It seems like I do not need a visa to travel to Canada. Will call the consulate tomorrow to make sure. But this is good! Yay!

I was planning such a trip to Reykjavik! Foiled again by visa requirements. Why do I need to appear in person, during an extremely narrow time frame in New York to get an Icelandic Visa ( Read more... )

I was trying to figure out what the difference between a political party and a political designation in MA was. I emailed the MA elections commission to no avail However, reading an article about ballot access for the Libertarian party in MA answered this question ( Read more... )

If you do, and are thinking... Well my state is bluer than the sky in a clear day, so it doesn't matter whom I support, I am going to sleep in on Nov. 4., Please reconsider. There are three ballot questions on the MA state ballots, and if you support some of these, do your civic duty and fill in some bubbles ( Read more... )

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In my new Mini Cooper S. So Exciting!!

I was freaking out for most of the ride, but it really was not hard. I got sort of lost in medford for a few minutes, but made it on 93 eventually.

Yay driving!

Apparently I have to look through my thesis to replace instances of " with `` to make my backquotes mark up properly in latex. Haha...typesetting sucks.

Also, it is my birthday, and I deserve presents! Or, at the very least, wellwishes.

I rock. Is all.

After a couple of headaches this weekend, I'm thinking some percentage of my headaches might be food related, so I'm keeping a food journal from now on. The triggers during the weekend seemed like they could have been chocolate (but not caffeine given external sources of caffeine don't seem to be triggering it), cheese, or nuts (almonds in ( Read more... )

There is wikipedia in Simple English! http://simple.wikipedia.org/ Which means english with 850 words or 1500 words most of the time, and simple grammar, only basic tenses and no passive voice. If they need to use more complicated words, they either link them to the dictionary, explain ( Read more... )