I graduated today. Magna cum laude. Departmental honors. Woot.

Unfortunately, I still have two murals to finish before my 5:something PM flight tomorrow. My last night at college, and it's a panicked, rushed all-nighter. Go figure.

Anyway, congrats to Kami and Dori, for their respective congratulatory accomplishments.

I wrote my entire thesis in exactly a week (actually, slightly less than that). And most of the research was conducted in the half-a-week time span before then. To top it off, I had to give a 20-minute powerpoint presentation on it this morning, which I made on my mini-laptop while the other students were giving theirs. By the time it was my ( Read more... )

Recent upticks in Internet-distributed video quality has just been astounding. Take for example, the following link (be sure to click on the "HD" button... it might take some time to load ( Read more... )

Sleep? What the fuck is that ( Read more... )

I am so over the thesis writing process. SO OVER IT

It always amazes me the degree to which people are incapable of writing flowing, easily coherent, what-boils-down-to-mere pieces of communication. I am currently referring to the students at my school, who are undoubtedly well above the average in this regard. I keep telling myself that maybe they were tired, or frantically composed the ( Read more... )

It's the first hot day of the year, and the dorm smells funny (I think someone was cooking burgers on a George Foreman grill?), so I opened the windows to get some air. It is so loud outside you'd think we were in the middle of a city, not the suburbs. Folks, it's the weekend before classes end! Theoretically, virtually everyone on this campus ( Read more... )

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Imagine the worst anime-knock-off American cartoon you've ever seen. No, worse, worse, okay, that one. Now reduce the art staff down to one person, kill the budget, and oh by the way, it's actually a promotional video for World Bank ( Read more... )

SO, yesterday, my sister and I watched all three Lord of the Rings movies (extended versions) back-to-back. As in, the longest break we took was between movies (when I frantically ran upstairs to get something resembling a meal), and those breaks were only four minutes. And we didn't take a single break except to switch DVDs (there were six in ( Read more... )