"More than 3,000 police have been deployed in Paris and its multi-ethnic suburbs to prevent a repeat of the 2005 riots if, as many expect, Nicolas Sarkozy celebrates a victory on Sunday night." (link, emphasis mine)

Dear BBC,

If the bold section was meant to highlight racial unrest in France due to the government's idiotic policy of unitary ( Read more... )

SO.

Yesterday Andrea and I moved my boxes to her storage room. I am pleased to announce that since freshman year, I have had a net LOSS of junk, mostly through clothes, to the tune of an entire box! Granted, I still have two crates with me, but it's still a loss overall. Plus I have several hundred pounds (weight, not currency, though probably that ( Read more... )

This is what I want to do my grad work in!!!
CI brings together the practices of community development and organization, and insights from fields such as sociology, planning, computer science, critical theory, women's studies, library and information sciences, management information systems, and management studies. Its outcomes - community networks ( Read more... )

Lavender graduation was today. It was swell. Too tired to describe in full. Perhaps later.

Here's Mumma and me afterward:

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Here's the infamous music video you may have heard about. This one is good! You will definitely enjoy watching it.

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campily yours,
jaya

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(the first bit is a re-enactment)

and it turns out it's not broken! the doctor at UHS said the numbness and tingling should go away in a few days.

"My question is this: are Congress members statistically more jowly than normal people? Is it some sort of prerequisite?"

i told you! evolution is a double-headed nickel.

[hmm. can't seem to get the video to embed. just click here!]

this might be my new favorite website, now that sanjaya is off american idol.

p.s. see also.

Backstory:

So this anxiety thing is bad, right? But I've been managing it much better, and have made some lifestyle changes. More water, more exercise, more relax-time, and also ABSOLUTELY NO CAFFEINE EVER. This last part is sad because it means no teeeeeeeeeea. Oh, I know, I can have peppermint "tea" (it's not tea, it's an herbal infusion), or ( Read more... )

Ear plugs are great. They block out distracting sounds so I can focus better. But after a while my ears hurt. I really like this new kind; they're in the "ultimate softness series" and they have a NRR (noise reduction rating) of 32. And the scale only goes up to 30!

oh right, i'm supposed to be writing a paper [checks back at it]. Oh cool, I really ( Read more... )