Is anyone even still on Livejournal any more ( Read more... )

Wow, so this is it.

Damn am I gonna miss this.

I'm becoming increasingly irritable as the years go by - when I was a teenager very few things (or people) could annoy me, but nowadays that list is pretty damn long. I like to think that this is a result of me growing a backbone over the years, but on the other hand I could just be turning into a cranky old woman ( Read more... )

Just got back from an amazing trip down south to Costa Rica - beautiful country with a very clear American-pop-cultural influence (undoubtedly a result of the number of American tourists who flock there every winter). It was quite odd seeing KFC and Taco Bell everywhere, and having locals speak to us in an American accent - proof of how America- ( Read more... )

I have not yet had much time to reflect on the 5 days I spent in Florida (on the east coast and warm! Amazing!) because of the madness that has been my research assistant work + finals prep + problem sets + life ( Read more... )

So when they said it was going to snow this weekend, I expected a few scattered flakes, maybe a couple of inches of snow at most, that would thaw as quickly as it appeared ( Read more... )

(Or at least, I never did.)

A4 lined writing paper (that comes in a writing pad) is an unheard of concept here. People use weird sized writing paper that is "college ruled" and, intriguingly, has three holes instead of two along the side. All the files here have three holes too, so it's not like you can get away with punching two extra holes ( Read more... )

School has been in full swing for some weeks now. Not to put too fine a point on it, I've been slacking like nobody's business on that front. Much of what is being covered now I've already (mostly) done at the undergrad level, which is perhaps an indication of the pedagogical depth of a British university versus the oh-study-anything-you-want-we- ( Read more... )

I'm hoping very hard that there won't be a power outage because I will be seriously bored without all my electronic entertainment. Anyway, the situation outside my window doesn't look very bad at all at the moment - in fact it could pass for a rainy and windy day back home. Stay safe, people on the East Coast ( Read more... )

Second last night - then another long absence. Every time I come back something about this place is different, and I resent each new alteration more than I did the last one (huge creature of habit here ( Read more... )