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Beijing!
Not 24 hours ago I was standing on the Great Wall of China, and now I'm back at my desk at work. Usually on trips I write up long journal entries in a notebook, but this time I'm typing it out and printing it out, lol. And since I'm typing it out anyway, I'm going to share it on lj, so it's definitely much more personal than the stuff I usually ( Read more... ) -
I am not thrilled with the opposite sex of late
There's a certain segment of white maledom who think they are God's gift to women--the ones I am most exposed to are the kind who think they are God's gift to Korean women particularly, because Korean men are short/effeminate/abusive/bad at sex/have small penises/insert stereotype here. Lovely human beings these people are, but I usually manage to ( Read more... ) -
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If it doesn't work out this time, I'm just going to fucking write myself off as undateable.
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Ruminations on Osama
I know I'm mostly keeping lj for my own posterity nowadays. Most people have left and I have so much on here I don't think I'd feel comfortable adding anybody new even if I knew anybody who still used it. But I've had it so long I just can't let it go!
So. Osama bin Laden. What is there to say? For a split second I thought it was an April Fool' ( Read more... ) -
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Professors who make you write your own recommendation: I believe there's a always a place for a polite "no." If you really cannot write the recommendation yourself, you're putting the student in an awkward-as-hell position by making them write it, and making yourself look lazy or dishonest. I think it's much better to just say, "Sorry, I have no ( Read more... ) -
That's it
I've got my plan B. If grad school in Korea doesn't pan out, I'm teaching English in the Middle East.
It always feels nice to figure out your plan B.
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What do you guys think
when you make plans with someone, especially when the plans are your idea, and then, without asking you about it beforehand, they just invite someone else along? Am I alone in thinking this is inexcusably rude behavior? Some people's mentality seems to be, "the more the merrier," but would it kill you to say something first? Especially when the ( Read more... ) -
Stress
It always seems to come in cycles. It's probably a product of being such a procrastinator, at least in part.
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I'm never au courant with music
I kind of discover things at my own pace. In that spirit, here's something from (I think) 2009:
Incidentally, I hate that I am now older than basically every member of every boy or girl K-pop band. There really is no justice.
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