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(kinks not yet worked out.)

 this livejournal is getting killed. it has a long, illustrious history but it's going to die now.

for anyone reading this, please know that this blog is not linked anywhere. if you are somehow reading this, you got this link out of me personally and managed to keep up with this even though it doesn't update to readers and whatnot. i appreciate this ( Read more... )

many little creatures are throwing screaming tantrums in my head right now.

but. have to convince myself that everything is fine.

deep breath. everything is fine.

a pretty great little podcast from "This American Life" about True Urban Legends

Segment Two is pretty awesome, about refugees' disbelief about American life.
Extremely sad and funny at the same time is the story at 42:30 about an Iraqi man encountering a homeless person for the first time.

kind of related, my parents remember lots of surprises when ( Read more... )

i spilled tea on my keyboard. Most of the keys seem to have recovered, except for the "v." Which is particularly annoying, because I think, oh i'll just copy-paste it in every time. Except then i tap ctrl+c and then... ctrl+ (tap tap... tap tap tap)... oh yeah.

gar.

people asked me recently, now that i'm vegetarian, what do i crave? i hadn't bothered to think about this, and really what popped into my head was something along the lines of "i dunno... good food?"

i think i wallow in food blogs so often and have googled "home remedy for ___" so many times that i forget that people don't necessarily see their ( Read more... )

i totally trip out on endorphin rushes after going to the gym. it's awesome. when i worked out in the afternoon, it scared my suitemates because i'd come back sweaty, achy, and DAMN CHEERFUL. it lasted through a shower and dinner. it was unseemly. so i started working out in the wee hours of the morning ( Read more... )

today someone tried to impress me by using the word "copious."

i was unimpressed.

someone talked to me on the subway today about my hair. the blackness of it. the straightness of it. the... asian-ness of it. he told me never to dye it. he informed me that asian hair is the strongest of all hair types. and some other stuff which doesn't bear repeating ( Read more... )

people get all huffy when you talk about "white privilege" or "male privilege." i think this has something to do with America's hatred for classism, because the word makes people think of haughty people who don't know how good they have it. swap out "haughty," and that's probably about right. but you can't tell people who don't know how good they ( Read more... )