I am at home and therefore have fewer qualms about staying up until 2:30 am, as I don't have 9 am class tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, or the next day. I do, however, have it the day after that. Crap. Why can't spring break be two weeks long? Then I could play Age of Empires III  AND get my bajillion pages of reading done.

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There is something strangely prescient about finishing your short paper on Shostakovich just as the recording on Shostakovich 5 that you're listening to strikes its final chords ( Read more... )

Dear Russian History ( Read more... )

It is 3:23 and I am awake by chance and by choice ( Read more... )

Long weekends are so deceptive. They convince you that you have all the time in the world and leave you to make poor sleep-related decisions and revel in the joys of not having to wake up early or have any work to do. When you come to, you realize that it's the afternoon or evening before class, you've done no work and you are more tired than you ( Read more... )

This week was a little stressful, which i didn't realize until I actually stopped to think about it. A lot of this most likely due to the fact that I started going to sleep at 2 and 3 AM again, which may seem early to some, but does not provide me with enough unconsciousness when I have to get up for 9 AM Class. Damn. Still, I managed to get a lot ( Read more... )

I would like to be very a non-stereotypical livejournal writer in this moment and just say that I LOVE MY LIFE! If this continues for much longer, I might have to quit livejournal. The purpose of livejournal, as everyone knows, is to be angsty ( Read more... )

I recently stumbled across a mash-up of footage from Barney (the big purple dinosaur) set to "Crank That" by Soulja Boy. Through curiousity and related videos, I was also able to discover Soulja Boy mash-ups of the following ( Read more... )

Just finished watching Dial M for Murder-- a very different Hitchcock movie, since it was originally a play staged within one room. I've seen it as both a play and and a film now, and it's just a fantastic work. Even though it wasn't written by Hitchcock, it functions very much like a typical Hitchcock film-- building up expectations in the ( Read more... )

THE PRIVILEGE QUIZ

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