So I can officially say that I will be working as a Mad Scientist next year.

Awesome quote on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (I typed it from memory, so I apologize to anoyone who's offended by mistaken words ( Read more... )

got the belly button pierced. go me. almost passed out afterward. wussy me. ah well.

finally got ahold of my friendsies!

Talking to my parents yesterday, I think I finally figured out why I'm afraid of dogs ( Read more... )

just saw the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 trailer for the first time. wow. there will be ilithids.

I think i'm allergic to my parents' house. I get two to three times as many migraines here as i do anywhere else.

You are a
Social Liberal
(75% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(23% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Strong Democrat

You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (93, -100)
modscore: (14, 45)
raw: (1842)

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Wow. I'm such a dork. gelishan and I decided to honor International Talk Like a Pirate Day by switching from the Putonghua that we normally yammer in to an exaggerated Beijing dialect, which uses the "ar" sound more frequently. We also decided to banish "liang" from our speach for the day, using "er" instead. And, we agreed that a good Chinese wench is ( Read more... )

I realized this weekend how incredibly blessed I am. There is so much love in my family that our cup literally runneth over. Of my grandmother's 37.5 descendents, 36 were at her funeral. The only ones who missed it are her daughter-in-law, who is in Thailand and not a US citizen, and her son's girlfriend (that's the half), who just found out ( Read more... )