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Ongoing Birthday/Christmas List 2009
Okay so I can never decide what I actually want for my birthday and/or Christmas so I am just going to keep this post as an ongoing list. Theoretically when I come up with something my heart desires I will just throw it up here and then I don't have to spend hours internet shopping to find something. So here it goes ( Read more... ) -
The Magic of Hans-Wehr
Part of our homework for the night was to go out and buy the Arabic-English Hans-Wehr dictionary. We are learning how to looking things up in the dictionary which is always a good skill to have, but this does not have an English-Arabic component and looking things up in Arabic is a little stressful. You have to go through the word you don't know, ( Read more... ) -
How I Came to Own the Ugliest Pair of Shoes Known to Man and Other Stories
I did so well with posting for that one week but then things kind of got crazy so here I am backing up and filling in the time for those of you who are actually interest in what I do with my time ( Read more... ) -
Nerdiness and YouTube
Alright so I am taking Constitutional Development and parts of the masses of homework we have each night are to watch little videos on YouTube. I thought I would share a couple of them.
The XYZ Affair
The Alien and Sedition Acts
These two are "ads" someone put together for the election of 1800.
1800 Anti-Jefferson Ad
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Baby's First Protest Rally And Getting Back Into the Groove
Alright so school started Tuesday. For those not aware of my schedule, I am taking: American Constitutional Development I, The Supreme Court and Public Policy, First Year Arabic II, and Intro to the Middle East II. Thankfully all of these are not as hard as I had been told. The Supreme Court and Public Policy is actually a very basic class, show up ( Read more... ) -
True Friendship
Tonight I learned the true definition of friendship ( Read more... ) -
Arabic Bonding
Since the beginning of the semester, there has been one courtyard in particular that I essentially make my home during the day. There is a nice fountain, providing calming background noise, plenty of seating if you get there before the lunch crowd, a few massive trees for shade when its warm, and a nice balcony that gets direct sunlight all day to ( Read more... ) -
Exciting Science
Alright well as I was youtubing a song, these two videos showed up and I had to share them. On the first just skip to 3:11 and watch the dance... Oooo Hy-dro-gen Bonds! And teh second one is short and sweet but highly amusing as well. I would like science a lot more if I had someone put it all into hysterically odd videos.
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Adventures in Arabic
Due to a certain beloved sister's graduation I have found myself in a bit of a difficult situation regarding Arabic lately. I have been working double time on my homework, trying to get all of it done for the classes i'm going to miss when I leave town on Friday, but it turns out that Arabic does not lend itself well to this rushed, half-assed ( Read more... ) -
Bleeding Orange
After two year of attending a university that is completely football free, I have to say that the spectacle of Austin on a game day was a bit surreal. It seemed like all of Austin was pulling for UT as they covered themselves in burnt orange from head to tow. Hardly a single person that came in to eat at Pappadeaux was not wearing some kind of UT ( Read more... )
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