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The story begins with the hero strangling the villain on his own bed...
It's unfortunate that some of my best story ideas come to me when I'm under pressure to get eighty things done at once.
I'm applying to JET for next year, wish me luck!
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For Sale? Lessons learnt, lessons burnt.
I try my best to think through my online purchases before I reach for the ol' credit card, but my judgment seems to have fallen through this time, as I've spent an embarrassing amount of money on a huge box of incense scent unsmelled, only to receive it and find that it's not to my taste... and now I have 449 sticks of it.
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Summer Reading List (now stickied for great justice)
Street of a thousand blossoms / Gail Tsukiyama.
Teahouse fire / Ellis Avery.
Ramayana : a dramatic retelling of the great Indian epic / David Farr.
Mahabharata : a shortened modern prose verion of the Indian epic / by R.K. Narayan
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The fuck did I do?
Okay, so I have an almost completely different for realz lulz class schedule.
TR 12:30 Intro to Sociolinguistics
TR 2:00 Pidgins and Creoles
MWF 2:00 Morphology
MWF 3:00 Computational Linguistics
And the tuition issue was caused by the registrar having me down as an undergrad (lolwat), so once I got that changed my tuition got fixed but then my aid ( Read more... ) -
Nenshin! Gattai! GO, Aquarion!
I got my financial aid letter in the wall and it is sweet, but seriously, it's only been a few days since I got it but it's already nailed my fiscal responsibility to the wall and uh... yeeeeaahhh. I spent $50 on incense last night. I might also buy myself a computer chair and a cot pad. (Dunno if I mentioned this before, but that cot I bought ( Read more... ) -
Must... resist... nap...
There are rumors on the wind that Tulane intends to expand the main library either by jacking it up two more floors or tacking some kind of annex on the back of it, which means Special Collections would move back across the street ( Read more... ) -
Convention post-mortem
The Good:
I made it to most of the panels I attempted to attend. There was even a Matsumoto Leiji panel, but the guy who was supposed to run it abandoned it to his less knowledgeable friend. There were actually a couple people in the audience who the poor guy would have been justified in calling up to help him out. (With all modesty, I wrote a paper ( Read more... ) -
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Uggh, first day at work as a new graduate was a bucket of fun. When I wasn't hauling heavy crap up into rare or down into manuscripts, I watched the bruises on my body from yesterday and the day before turn funny colors...
Oh, yes, let us start at the beginning.
I gradumacated on Saturday and the rain kept me from moving my stuff out while my folks ( Read more... ) -
We must be running some sort of rain deficit by now.
Grades out. The professor who was the most inflexible about deadlines was naturally the last one to turn grades in, a week late ( Read more... ) -
I am and always will be your friend.
So uh, I've run through my entiiiiiiiire list of Things To Do On The Internet While Pretending To Write The Last Paper of My Undergraduate Career, and... here I am at "Update your livejournal, for chrissake."
So
Hi.
I think I've done this before, picking up where I left off months ago with an awkward hello and a blank look.
I'm graduating in a week now ( Read more... )