Today, I got hit by a car ( Read more... )

THE ENTIRE MEDICAL PROFESSION IS NOT TRYING TO MURDER YOU ( Read more... )

Q: I don't know what I want. #helpme ( Read more... )

In the chapter of the linguistics textbook that I am supposed to be reviewing there is a description of an experiment involving chinchillas. The researchers wanted to see if chinchillas could perceive speech sounds like humans, so they trained them to run across the cage whenever they heard [b] and stay put whenever they heard [p]. Then they played ( Read more... )

So I haven't posted in a long while because life has been very routine and mostly positive, but what the hell, it's almost midnight and I'm out of kanji to study for now (who am I kidding, there's always more ( Read more... )

( ...so yall get a long-ass recap post instead. )

For the last week or so I have been rocking the Japanese high-fashion male look - skinny, pale, jeans too tight, and sporting an I-dont-care Arashi-esque mullet thing. Now Japanese people as a rule have terrible haircuts, so no big deal there, but I think I ought to nip this resemblance in the bud before I get the urge to start wearing as much ( Read more... )

Posting because I have an hour more than I usually do and because, aside from occasional facebook updates, I probably appear dead to the western world ( Read more... )

- Spanish language movies are just better than American ones. I saw Los secretos de sus ojos today and have since decided that everything Pedro Almodóvar or Juan José Campanella directs is flawless. I want to watch Los abrazos rotos again! A lot of American movies feel the need to interrupt conversations every thirty seconds with a witty comment or ( Read more... )

I'm just going to post on LJ to complain because I have been stuck on this couch for 36 straight hours and I have nothing else to do other than stare blankly at the Colbert Report and try not to laugh at it because laughing hurts. Everything does - coughing, swallowing, breathing through my mouth (nose is impossible), talking, sneezing. I am ( Read more... )