The statistics final last night was really easy, and now I'm done with school for the semester. Just checked my unofficial transcript online, and all of my grades were already reported - 3 A's! Good for me.

Aaaand... I have nothing else to write right now. How exciting!

We had a good weekend. Friday night we went to the Korean place I'd been craving for awhile, and had Korean-style kimchi pancakes (I forget what they're called, and I probably knew them by the Japanese name anyway) and spicy chicken and mushrooms grilled at the table, along with all of those little dishes of pickles, rice porridge, etc. that they ( Read more... )

Various things that I'm watching ( Read more... )

Really interesting article about celebrities, plastic surgery, and the ridiculous pressure to keep looking young.

Although my camera is no longer functioning, Justin took a crapload of photos, and I am stealing a few to post here.


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We watched Tokyo Monogatari (or Tokyo Story) the other day. This is very much one of the types of movies that I like: slow, subtle, and evocative. Certain scenes stand out in my mind: the old couple's shoes sitting side by side outside of their door, while they tried to sleep and the loud crowds of mahjong playing, drunken hooligans kept them ( Read more... )

This article about Chinese governmental/party involvement in Tibetan Buddhism reads like an Onion article, or an alternate version of 1984:

State authorities "decide what kind of person is allowed to be reincarnated," says Jiao Zai'an, an official in the Communist Party-led United Front Work Department....

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Home sick for two days now. Yesterday, Justin was home with me as well, but he went in today so I guess he was feeling better. Last night for me was the worst... runny, congested nose; scratchy throat; pounding headache; constant sneezing that made the headache worse and worse. I'm feeling better this morning and probably could've gone in, but ( Read more... )

I love the "view recent public posts" feature on LJ, but it's absolutely impossible to view it at work thanks to the multiple and frequent posts featuring huge blocks of photos of naked women.

Interactive county-by-county unemployment map of the States. Poor northern Michigan... unemployment rates of 20% or more have hit a few counties up there. I guess we're not so bad off here in northern NJ.