i really, really, really need a better way of waking up, b/c this just isn't working ( Read more... )

from the department of awesomesauce: holy shit, that's a metal corset.

( life's a bit busy, surprise. also, hauscomm. )

just sent a reminder to peoples: tickets for the concert choir show next weekend are available *free* in lobby 10 this week. go get some, or if for some reason you can't get to lobby 10, leave me a note and i'll see if i can snag you some.

edit: i actually mean the student center, not lobby 10. whoops.

qotd: 'now i know why i dislike my 8.09 text [goldstein] so much...it was written by mathicists!' - yes, i really said that. it's possible this entry is mostly meant to irritate izzycati have other things to say, but i'm not saying them now. i will, however, note some old news: i was poked to try out adium for chatting and it's, um, better than ichat. i'm ( Read more... )

on both my off days (tuesday and thursday, i dno't have class until 1.) this week (and last th, but i knew i was exhausted then) i've slept for ~11 hours, after setting my alarm for a reasonable hour, turning it off, and crawling back into bed. sometimes twice. and i'm still exhausted and sleepy after 11 hours, and getting not-awful amounts of ( Read more... )

goodness, that's exciting. (probably nsfw.) and if anyone was still wondering, that photo i posted last week? is of stephen colbert. yeah, about that. i'll be over there, figuring out what to wear for delihaus (which is saturday, not friday. really.)

i totally forgot to bring a calculator to my 3.07 exam just now. so i busted out the long division, it was so fantastic. though keeping track of decimals was a bit complicated. it occurs to me that i should write a grateful letter to the relevant teacher, but i can't recall who taught me long division; i probably learned it at home before we we got ( Read more... )

excellent quote from today's japanese movie* (i have no idea whether to blame subtitles ( Read more... )

i just logged into my gmail account for the first time in, oh, forever (i appear to've gotten the thing in 2004, probably from izzycat), b/c it occurs to me that eventually i won't have my @mit.edu addresses. the sole contents? three spam messages, albeit ones with pretty obvious (all-caps) subject lines. and only 87 in the designated spam folder. ( Read more... )

'To send a man like this to journey up to Kyoto and pass judgment on its women was to place a stone Buddha before a cat; for the very prettiest woman might be put next to this greybeard without causing him the least concern.' - from an episode in 'the life of an amorous woman', which is totally my hass reading right now ( Read more... )