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Mar. 6th, 2010 09:54 pm
alexiscartwheel: (chuck - at the beach)
I've got a new layout! (It's really an old layout with a new header and a couple of tweaks, but still.) The last one was very wintery, so I thought now that it's March I should move on, and since I'm into Chuck right now, why not make that the theme? Plus, it gave me something to do besides reading job postings.

Both of my roommates are gone for the week, one in California and one in London. I get the entire apartment to myself! I never have to watch The Real World or Millionaire Matchmaker or Real Housewives of Anywhere! How am I celebrating? Eating cereal for dinner, putting in a couple loads of laundry*, and watching North by Northwest. Yeah, I really know how to live on the wild side.

I'm invited to an Oscar party tomorrow. Not that I really care about the Oscars at all, but hanging out with some friends with food and drink is much more my speed than going out. So tomorrow I should actually leave my apartment (going next door to Giant, which I did today because I needed milk for my cereal—and ice cream—hardly counts).

It's almost my birthday. Woo! My mom is going to make cake, which is pretty much the most exciting thing about birthdays. What can I say, I like sweets! :D

*Special laundry sidenote: When I went down to the laundry room, none of the washers and dryers were in use, but there was a woman sitting in the little lunge area watching a Caps game. I wonder if she doesn't have a TV in her apartment or if she really just likes watching hockey in the laundry room.

Geek time!

May. 22nd, 2009 08:47 am
alexiscartwheel: (dw - four and romana)
Today's xkcd is about Mathnet! You know, the crime segment in Square One? The awesomest math show ever to hit PBS?

(Shut up, [livejournal.com profile] d4ni, PBS is cool, and I totally did not have a lame childhood.)

grrrrr

Feb. 24th, 2009 03:13 pm
alexiscartwheel: (bones - brennan and booth)
"The Schedule of Classes will be available on the web February 23rd."

HEY UNIVERSITY REGISTRAR, YOU PROMISED ME A SCHEDULE! GIMME!

This actually matters a lot, beyond my normal obsession with timetables. (My college roommate and I were kind of insane about drawing up potential schedules.) The course selection for fall will determine (in part) whether I'll graduate in December 2009 or June 2010. That's a whole six months! (Which as we all know is plenty of time to relocate halfway across the country.) Of course, registration isn't for a month, so I've got time to think, and of course money is a factor, but I'm still impatient.

In other news, I was walking out of Gelman Library today and say a girl dressed in a polar bear costume walking out of Starbucks.

Yeah, okay, fine... I'll go back to reading about appraisal now.
I don't usually read the LJ "Writer's Block" questions, but I happened to see that today's was about The New York Times.

The New York Times was first published on this day in 1851. How important is print news to you? Does the internet render circulation obsolete, or will print never die?

Now, if I wanted to argue about print versus online periodicals, I could just go to class, so instead I offer you an "I am such a nerd" anecdote. Mom laughed at me when I told her this last night.

I get the NYT headlines e-mail every morning. Most days I read several news stories, and I follow the Opinion page religiously.

Sometimes, my internal calendar gets a little off, and I get confused about what day of the week it is. (Happens to the best of us.) This Tuesday I was perusing the NYT website and thought, "Oh, Maureen Dowd must be off this week." The next day I was expecting a column from Gail Collins and saw... Maureen Dowd? BECAUSE IT'S WEDNESDAY, STUPID. *facepalm*

Yes, I can tell what day it is by the NYT Opinion columnists.
There's an episode of Gilmore Girls where Lorelai goes away for the weekend, and Rory plans a night in doing to do her laundry and watch TV. That is my night, minus the all the take out food and Paris, Jess, and Dean barging in. [livejournal.com profile] d4ni ran off to Columbus for five days, so it's just me, the cats, and, of course, the laundry.

I had no idea that Burn Gorman played Mr. Guppy in Bleak House! I did a little double take when he came on screen. (You know, Guppy acts a lot like Owen does in "Adam", following Esther around like a lost puppy. But unlike Owen, Guppy has awful hair.) Gillian Anderson is Lady Dedlock, but I already knew that. It must've been crazy trying to adapt a story with so many characters and subplots for TV, but so far it's very good.

Today I actually passed another person on the sidewalk on my way to the library! And by "passed" I mean that she was texting and almost ran right into me. But hey, somebody else walking somewhere! :D

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