January 2009
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Wine and Mille Bournes with family for New Years
December 2008
48 posts
Best part of having the “tsibley” gmail address that I never use is the random “wrong address” emails I get like photos and airfare reservations.
Just spent 30m in the backyard and stream picking up scraps of wrapping paper that blew in from the neighbor’s garbage. This is not the first time.
Damn. I might be about to win an ebay auction that I no longer want to win.
Unusually warm and blustery today like the prelude to a spring storm, only in December. Gorgeous despite the overcast skies.
A very late night Wikipedia wander last night now has me listening to the top 100 hits from 1972
All tuckered out and very full.
Mmmm, cookies.
Wait, when did it become Christmas Eve?
Enjoying Super Mash Bros. - “Fuck Bitches. Get Euros.” http://lazerwolf.com
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On Credit Cards
American Express feels classier to me—and I’m sure they’re thrilled they’ve cultivated that sentiment—but they charge me a 2.7% fee for transactions in a foreign currency and my Capital One Visa does not. I know which card I’ll be using exclusively for the next six months.
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Just spent a lot of money at EMS, and I plan on spending more in the next few days. Eek.
In PA for three weeks.
Tomorrow’s my last full day in Amherst for the next 8 months… : /
Fuck yes, I’m finished.
About to take my structural geology exam (and last final of the semester!)
Ugh. Well at least that’s over.
By the fire in Keefe studying for my mineralogy exam in two hours.
Hooked on The Prisoner, a 1960s British “spy” drama
Studying mineralogy and structural geology.
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And the days start blurring together…
Dinner at Fresh Side (unusual for me, but I crave a specific dish) and then more paper writing. Procrastinating far too much.
Right. Let’s finish this paper.
Looking forward to the largest full moon in 15 years: http://ping.fm/4prQS
Hunkering down in the library to start and finish this paper.
One class down, three to go!
Half way done with two of my classes. Woo!
Taking my mineralogy lab practical: identify all minerals in 2 thin sections
Plodding along towards the end.
Finally some snow!
Shit. Misread a syllabus at the beginning of the semester and only realized now that I have one more paper, due very soon, than I plann …
Playing laser tag tonight for a friend’s birthday party. I haven’t done this since I was in middle school. Awesome.
Applied for a student visa for the University of Canterbury. Got a visa for the University of Auckland. NZ Immigration FAIL.
Watching Before Sunrise (2004). Not very good so far.
The newest Guitar Hero is such a procrastination problem in my suite.
The only school work I’ve been doing for the past two days is geology.
Last full week of classes begins NOW.