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I’m having an emotional roller-coaster night.
Mixing up deadlines, falling behind on Chinese characters, accidentally destroying (and almost-destroying) belongings due to a combination of bad luck and terrible balance?
It happens.
Meditation, food, and music will help and it actually is helping.
Food especially, since my two PE classes have made me hungry. All the time. I plan on [...]

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The weather is perfect right now!  It’s so sunny, warm, and delightfully breezy. Low 70s. My ideal kind of weather. :D
I want to frolic outside but I’m afraid I have too much work to do. :[ My Japanese Civ on The Tale of Heike keeps giving me the stink eye.
My life [...]

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1. What’s up with me losing everything today? This is so not on. I’m upset over losing my favorite earring, it took me ten minutes for me to locate my iPod this morning, and another five minutes to find my iPod USB cable. :[
2. Aikawa Nanase and Shiina Ringo are the Queens of Japanese Rock.
3. [...]

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whine and cheese; please ignore.
I am so tired right now. On the bright side, I managed to complete my hellee’s schedule and it’s only about eight freaking pages because I’m a little crazy. I finished my discussion question for Chinese Revolution, copied some notes from a class I missed, am currently thoroughly knackered.
However,  I still [...]

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An inauspicious start to this semester.
First day of shopping week and registration.
Registration started late but hopefully I did it right and I now have the two PE classes I want.  I’m excited about Pilates.
I skinned my knee climbing out of bed today. Le siiiigh.

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Bryn Mawr’s honor code about grades is so vague that I always feel a bit uneasy when discussing them. (When I talk to friends from other schools, I always have to remind myself that it’s normal to talk about them.)
In any case– here’s to being vague!– this was the hardest semester of Chinese yet and [...]

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Truth: writing a paper, in theory, is easy.
You shape, mold, and fit words into sentences and support everything you say with quotes, evidence, and years of experience from perfecting the art of BSing.
When you think about a paper this way, it’s a lot easier to handle.
Now my only problem is that I’m too tired to [...]

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I’m flummoxed by how certain I sounded in my paper proposal and how confused I am right now.
Fail, self. Fail.
Hello self, you have to write a fifteen page paper.
It’s due Thursday with the extension you were granted for being a vessel of the flu.
This means you should start researching and writing the aforementioned paper and [...]

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All the classes I want to take in the spring meet on Mondays/Wednesdays 2:30 to 4 PM.
Kill me now.

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I am so chipper and enthusiastic about anything and everything today.
I managed to get to bed before 1 AM which meant I got six and a half hours of sleep! I’m sort of bowled over by how awake I can be without the aid of caffeine. One of my friends commented that she almost liked [...]

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We were talking about majors in Chinese drills today.
I sometimes do wonder why I’m not majoring in East Asian Studies (dongyashi).

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I was perfectly fine earlier tonight but life threw me a curve-ball and I realized that everything’s happening tomorrow.
Everything  should be fine as long as I stick to a schedule (and I need to plan everything down to the damn minute) but it should be fine.
Two friends from high school visiting Bryn Mawr. One sitting [...]

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So one of the things I’ve been freaking out about is declaring my major at Bryn Mawr or at Haverford since Haverford is slightly better with cultural anthropology. If there’s one thing I’ve learned this semester, it’s that I honestly do not care much about human evolution. I’m now leaning towards majoring at Bryn Mawr [...]

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I predict that the next two weeks will be incredibly hellish for me.
I have three group projects to work on, a 15 page paper for Human Rights, finals to deal with, and reading that should somehow magically get done. Needless to say, I think Starbucks is going to become my new best friend. BUT AFTER [...]

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Written last night at approximately 11:30 PM:

This evening one of Andrea’s classmates invited her to have dinner with her! And invited me along! So we had sushi at Sushi Land om nom nom nom~! It was delicious.
After getting back to campus, Andy and I realized we had no plans for tonight since Andrea’s plans had [...]

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Ever got a paper back so covered with red marks that you’re even too afraid to touch it, even when given the opportunity to rewrite it for a higher grade?
Yeah, that’s me right now.

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1. So, I think my mom is trying to make me spontaneously combust by feeding me yummy Chinese food. Well, food in general.
I mean, I have a pretty good appetite (product of parents’ owning a restaurant). However, I just had a large slice of pizza and a glass of orange juice. I turned around and [...]

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Okay.
So today I got up early, had breakfast with Katie, went into the Comp. Sci lab with a “D: D: THIS SHOULD BE WORKING, WHY AREN’T MY PROGRAMS WORKING?” face– got my programs done (<3 VICTORY IS MIIINE), went to Chinese class, wrote up my report of my comp. sci programs, bought a tuna fish [...]

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GOOD THINGS!
1. I have girl scout cookies! Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, and Thanks-A-Lots. I’m probably going to gain ten pounds in the next two weeks but I don’t care.
2. I’m madly in love with Psych, the show. It’s predictable, safe, adorable, and hilarious. In other words: perfect braincandy for me to watch when I [...]

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What I should do is post about my trip to China.  I made a promise to blog everyday during winter break but ended up in a rural village in Fujian with no internet access- so well, that had fallen through. Or I should at least blog about second semester and my classes. Or the new [...]

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CSEM: Greek Mythology
Course Description: For over two millennia, the myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage
and fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. As we explore one of the richest treasure troves of the ancient world, we will see how
some of these stories have been read and understood, recounted and [...]

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