In China, you may have gathered, there is no LiveJournal. Now I am in Hong Kong, which is like a real country and has real internet. There is far too much to tell from the last seven or eight months, but suffice to say I am alive and you have been spared the culture-shock whining. I miss the ol LJ, it has a friends circle and dialect and pattern of ( Read more... )

Isn't it totally weird that most of the people who I think are really smart and awesome think I'm really smart and awesome? I don't quite understand how this could be, since they are all people who actually do  awesome things and there isn't much that I do at all. Anyways, I'm really happy I know all you smart, awesome people and I feel a little ( Read more... )

I finished the book. I liked it. Now is, I think, a time for celebratory jigs and mead-quaffing. And donuts. As they say.

Update: Spoilers in the comments. Ye be warned.

Livejournal: I HATE, deeply, the new layout when I log-in ( Read more... )

Good morning. What a beautiful day in Grinnell Iowa! Congratulations, first of all, to the Class of 2007. I loved your glazed looks as you marched in. "Is this really happening?"

President Osgood, members of the faculty, trustees, families and friends of the graduates, I consider it a great honor to have been invited to address members of the ( Read more... )

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net


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Was looking around online to read more about John Edwards. I found the interview he and Elizabeth did for 60 Minutes last night (Katie Couric?). It is the worst interview I may ever have seen/read/heard. It goes like this:

Q: You have cancer! That's scary!

A: Yes... it's hard.

Q: You could die!

A: Um. Actually, I will. Rather like everyone else ( Read more... )

My car is broken fucking again. I think the battery is dead.

I hope it's a quick fix, because I'm supposed to drive Alyssa to Minnesota on Wednesday. I hope it doesn't cost much money, because I don't have any to spare. Jesus.

It's snowing again.

Last night I walked home and I was blown across the ice a little. It was a weird, momemtary realization of what it might feel like to be a sail.

I've been keeping track on facebook, but here's a good place to archive. Credit to Lizzy for the idea.

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