This might be long... Sorry in advance. Actually, it can't be too long because I only have an hour on the internet ( Read more... )

So I'm playing Kingdom of Loathing (sort of an RPG -- check it out at www.kindomofloathing.com) and I challenged two pirates to a drinking game... and it just sounded too much like Beastfest not to mention it ( Read more... )

This week's childish pleasure was learning that in Polish the verb "to be" is pronounced "bitch".  być. być ( Read more... )

Freed from the chains of Swarthmore my mind goes nuts. These past few days I have dreamed:

- That Annie and Scott S. invited me to come to Austria with them. I accepted.
- That I had a nifty blue parrot for a pet.
- That Hans actually went to Swarthmore and lived in Wharton.

So apparently both my gmail and my Swatmail were abducted and used to send spam? This came to my attention when I logged in yesterday to find 100+ "Mail Delivery Failure" messages clogging my inbox and my spam filter. Today my Swatmail spam quarantine had a similar number of similar messages to report. Apparently this just happens sometimes and I ( Read more... )

Even more than I expected, graduation wiped me out. I passed out in the car between five and seven. Somewhere between sleeping and waking I got confused and thought for a minute that my parents were taking me back to Swarthmore, where a chorus of friends might be waiting... This hasn't quite sunk in yet.

"Precision bombing was abandoned dramatically on the night of March 9-10, 1945, when 334 aircraft attacked Tokyo at low altitude with incendiary bombs, destroying sixteen square miles of the capital city and making more than a million people homeless. Between eighty thousand and one hundred thousand civilians died in the Tokyo raid-- "scorched and ( Read more... )

• The procrastination item today is... Language learning podcasts! My mom sent me the link. http://www.lifeclever.com/learn-35-languages-for-free-in-itunes/

I've downloaded eight episodes of "Let's Learn Hungarian!" It's a funny Hungarian woman and an ( Read more... )

I'm not crazy about this one, but the last panel is just for Swarthmore students.


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In lieu of doing something productive (e.g. finishing my interminable French paper) I am fiddling around with Pandora radio. I was pleased and disappointed when, after asking for "Talking Heads Radio" they have given me only songs I enjoy and listen to frequently. I'd like something new, but at least they're giving me what I like.