So I applied to go on a birthright trip to Israel with a couple of my friends over winter break. I guess I'll interview for it sometime this week and then see what happens, but I'm really excited, it'd be so cool if we all got to go together. It will seriously cut down on my time at home in SB over winter break (10 day trip, 3 week break...) and I ( Read more... )

Note: This is long, feel free to not read it. I also started writing it about 2 weeks ago and resumed it today, so everything in the first paragraph that says "a week" means "three weeks." ( Click here to read. )

Dude, so tonight I got electrocuted for the first time ever, besides those stupid things in physics class. It was pretty intense, I'm not gonna lie. I took my old hard drive out of my computer and put it in an external case, but I didn't have all the pieces for the case, so it's just a hard drive sitting on top of a static bag w/no top on the case ( Read more... )

So I thought I wasn't gonna have anything to do these couple weeks towards the beginning of school & after COOP. I was wrong. I mean, some of the stuff I've had to do has been trivial (i.e. a day of shopping with Christopher), but all the same I've had very little time to just chill & be bored. So, updates are coming about COOP, sailing, school & ( Read more... )

OMFG. SO. Last night, I'm watching Stella w/Danny & a whole other cast of shady characters and there's this scene where they're in an airport. And it's like just ramps and a few levels and stuff and I'm like WHAT airport looks like that?!?!? Then I'm like hmm... so I lean in a little closer and it's like oh... wait... that looks like Columbia... ( Read more... )

Oh yeah and thanks everybody for the birthday wishes/presents. I had a good time w/friends here and am very much looking forward to getting back to school & celebrating with everyone there.

Happy Birthday to Mike (my birthday buddy) and the multitudes of people who celebrate today- Diana B., Morganne, Harry Potter, etc.

So the other day I'm watching the Daily Show with the family and it's this right-wing guy, Bernard Goldberg, on for the interview. So he wrote this book called "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37)." I have never seen Jon Stewart be so brutal to any guest. I mean generally he tries to make nice (somewhat) to everyone even ( Read more... )

This is like the coolest thing ever. I found it in Thor's profile. It's awesome if you have patience and a sick sense of what "fun" is like I do. It may help to be an engineer.

finished at 8:55, about 5 hours and 40 minutes after starting. i will reveal nothing more.

update: it came a little after 3 w/the rest of the mail. yay!