned so that they could use something that looks like the quality helvetica without having to ( Read more... )

I can't believe my brother is so old now. It's his 5th grade promotion! Whoa! I'm old! He's old! Whoa! Anyways, the school sent a flyer with a set of precautions, here are some gems ( Read more... )

i need a new digital camera. mine sucks.

There are people who prank call Greenlight. I wouldn't mind them if they were funny but the calls are really pointless and it makes me wonder why these kids even bother. One clever call involved a girl asking to refinance. And then I transferred the call. Turns out she was just kidding. HA! A prank call to a mortgage company asking for a home ( Read more... )

A woman just came by and she stank of smoke ( Read more... )