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I’ve been reading a lot lately. A lot more than usual, which is why I’ve started writing again. I started writing this one story about two years ago, and I never started it. But it has reared it’s head, keeping me from even being able to write the comic that I’m trying to do. So I’m going to get it out of the way. Go me!

The saddest song I’ve heard, I think, is Slip Sliding Away, by Simon and Garfunkle. I can’t listen to it anymore, because it makes me cry.

I went out and bought a voice recorder. Target had them on clearance, so I said “Woo! I’ll take it.” It’s actually kinda nice to be able to take notes in the car. I like it - I can ramble on for up to three hours, which is great, because I typically get great ideas while I’m driving but I can’t write them down. This helps keep them around.

Law school decision making time is coming up soon. I have to decide between Villanova (expensive), Pitt (medium), Rutgers (cheap), and American (really expensive). That’s presuming I don’t get in anywhere I was waitlisted. I’m having committment issues, I guess.

Finally, people have been forgetting things lately. Most importantly: Almost everybody, almost all of the time, is almost always wrong.
You know what that means? That no matter how right you think you are, you probably are not right. You are probably diametrically opposed to being right. You are wrong wrong wrong! Learn the difference, and you will achieve satori, my child.

I keep getting the urge to write the comic that I’m working on with Brian, but by the time I get home, I forget what’s in my head about it. I need to get a voice recorder.

The worst part is that I can’t even get past the first couple of pages once I sit down to write it.

Silvio Olivieri, 1984 - 2004

So long, friend…

The Blogging of the President: 2004: “‘CLARKE: I think it exceeded anything that George Tenet or I had ever seen.’ - on the intelligence warnings in the summer of 2001.
In the war, they issued decks of cards with the faces of wanted enemies. It seems, however, that the House of Bush has taken a powerful blow from a man named Clarke, a man who in 2002 gave background information to Fox on anti-terrorism record of Bush’s executive branch - and now has come forth and slammed that record.”

In my quest to pick up some new languages, I’m mainly learning Spanish at the moment, along with relearning Japanese.

But here’s some important things to be able to say in Swedish:

1 (ett)
2 (tv?)
3 (tre)
4 (fyra)
5 (fem)
6 (sex)
7 (sju)
8 (?tta)
9 (nio)
10 (tio)

Hello.
Hall?

Good bye.
Hej d?.

Your are beautiful.
Bu ?r vacker

Thank you for the food.
Tack f?r maten.

I am from…
Jag kommer fr?n…

That is a lovely hat!
Det d?r en vacker hatt!

Where is the little boys room?
Vart ligger den lille gossens rum?

Nice meeting you!
Trevlight att r?kas!

Got those down? Here’s some more advanced phrases:

There is a smurf buried in my butter
Det ligger en smurf begravd i mitt sm?r.

The palms of my feet are constructing portals for you while you sleep.
Mina fotsutor konstruerar portaler ?t dig medan du sover.

I am a tiger. Only kidding! I used to be a tiger but I’m not anymore.
Jag ?r en tiger. Nej, skojar bara! Jag brukade vara en tiger men inte nu l?ngre.

A tractor has recently landed in my backyard. Is it your cousins?
En trakktor har nyligen landat i min bakg?rd. ?rr det din kusins?

That gargoyle is very contemporary.
Den d?r gargolen ?r mycket modern.

You are a sausage.
Du ?r en korv.

I am in the market for some Bolivian alabaster.
Jar ?r p? marknaden f?r att hitta lite Bolivisk alabaster.

There’s a bunch of daffodils on the rampage.
Ett g?ng maskrosor har blivit tokiga och m?rdar folk.

Beat me, Mr. Badger!
Sl? mig, herr Bajskorv!

My contact lens fell into that volcano on the right.
Min kontakt-lins f?ll ner i den d?r vulkanen till h?ger.

The Money Map

Tracking campaign contributions…

Snow’s nice and all, but why must it make a return for my Spring Break?

Its enough I’m a 40-hour weekrather than off partying, but must I commute through slush too?!

(Although the weather will clear up nicely for going back to classes next week…)

Apparently, there’s this site that lets you see places you’ve been, coloring them red while those states/countries one hasn’t visited are beige.

I haven’ been anywhere! I’ve been to only a handful of states and a few other countries. I feel so…uncosmopolitian.

Channel Four International (C4i) asked a number of US and UK film and TV stars what the favorite swear words were — and to say them out loud (and they do). What follows is a 2 minute melange of famous faces saying, amongst other things, bloody, wanker, bollocks and bugger — it is England, after all — and an awful lot of other swear words you’d recognize in the U.S.
Wanker…