It's been over a year since I posted anything in this damned electronic clap trap - and even now the only reason my mind's uncontrolled flailing finds itself on Livejournal is because I'm not sure where else I can put it without worrying about who sees it ( Read more... )

Hey everybody ( Read more... )

Closing out the time in India saw a mad dash of people buying up any souvenirs they'd forgotten to purchase in the month before. After leaving Bangalore we went to Delhi where, those of you who follow international news might know, there were/are a series of riots going on. Personally, I feel the series jumped the shark last season...but I'm ( Read more... )

And now for some history of why we call Thanksgiving "Thanksgiving" and not "T-Giving ( Read more... )

Greetings from the urine-soaked countryside of India where rickshaws drive fast and the ones aiming to hit you drive faster. But not really, since the average rickshaw is a de-glorified go-kart with a lawn mower engine attached to a sheet of metal with a bench fashioned out of the only imported faux-leather available in India (due to the whole “ ( Read more... )

Both things I haven't see in a very long time due to the fact that I neither like crackerjacks all that much and I was never too sure what a pollywog was but I always associated them with frogs ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had the special privilege of sitting on an intellectual debate between the equally famous fictional personas of the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz and the amphibian of Muppet-fame Kermit the Frog ( Read more... )

I can't imagine being on campus for this semester and with every passing day this resolution, this reality becomes more and more real. It's odd but ev after 7 weeks and having left 3 different countries behind besides the US, a certain aspect of the entire thing seems so surreal to me that I sometimes wonder if the experiences will have a lasting ( Read more... )

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So this is the preliminary posting of my LiveJournal...yay for this ( Read more... )