I was doing laundry (and am still waiting for my clothes to finish) and figured I might as well spend some time writing again. I'm sure all of you thought I had stopped writing; I just took a very, very long hiatus. So, now that I'm back, what should I talk about? I don't want to create an ultra-long entry (though my entries tend to be long anyway ( Read more... )

What did your school do for Constitution Day? Mine decided to have an event where at 12:15 pm, apparently the time the Constitution was signed, people read the Constitution, along with various other speeches about the Constitution. In addition, there was a guy dressed up as Benjamin Franklin handing out a copy of the Constitution to people. I got ( Read more... )

I leave for the airport in one hour. I hope to see everyone when I get back.

When people ask me what China is like, my first response is that China is smoggy. Today was especially bad. It was so bad that from the dining hall to the library, a distance of perhaps only 100 feet, one could see the smog. It was so bad that, after someone opened the dormitory's hallway windows, I could not clearly see from one end of the hallway ( Read more... )

Compared to some people, I don't often write in this LiveJournal, though granted my entries tend to be longer. Lately, it seems as though I update roughly once a month. I update at such a slow pace that if you look at the bottom of this page, you will see an entry from before I left for college. No, I didn't read it, nor do I intend to, but it ( Read more... )

There's tons of noise outside, and it's been going on for the past several hours. There are people everywhere doing really stupid and/or strange stuff, like being led blindfolded through Old Campus, doing the hokey pokey, screaming on and on for no reason, and (telephone) pole dancing on Elm St. dressed only in lingerie. It's not just partying ( Read more... )

One of my suitemates told me about one time when he went to a guest lecture by some professor, the professor said, "I can't imagine being in the part of the country that doesn't read The New Yorker." In response, lately on my floor there have been several references to The New Yorker. Actually, saying there have been several references is a bit of ( Read more... )

I thought about going through all of February without an update, but I figured I should update anyway. My last entry was January 5, so it's been a long time. Nonetheless, I'll try to keep this entry on the short side, to accommodate all you readers who have short attention spans ( Read more... )

I'll get to talking about my ordeal at the airport some other time, maybe when I go back to Yale next week. In the meantime ( Read more... )

(This first paragraph I wrote a few days ago, which is why it doesn't really fit with the rest of this entry. And yes, it is 6:35 am ( Read more... )