Woohoo! 
going to D.C. for two days in April to meet cool important people and, my favorite part... tour the white house. 
west wing dreams CAN come true!

For my company of 120 people, there is one refrigerator in our dayroom. this fridge is for everyone's use and you may use it as long as you arn't disgusting, etc ( Read more... )

Dear Christopher ( Read more... )

"The reclusive dictatorship's dream of a nuclear arsenal dates back half a century, to the years just after the Korean War. Kim Il-sung, North Korea's founder, was acutely aware that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had requested nuclear weapons to use against his country during the conflict, and declassified documents show that he pressed his cold war ( Read more... )

 United States Coast Guard Cutter CONFIDENCE, Cape Canaveral (Patrick Air Force Base), FL ( Read more... )

www.theflorentine.net/articles/article-view.asp

a brief article in Florence, Italy's English newspaper "The Florentine"

 a week from tonight i find out where i'm going after i graduate. the next morning i leave for Italy for 10 days ( Read more... )

i'm not kidding. she can't know about this. she will flip a shit. feel free to laugh about it w/ me though ( Read more... )

 Today i made an intelligent and substantial comment in my capstone class in response to a teacher's question.
my mindset: ZOMG THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE THAT XKCD COMIC ABOUT UNIVERSAL TRUTHS...
::raises hand::
participation points drawing from outside knowledge and application? check.

-my teacher cannot say the word "bureaucracy"  correctly. instead, he inadvertently says "barackacy", which i find to be hilarious, especially because he doesn't realize it ( Read more... )