So everyone and their mom (actually, *my* mom, dad, brothers Mike and Alex, my friend Nate, and a couple of others) asked me if that was my picture with an "I voted" sticker on my forehead on the front page of CNN.com as the election results were coming in. No, it wasn't me, but it's totally something I would have done :)... and I did vote... Kind ( Read more... )

Hey guys, I know November 2nd is right around the corner, and since you're all friends of mine, I know that if you're US citizens, you've registered to vote. So this will be my first time voting (I became a citizen on March 17th) and I just found a really useful website: http://www.vote-smart.org/. I recommend typing in your zipcode to get a ( Read more... )

"Когда я чего нибудь не знаю, я иду на интернет." --папа
"Чего это я за него замуж вышла..." --мама

"When I don't know something, I go online, on the internet." --dad
"So why did I marry him..." --mom

It's sort of weird to think of my parents being married at twenty - I'm twenty! Well, I love them both for it, and I love our whole family and ( Read more... )

So I 'cooked' my first meal today - angelhair pasta with (already prepared) tomato & basil sauce, and fresh sweet grape tomatoes. It isn't much, but definetly a start! (previously, my 'first meal' here at the Colleges was a microwaved chicken bake - which only came a couple of days ago. This is pretty bad, because it means one of two things: I've ( Read more... )

DinaCloud: it's really nice to see you with a girl, seriously
DinaCloud: it was always baffling that you were single

me and my girlie in Tiburon (August 13th, Friday)

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...but the girls on the Russian Olympic Basketball Team are sooo cute. Молодцы, девчата!

I don't know about you guys, but I watch the Olympics just to hear Bob Costas' reassuring voice. He really cuts to the heart of each race, each sport, each competitor, revealing the human drama behind every competition.

Napoleon Dynamite meme below.
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who could have thought watching women's soccer at 4X could be this funny! :)

I stopped by Safeway as I walked home from Jon's house tonight, and decided to buy a cherry pie to cheer myself up - my mom spotted my blues in an instant, and asked what was wrong as soon as I came in earlier tonight, and even Jessi just told me I looked "spaced" when she ran into me yesterday. So I told her about how a coworker got married just ( Read more... )

"Cold hatred burning in your heart."

--William Baker

Will's a fellow Summer Advisor who has also become a good friend. He's going off to grad school at University of Illinois at Urbana-Chapaigne for English in the about a month, and I'm going to miss him, but I bet that we'll keep in touch ( Read more... )