So I don't know how many people remember 7th grade reading class, but Ms. Hughes had us do an exercise in which we wrote a letter to ourselves, 10 years later. We were supposed to predict where we would be in 10 years ( Read more... )

Alex Rodriguez is the Anakin Skywalker of baseball. Now all he needs is the horribly disfiguring accident.

So today I realized that this will be my first Thanksgiving away from the family; I won't be flying home because airfare is prohibitive. Not only that, but as Mom and Jess are flying to Antarctica over Christmas, this will be the first Christmas I can remember that the whole family won't be together ( Read more... )

The person I'm dating has not seen Episodes V or VI.

I don't know how I feel about this.

P.S. Go Sox!

Pictures from the apartment!

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Who all would be interested in a cribbage tournament sometime soon?

I just finished playing 21 consecutive hours of Zelda games, during which I beat both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask in one sitting. It's quite possibly the dorkiest thing I've ever done, but it was a lot of fun and I have this strange sense of accomplishment. For some perspective, I never saved my Ocarina of Time game, so when I beat it and ( Read more... )

My semester is finally starting to calm down ( Read more... )

Graduate schools are apparently incompetent at rejecting people (or worse, they just don't care ( Read more... )

I got into grad school ( Read more... )