i got into my study abroad program! it had been a week longer than they said it would take so finally i called them, and they told me i was accepted but they lost my file. it reminds of gw: complete disorganization that somehow fucks you over while still managing to take your money. but whatever, i'll be in copenhagen. now i can start on all them ( Read more... )

almost every week there's a clue in the times crossword puzzle related to the movie "the thin man." there's three in today's puzzle alone. i liked it too, but really will shortz, what's going on here? anyway if you have trouble with the crossword just see this movie, it will improve your clue-answering ability exponentially.

today i am talking to bob saget

it's over the phone but still

updates later on voice, love, etc

jimmy "papa smurf" mcmillan an actual candidate in the nyc mayoral election. rent is too damn high, and i would vote for him if a) i was bothering to vote in the nyc mayoral election b) i actually paid rent c) he didn't blame rent prices on "jewish groups." don't worry, it has nothing to do with actual jewish people. it's "jewish groups pretending ( Read more... )

this makes me miss home a lot.

i don't really have anything else to say. i have midterms (like it's a ( Read more... )

i haven't updated this thing in a long time. mostly because i no longer have free time. if i'm not in class, i'm at work, and it i'm not at work (okay, also when i am at work) i'm studying for my midterms or working on my midterm papers. but i didn't bring any of my books, and the nation wire isn't moving, so i figured i could devote a few minutes ( Read more... )

i was looking at a list of people in new york offering housing for hurricane victims (hurricanehousing.org, if you're interested). it's nice to see how many people are offering space. a few people specified that they would prefer a student or a traveler that was caught in new orleans, which seems to be code for "white, not poor person," but i can't ( Read more... )

in only a week i forgot how dirty new york is. i got off the bus and the sidewalk was lined with vomit and rotten food. normally that sort of thing makes me nostalgic, but i'd been on a bus from two to five-thirty in the morning with a hundred other people (apparently now even the overnight bus is crowded; at least i was drunk) and couldn't find ( Read more... )

i got an internship. then it turned out to be at a news organization run by moonies. god (or is that sun myung moon?) giveth and he taketh away ( Read more... )

ted leo, between a boat and a pizzeria uno, makes me happy to be alive. as do all-night diners and sometimes, gw students.

we'll see how long that lasts; i'm back at school.