DUKE SUCKS.

Yukio Mishima is (probably rightly) known as one of the greatest post-war figures of Japanese literature. He was amazingly prolific and his novels were pretty much all well-received. Every Japanese lit class I've ever had has required at least one of his books ( Read more... )

SNOW DAY!

YEAH!!!

ATTENTION, SEATTLE F-LISTERS! Go see this Lucy exhibit for me! ;______; That's so awesome that she's in the 'States... why did it have to be on the other coast? One of the biggest paleontological finds in the past century... We never get good traveling paleontology exhibits here >wAlso, you guys remember how they found that mammoth in the San ( Read more... )

Stegosaur discovered with unusually long neck. And another article from the Discovery Channel. Seems to make sense to me, since the front legs are so long it'd have to have a longer neck to reach the ground. Still cool, though 8DD

Also it mentions in the Discovery Channel link that Jack Horner (who is among my Paleontologist Heroes) has a new ( Read more... )

HOW 'BOUT THEM TERPS!

I'm not really a basketball person, but even I watched the mens' game yesterday 8DDD Also the parents and I went to see the womens' game against Duke today, because one of the Duke starters went to Oakton and graduated in the same class as my sister. Sadly for her, the Maryland girls flattened them 8DDD ( Read more... )

So a couple of days ago I thought I would have to make a post titled "RIP ShanPod" since it seemed my faithful companion of two and a half years had finally gone to join the choir invisible. If I hadn't been keeping it in the drawer waiting for the battery to give out it would have been pushing up the daisies. It was an ex-iPod ( Read more... )

My day ( Read more... )

Set up my JET interview just now. >w< I requested next next Wednesday in the morning, so if I've very lucky I'll be able to go to the interview and come back in time for my first class at 1:00. And if I'm not it won't kill me to miss that class once >.> It's my kanji class, so it's mostly self-study anyway ( Read more... )

I GOT AN INTERVIEW WITH JET!!

This doesn't mean I'm in, but it does mean I passed Stage One and get to try in Stage Two. And if I pass Stage Two then I'm in.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I AM SO RELIEVED. My apartment mate who also applied got an interview, too X3

Now I'm getting nervous about the interview itself, though ):