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Thursday, November 20, 2003
Italy! Different! Fun facts: -When Americans say we are going to meet at a bar, we mean inside.* -When Italians say they are going to meet at a bar, they mean outside.** -Clarifying this ahead of time prevents silly misunderstandings like waiting for the better part of an hour to meet somebody who is literally ten feet away, give or take a wall. * Reason being, whoever arrives first can get out of the cold and can order something while waiting for companion(s). ** "It might be difficult to find each other in there! What if it's big and crowded?" Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Big Fish! Big Fish! Grad school is hard. I get frustrated. International Monetary Theory hurts to think about. And my Italian is bad. Tuesday, November 11, 2003
American Bandwidth I'm happy to report that my roommate Gisela, who is a big computing know-it-all, has turned me on to Suprnova, a file-sharing system (legality? what?) that puts the Kazaa family to shame, which means I've been able to keep up on all my favorite American shows. Well, at least The Simpsons is here. All the other shows I like have weird HBO-y schedules (or have been cancelled recently--bitches!), so the "new fall schedule" ain't really happening for me. And I tried to check out other stuff. I downloaded Will & Grace because it used to be good (it was! it was!), and what did I get? James Earl Jones mincing around under orders from "Just Jack" McFarland. I downloaded something called Tru Calling because I heard it was hilariously bad...but it turns out it was just bad. Really, really bad. So on the one hand, I'm happy to have access to un-dubbed American TV...but on the other hand, so much of it just sucks. Monday, November 10, 2003
Mmmmm...Snack Every once in a while, something comes along that makes you question whether there is an upper limit for the concentration of funny. This is most definitely one of those things. |
