i've put off doing this for a long time, but i've always hated 'innocenti', so um... strange_quark is my new journal.

did i mention that i finally read pevear and volokhonsky's translation of the brothers kamarazov? i finally read it. it was incredible and i only reluctantly put it down as necessary - i read it during the slightly feverish, delirious phase of my most recent illness ( Read more... )

( long rambly school-related entry )

OH MY GOD I GOT SO MUCH FUCKING FINANCIAL AID THIS YEAR.

(like CRAZY amounts, and my very prestigious scholarship that is only awarded to about 80 out of however many applicants apply to cmu survived fully intact despite very shitty grades spring semester...! yay! yay! yay!!!)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

apparently alcohol makes everything better now! damn cmu education. a hot, sweaty hip hop club full of skanky foreigners was actually tolerable after i had a couple of tsingtaos. yikes. i distinctly remember pointing at someone's t-shirt and saying "technics!" with glee, but nothing sketchy really happened except gross people kept making eye ( Read more... )

score +1 for the hipster points. i just got an invite from someone i don't even know to a really hipster party, more hipster than the wrct spring show afterparty with all the indie rock kids dancing to hip-hop in tom's basement. i would totally go if i were in pgh, because i am a total wanker ( Read more... )

gack. it is SO frustrating trying to get wrct related work done, as my connection with andrew unix servers is somehow slower here than when i was using dialup. still don't know what is up with sharzhad's show. also, apparently the person i trained to take over the calendar has flaked. rarggrg. so frustrating ( Read more... )

ok, what the hell? obviously i haven't been checking my email very much or the wrct bboard but sharzhad or someone deleted her show. um. i don't know. i wish people would frickin' email me first before doing stuff like that. just because.. i am the program director, you know, and i like to be kept up to date on such things. also, because i had ( Read more... )

aww damn. apparently, instead of a performance of the Totally Awesome Dudes guitarmy, there was a beat-down from some kids from youngstown. because of something involving scene politics. Totally Lame, mang. good thing i'm not part of any 'scene', and only tangentially related to lameass 'goth' 'scene' doings ( Read more... )

man oh man am i ever so bored.

but how, pauline? how could you ever be bored in shanghai???well, let's have a quick recap of today's events ( Read more... )