So, I'm all for tattoos, but here's something I've never understood: getting someone's name, specifically a significant other's, tattooed on your body. Why do people think this is a good idea? A few days ago a friend of mine and her boyfriend (who, it is important to point out, has cheated on her before) got each other's names done on their arms ( Read more... )

So apparently the new apartment complex Laura and I are trying to move to approved our application last week... and just didn't feel the need to notify us. Laura, great hater of phones that she is, finally got frustrated enough to call them today, and they were basically like "Oh yeah, you seem fine, see you July 18th" which, you know, would have ( Read more... )

Last night, after a fairly short period of agonizing, I emailed the guy from my Japanese class. Apparently he really does want to hang out, and he'd been wondering how I was doing and, yeah, so now I'm happy and feeling a bit less retarded.

Anyway, thank you, thank you for the encouragement, I'm completely terrified by this sort of thing and ( Read more... )

Laura and I have spent a significant chunk of today working on our U.S. government applications. We picked the same day to do it because it's very stressful, and so we can proofread each other's KSAs. It's rather difficult, while we're both interested in slightly different fields, a lot of the jobs we want require Secret to Top Secret levels of ( Read more... )

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Zombie invasion in Texas

My sister Jenn's in town, which is always nice. We went present shopping today, which was, you know, harrowing. I'm tentatively hopeful about Christmas this year; after two very hostile years, Jenn and Mother had a reasonably civil phone conversation last week, and they're both coming to my aunt's for Christmas Eve dinner. I think they're trying ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruEMaDZWRcs

I love Carolina.

Also, yay for being done with finals!! ^_^v

Colin Firth is playing Lord Henry in the new Dorian Gray film. I... I want to be skeptical... but holy shit Colin Firth that is so fantastic I will definitely go see this.
(Also apparently Prince Caspian dude is playing Dorian. Not really how I pictured Dorian, you know, at all, but ok.)

So, barring any natural/unnatural/self-inflicted disasters, my adviser told me today that I can, in fact, graduate in May. Holy shit. Moreover, instead of having to take 18 hours next semester like I thought, I only need 9. Although in actuality 12, because I won't get all of my grants if I do an underload. So, here's my dilemma: I only need ( Read more... )