I feel really odd right now. Not because this whole Covid thing is throwing a huge wrench into the workings of my life though. Quite the opposite in fact. I'm feeling remarkably fine. Which strikes me as strange given how extroverted I am in terms of my social energy. But here I am, sitting at home, not feeling couped up, not dying to get out of ( Read more... )

This evening as I went to brush my teeth, I saw a slightly larger than average spider walking across the floor. My first instinct was to capture it and put it outside like normal. But since this house has been suffering from a silverfish infestation, I decided to let it continue it's trek towards my housemate's mini fridge. (This particular ( Read more... )

The way things are in the world today, feels like the kind of circumstances that could create someone like Zorndyke from Blue Sub no.6 And I can empathize with that.
Suddenly Zorndyke doesn't seem so insane.
And that in itself is kind of terrifying.

Be Very Careful.

Well, technically it was two days ago, but the point is I learned something.
Apparently a common reaction from dogs when a human has a seizure is to freak out and bite the person having the seizure.

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After all the fuss of attending my Graduation, my family got confused and left the stadium before I crossed crossed the stage. Nobody was there to watch me graduate ( Read more... )

For as long as I've been studying Japanese, I still feel terrible at it. Particularly when it comes to forming original, unsolicited content. By that I mean, something that is not a response to a question, or directly related to a conversation going on around me. I can generally get by ok if I have some kind of prompt or specific thing I need to ( Read more... )

http://xkcd.com/1362/

Just once, I'd like to have a midterm or a final where I'm not horribly sick or in crippling pain.

Watching guilty pleasure shows on Netflix becomes problematic when you share an account with the rest of the household... I've stayed up an extra two hours watching stuff just to make sure it doesn't pop up on my "recently watched" list.