clearly the reason I haven't posted to livejournal in a year is because they don't really make you write papers in design school. Because now I have a big paper due in my ethnomusicology elective class and instead I am updating livejournal ( Read more... )

a couple of weeks ago, I was more or less accused of not eating enough. It was a polite, gentle remark, but still, my eating habits were being judged. This is sort of a thing for me, because every now and then someone will make some remark about how I am "too skinny," and in the past (mostly in high school) I would get people hinting that they were ( Read more... )

I graduated today.

Just fyi.

and I really did commit to IU's program, so next week I'll be off to look for places to live in Bloomington with zambonia.

And then maybe probably hopefully off to Seattle to be with phoenixeyes

and awhile ago I started a blog which may or may not get more interesting as I have more time/HCI-related activities.

I'm not quite ready to call it a decision, but ( Read more... )

so I applied to four graduate schools ( Read more... )

I'm still alive, Iowa's still too damn cold ( Read more... )

between Monday night and Tuesday night, the temperature dropped 50 degrees.
with 30 mph winds gusting to 45.

things I will not miss about Grinnell include: Iowa winters.

who wants to kidnap keepon with me?
you know you do.

can you get addicted to gum arabic? because I can't seem to stop eating the organic cinnamon mints that came in my finals week "survival kit ( Read more... )

I just reread most of the posts visible on the first page of my livejournal ( Read more... )

today another faculty candidate taught a sample lesson to my CSC-151 class. I learned how to add and subtract using a soroban
I think they are awfully clever.

the Chinese suanpan can be used for decimal and hexidecimal calculations!

I might be a nerd.

a nerd who is freaking out about grad school applications.