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Eastcoastgirl redesigned her site. The first word I read as the page loaded was ‘indeed’. What a great word to introduce a web site! A segue - a natural flow from whatever I thought I had to Suzen’s words. When I write papers, ‘indeed’ is one of the segue words I […]

I feel like this:

I have an amazing talent. In the dorm cafeteria, there is an automatic hot cocoa machine. You have probably seen this type of apparatus before. You place your empty mug beneath a spout, then press and hold a button. The machine mixes the hot cocoa contents in appropriate proportion, and delivers fully […]

To briefly comment on what follows: Maybe I’m being pathetic. Maybe I’m acting like an obsessed fan, but this is just too cool not to mention. I’m so flattered. I have influenced the design of an A-List web site.
I consider Lance Arthur (glassdog.com) among the cr�0�5me de la cr�0�5me of web designers. When he redesigned […]

Dave, one of my best friends from Binghamton, created a weblog. He’s very intellectual, but less arrogant than me. Like the webpage itself, most of what he writes about stems from the classes he’s taking at the Stern School at NYU.

Lessons learned from failures with women:

Never kiss on the first date. Err on the side of moving too slowly.
“Trying too hard” is not a death sentence.
Be yourself. It is ok (and inevitable) to seem "weird" in some sense. Trying to act normal is trying to act mediocre. And there is no such thing as a […]

Sometimes, namely right now, I feel as though the University of Chicago is a giant thumb pushing on my head, forcing my brain to do all sorts of stuff. Usually, it�0�9s very stressing, this giant thumb pushing on my head, but its also very good. The process is often painful and discouraging, yet […]

My father gave me today’s quote of the day:“Don’t let the bastards get you down.”
Or, if you want to be more scholarly, it’s:“Non illegitimi carborundum.”

Odd, disturbing, or otherwise remarkable searches that yield results on ktheory.com(via my server logs)amateur porn: I’m the first of only two hits. I don’t know how that happened.international baccalaureate and ib screwed: This is a pretty funny search. More disgruntled IB students.heated sidewalk: What a good idea!my sexy boyfriend prom pictures: Cool.aaron sucksmy […]

This was uncalled for.
Currently reading: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (editor of McSweeney’s)
I shouldn’t be reading this book. I should be doing better in my classes, which my parents are paying obscene amounts of money for me to take. But not to bias you against the book - it’s […]

“You have never loved me. You only thought it amusing to be in love with me.”
–Ibsen, A Doll’s House
To celebrate Valentine’s day, being Valentine-less, I went with some people in my dorm to see a reading of The Vagina Monologues. The group putting on the show asked members of the audience for volunteers to […]

“I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifter, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding.”
–Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

O’Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.‘How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?‘Four.’‘And if the party says that it is not four but five — then how many?’‘Four.’
–George Orwell’s 1984

Amazing events symbolically related to my physics midtermThe DreamThis morning, I took my physics midterm. I had a lot of anxiety about the midterm because physics is my most difficult subject, but I really want to do well to support my self-image as “a math-science person”. A few minutes ago, I woke up […]

Nilay Patel lives upstairs.He shot the video Gerbils.It’s funny.