~I'm starting to put together ideas for my grad school applications. Naturally, I'll be doing a different entrance essay for each school, and each essay will focus on what I hope to achieve at each different school. I'm still brainstorming, but here's the list so far (they're also arranged chronologically for which school I hope to be accepted to ( Read more... )

 ~Converting Youtube videos into mp3's has to be my favorite way around having to buy songs for $2 off iTunes. It's still evilly illegal, much like underage drinking and dogs off leashes in public places. The only helpful thing I've learned in Anthro of Law is a website, www.dumblaws.com. Did you know it's illegal to serve margarine in Wisconsin ( Read more... )

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past." -Karl Marx

~So hey. It's been a while! A whole chunk of a year, in fact. I've gone to Japan, and returned! I've also returned to LJ, despite ( Read more... )

 ~The Hamm brothers were selected from the 2008 Olympics Men's Gymnastics Team. Be still my beating heart.

~No, I'm kidding, Windows is a great operating system. I just found this video deliciously funny, especially if you're familiar at all with video editing programs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30LQY3xWEI&eurl=http://www.joshuazimmerman.com/blog/2007/07/

 ~So here's a question for ya ( Read more... )

Hey look out for that moving van driving down our streets,
You better lock up your man before he meets
The new girl in town
who just came on the scene
The new girl in town
can't be more than sixteen
and she's got a way of making a boy
act like a clown
woo-oo-oo
We don't know what to do
about the new girl in town.

And yet we'd like to
be like her
'Cause she's ( Read more... )

~I know this is kind of pathetic, emo-ish, but today while I was checking the Yahoo JET boards, I ran across an article dealing with research on whether being "fit but fat" was possible. This is a big deal to me, because I have always considered myself in that category.... at 5' and 130 pounds, I have a BMI of 25, which is considered overweight. ( Read more... )

 ~Call me old-fashioned, but I find something wrong with surrogate mothers. Not particularly for obvious reasons, like the squeamish reality that it's somebody else's baby in your body or that your husband's sperm is hanging out in another woman, but more so because I can't get over this obsession we have with making our children our own mirror- ( Read more... )

My Weekend: Paperwork and a horrible cold.

..... I know, you're jealous.