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something pretty neat happened today. i had an oral midterm in german today for which i had to flex my german muscle and talk about current themes in germany. Although there were some god-awful sentences that in terms of grammar would be put to shame by someone pretending to speak dutch, there were a number of times where pure german flowed off my tongue without effort, like melted dark chocolate. After the midterm, I had to ask someone for the time, but my english felt wrong and out of place. I had to repeat myself to the person and even after the second time, it took them a moment to realize that I was asking what time it was. It felt really cool because I noticed that I would've rather been speaking german, and could've conveyed the thought much quicker and more coherently. One thing I look forward to most when I get back from DE (whenever I finally get there) is the culture shock and the inability to speak english. That's when I know I'll be fluent.
Then later today, I picked up the book we're reading in 398 and realized that I was understanding and absorbing everything. No skipping sentences, no porous comprehension, just drinking it all in. It felt wonderful.
Right now though, I'm fucking ass fucking shitty god damn fucking tired. I'm going to go to sleep.
ALRIGHT AWESOME
can you believe this? america is AWESOME GO USA!!! I think we ALL know who we have to thank for this; even though israel dropped the bombs, we gotta hand it to George Double-ewe Bush for his fantastic work in the WAR ON TERROR!!!
this is a war people, a WAR! and people die and they have to or else its not really war. we are the GOOD GUYS and they are the BAD GUYS!!!! Man i'm so glad to be a good guy. Imagine how much it SUCKS to be a bad guy! we have the BEST MILITARY IN THE WORLD! that makes me feel so good. SO good. Again, who to take but the GWB himself? GWB wit da WMD keepin' da peace for U n ME!
RED WHITE BLUE! AAWWWOOO BABY HAMBURGERS AND ROCK N ROLL! BASEBALL FORD AND BAZOOKA BUBBLE GUM!
Hey, terrorist. You want a hurtz donut?
(terrorist) durrr YES!
BAM! hurtz donit!? AHHAHAHA
oh hello! i osama bin laden! i think america has a dumb chirch no go blow yourself up! you will get lots of willing virgins in the afterlife!
HARRO! I AYMAN al-ZAWAHIRI!!! i have crush on OSAMA!! NO TELLS! or ferro militants will put CAVE DIRT IN COT! oh no there osama! hi osama!
hello HYMAN AL-ZALHWAWARI!! i hear you say OSAMA'S NAME! did you clean FEET after saying OSAMA NAME??
SHIT OF GOD I DIDN'T! excuse so i go can!
dur dur dur stupid terrorists! don't you know we have NIGHT VISION!? don't you know we have bombs that track your dirty terrorist smell!? GIVE UP WE ARE AMERICA WE NEVER LOSE!
as one could gather from the sheer drop in regular posting, i don't have a whole lot to say here, nothing interesting anyway. sure, stuff has happened, both great and grim, but it just seems a little lame to report back here when it happens.
As it turns out, there's a nice section on suprnova devoted to Sifl & Olly episodes, my discovery of which felt as excellent as waking up to a breakfast cooked for you. I downloaded one of them, but it's been slow-going ever since due to a lack of seeds and the mother fucking penalty box which turns my already flaccid 10mbit connection into essentially a broken 56K modem.
I'm getting what I wanted tonight, which is a relaxing evening to myself with my reading and my braggot (this honey ale stuff that I got in Vermont). Besides satisfying my curiosity about the taste itself, I think I'm drinking it tonight because I actually miss Vermont, sort of a toast to honor the latest major fond memory added to my brain. I'll be drinking from my Magic Hat 20oz pub glass also from VT (maybe these glasses have another official name...) and coincidentally wearing one of the shirts I got there, so the whole homage-to-something thing works out pretty well.
Here's a haiku about plaster of paris:
Smells like newspaper
You need to construct a frame
To build a creature
How about one for being discolored:
I don't look normal
I feel fine, but I'm yellow
Could this be jaundice?
That about does it for me.
I gave up on studies tonight. I have the better part of a german midterm to finish by Friday. Also on Friday I have to do a class-long presentation about German beer, which means tomorrow evening I am completely tied up making visual aids and figuring out what the heck my partner and I can talk about. We're bringing in examples for sampling, which is cool. Also for Friday, I have to write a page about something, but I don't know what yet. That's German too. Of more immediate importance is the 10 point reading quiz for chinese civ tomorrow. I haven't touched the 120 pages of reading required to get full credit, which sucks because I've already given up on even trying. I don't mind much though. Last week (before break) I read everything and still didn't manage to break my streak of 7/10. I'm a little sick of this stuff now. Chinese history would be cool if I didn't have to digest so much of it at one time.
Spring break, Vermont.
Spring break woke up my brain. It was hectic at the beginning (almost not even making it because Bethlehem cab service is on par with a massage by an angry Russian man). Then it was surreal as the plane made its final approach to Burlington. I am a little pissy right now, so I don't want to describe it, but it was cool.
Shit. I am at a loss right now. There's too much.
yeah, gonna be saying more stuff here. soon