YEA!!! TOMORROW is Election Day. That means no more political adds that I have to suffer through. I am excited. I never thought I'd miss "real" commercials. But these political adds down here are awful ( Read more... )

So, I was going over a corrected essay I wrote for my Russian language class. I did okay and earned the grade I recieved, but the prof made a note on my essay that I found confusing ( Read more... )

So, I got this from BR and thought I should post it here, so she can read it too. Anyhow, as it is my rather depressed time of year, the funeral song got me thinking. I looked up the lyrics, and I want this song played when its my time ( Read more... )

You Passed the US Citizenship Test
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Hey all,

I am going to an evening with Jon Stewart tomorrow. A few of us are meeting up at my house at 8pm to car pool so we don't have to deal with the parking situation. Let me know if you want to join our carpool. Email me at de-simone.1@osu.edu for directions.

Toodles

So, its 12:30 in the morning and I'm sitting up downloading Classical Russian Music onto my laptop for a class I only grade for. But I do love some of his stuff...and why the hell don't we talk about Prokofiev (Peter and the Wolf...Romeo and Juliet)?

yeah, I'm a geek.

And yes I spelled it that way on purpose ( Read more... )

So, I stole this from Brandy...highly amusing especially the last couple...the death scene is my favorite ( Read more... )

So, things have settled down a bit. I've gotten into the routine of grad school life. Class, homework, folklore and Slavic extra curricular stuff, class planning, more homework, food and sleep in there somewhere. I'm still able to get 6-9 hours of sleep a night. Still drinking lots of caffeinated beverages. But that's to be expected ( Read more... )

So, the wonders of grad school with all the homework and strange hours has begun to take it's toll. I have once again become addicted to caffeine. I've gone from one caffinated drink every couple days to two or three or four a day. And I've been drinking more, too. Not a lot...but one glass just about every day. Of course, I did just by some ( Read more... )