giant. tears.and i am yet to mail the the card i meant to send around christmas. well, looks like that shan't happen. and the engineering department should have a memorial service soon. well they'd better, because the woman was just wonderful, and inspiring, and was frank and candid and stubborn and opinionated, yet wasn't completely tactless. sigh ( Read more... )

this time last year i was on a plane, edinburgh-bound ( Read more... )

so i read about this and thought, oh my, madras, that's my home. and granted, no one i know would be doing anything near the beach on a sunday morning. but i figured i should check in anyway. can't get through to india. grr phone lines, who do you hate me so? i think i should call my parents. oh and i talked to nan on yahoo and she had more to say ( Read more... )

This is the kind of procrastination that puts the facebook to shame. i average about 2.5s seconds per track which is nifty given my reaction time at this hour. it's about 4.5s for orbital and squarepusher and aphex twin and that makes me quite sad because next to elliott smith, that equals the music i most listen to ( Read more... )

tad past 5:30am. if i had an exam to take in a few hours, you could guarantee i'd be asleep this very moment. but since i'm done with the one exam i was completely dreading (ECE 607, don't ask me how it went because i read the questions, my brain recognized them as being english words, but i had no fucking idea what it meant. and it wasn't like i ( Read more... )

so i spent break eating and sleeping and playing stupid computer games for hours on end ( Read more... )

so i gots pixies tickets to my name. since no other opening acts were listed, i figured it shall be just pixies and then an early-ish (by concert standards) B43 back to noho ( Read more... )

after much deliberation, i've decided that i shall make use of all of the 24 allowed credits. it shall be a very stressful semester, but it shall be worth it. yes. and worst case, i can take something S/U (probably swedish). looks like this right now ( Read more... )

had an exam today. clearly didn't study for it because someone decided to spend 9 8 hours in front of lamont's tv. yes, 8. and only because we had about an hour of gumboot practice in between. and then i spent some more time in front of the tv as soon as kerry announced his concession. thought he was going to deliver his official concession speech ( Read more... )

so the new elliott smith album finally hit record stores in my vicinity. i got my copy at b-side this afternoon and have been listening to it ever since.

and dear god, it is beautiful.