We got our new Russian textbook today- the second Haчaлo in the series. Some of the people from my class last semester and I have been quite amused by the antics of the characters in the dialogs that open every subsection of each chapter ( Read more... )

The premiere of season 4.5 starts tomorrow night! So, we're having people to my house over for the occasion. We plan to watch the infomercial(?) "The Top 10 Things You Need to Know About BSG" that the writers aired last week, as well as the last couple of episodes of 4.0 ( Read more... )

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP LOSING MY GODDAMNED PAPERWORK?!?!

ahem.

I found tango music again. I had forgotten how much I enjoy it (and the dancing too.) People should go to this website: Plastic Tango. It has playlists of tango, vals, and milonga rhythms, as well as fusion-tunes and songs not originally meant to be danced to, but nonetheless work. I am fond of John Powell's "Assassination Tango" (under 'tango ( Read more... )

Hmmphrrrg. That is how I feel right now ( Read more... )

Just got home from Jeff's watching the election results (and also, Stargate Atlantis). What a wonderfully gracious, and might I add, classy (thanks, the_apricot!), concession speech that Sen. McCain delivered.

Also, Obama's speech. Damn, dude. That was something else.

Kudos to both of their speech writers. Win.

Whatever happened to Joan Wilder's cat at the end of Romancing the Stone?

( SGA 5.11 )

An email sent from my Russian professor:

( Dorogiie studenty, )

During the middle of a dance at class on Monday, I had a thought.
Reasons I should not go into Astrophysics: #1. I will end up like just like Dr. Rodney McKay. #37. Quantum mechanics.

That is all.