I am rreeaalllly sick of living with my roommate. I'm not even going to bother enumerating all the reasons why in my head, let along take the effort of typing them out here. Suffice it to say that she's been acting really self-centered, and since we have very different lifestyles, it's become a major problem ( Read more... )

Oh dear. I logged in thinking I could post a quick update, and realized that I haven't posted since May. Whoops. Well, I'll catch up on books and such later, but for now, I should probably mention that I'm in Japan. In fact, I went to Japan in August, left for Christmas, and just came back again ( Read more... )

I'm home again! Anyone in the area want to get together?

I saw The Avengers last night. It's fantastic, if you haven't seen it yet. I also saw the season finale of NCIS: Los Angeles (or at least, the end of it). At first, I was horrified (two of my favorite characters seemed to be getting removed from the series). Without going into too much ( Read more... )

Sorry if I'm missing updates from anyone - for the last few months my Friends page has only been displaying three posts (despite being set to five times that), and the buttons to see earlier posts have completely disappeared. I've been trying to fix it, but I don't know why it went in the first place and LJ's help section has been no help at all ( Read more... )

Yeah, that subject line pretty much says it all. Classes got pretty rough this semester (okay, one class got pretty rough [and for reasons completely unrelated to understanding the material], one class had a difficult project [group project; with undergraduates; who regularly skipped class and ignored the assignment] but was otherwise fun and ( Read more... )

Ick. I'm so behind on the books project. None of my classes this semester is reading books; it's all articles and chapters. I've had a busy semester, too, so not much time for outside reading. Unfortunately, I don't have time to update properly right now, but I want to at least get the books down.

14. The Maid by Tsutsui Yasutaka
15. The Girl ( Read more... )

I'm still alive! I've even been doing stuff. Like studying. Lots of studying. But I did some reading, too. My backlog's so big I've been avoiding posting here, so let me get it all out of the way in one shot ( Read more... )

As anticipated, the books are going a lot faster now that I'm not submerged in homework.

6. The Snow Queen by Mercedes Lackey ( Read more... )

Oops, I forgot the 26-anime project. I may have missed some, but I've definitely done one:

1. Princess TutuA fascinating series that mixes classic ballets with some hyper-modern anime tropes (i.e. magical girls) to make a fun, quick romp. I wrote a paper on this series which I'm happy to pass along if you want more details on the mechanics of it ( Read more... )

I'm home. I was a bit rushed getting out of town, but I'm back now and all is well. I've managed to visit various family members (some multiple times) and check in with some friends (though not enough yet). I've also started some chores, which is good since I've got a huge list before I go. If nothing else, I don't have anywhere to stay in ( Read more... )