I guess I haven't really updated in a while. So it goes! But as always, what is everything to me is probably nothing to you, so I'll just give you the skeleton of tonight. Perhaps you might see where it went ( Read more... )

This is what happens to Landwind, the new Chinese SUV, at 40 mph (first four videos, click 'video starten').

As you can see, The driver gets at least decapitated, probably dismembered in several places. For the metric users, 40 mph is average cruising speed for your average road. Can only imagine what would happen on the freeway :/

Eli The Barrowboy, from the new Decemberists album, is the most beautiful song I've heard in a long, long time. If you want it, I'll send it to you. That is all.

So we were doing paper conferences in Greek today, which meant the vast majority of us were sitting out in the hall during classtime. Mr. McCombs stood in the middle of the hall, at the end, looking completely baffled. He verbally mused as to what the hell we could be doing, and as he took a sip from the water fountain, asked if we were all from ( Read more... )

This is an interview with the mayor of New Orleans. About 11 minutes long and very, very well worth your time.

So my boss called me this morning saying it's raining like hell, so he'll see me tomorrow. This is after I took yesterday off to recover.

Grrrr. Need. Money.

A shoutout to the people back home ( Read more... )

I got the job at the farm. I rule!

...kind of.

So living with Liz gives me easy access to a shitton of Sex and the City, and it just has me asking questions about the issues of high society and the pressure put on students, because a lot of us are essentially now deciding where in that we want to go, to whatever extent for whatever reason we have that option. It's something we ask a lot about ( Read more... )

So they found a small bag of marijuana seeds in my car, and as a result, I cannot get a Canadian work permit (Secret message to Jessi: hush, I know). I could whine and complain, but I won't. Moving forward cos I have to, y'know? I just miss my cat ( Read more... )