So, I got asked if I was a Brit today, by a Brit. Apparently "the accent's all wrong, but the personality's right. Maybe Welsh?" Apparently I have a very British sense of humor "very droll," my friend says. I dunno, I think it's an awesome complement.

Just a silly little thing that happened today.

So, it's Spring Break! YAY! And I'm spending it... mostly working on school stuff.. but that's cool to cause it's getting done and I've had some time to goof off. And best of all, the weather is nice. So I grabbed a book, The Handmaid's Tale to be precise and started and finished it over a few hours of wondering the river and the town from place to ( Read more... )

I hate having to write those stupid self-aggrandizing essays they have you write for scholarship applications and the like. It's a combination of a certain uncomfortable feeling I have with just, well, exposing my virtues, especially in an official sense. I mean, this is for MONIES! MONIES! I NEED THOSE! So it feels weird. The other major problem ( Read more... )

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So, having just spent the last hour helping a couple of people with the latest accounting chapter. I've been noticing I do this alot of late and I've started to receive some very nice praise for my help (having people who I've never even met who are in an entirely different section come and ask me because they've "heard of me" is high praise indeed ( Read more... )

Normally, I'm a fairly passive guy. Sure I'm a little out there, and a little arrogant at times, but generally not offensive and I keep my temper in check. I mean this to say that I very rarely have the urge to hurt someone. And, while maybe not the most physically imposing figure, I admit that I know a goodly amount of how to attack someone's ( Read more... )

Okay, so.. we just got a... fairly big paper back in my honor's American Politics class, and, as expected, the professor is a real hardliner. I got a B- on the paper, I am annoyed, but it is something I can recover from and I now know what I need to do for the next paper (mostly ask some questions and find out what I need to do ^_^), not a problem ( Read more... )

Run mortal...

I am unwell. Without going into the nasty detail I have a REALLY bad case of the flu. Getting to school and back the last few days has been an act of shear will. Fortunately, Wednesday classes were canceled due to massive snow so that helped some ( Read more... )

So, in response to all the vaguely angsty, generally well spoken and well reasoned, and overall derogatory comments made about Valentine's in the last day or so ( Read more... )