Happy MLK Day

WHEW.

So.

I have finished my first semester of grad school. Finally. You have no idea how relieving it is knowing that you've completed a stage in a new life. Hopefully this means that my life can get back to a "normal" of school and dating (without relationships--or, I should say, I'm not holding my breath for relationships anymore).

Now the feeling is relief. It's good to be free for a month! Hopefully I can start posting stuff again for all you internet people (both of you) to read.

Have a video:




Peace out yall
Nick

Yet another frivolous, but highly addicting, website.

So I have my own virtual country: I am the chief despot of "The Brewtown Empire," a country of about 4000 inhabitants centered on Milwaukee that includes most of Wisconsin, Lower Michigan, and northern Illinois and Indiana.

This all started from a virtual game website that my friend sent me, and from there, I found Cybernations.net. It's something that I've invested only a couple minutes a day at, but I find I can't stop. Check it out!

The Delicious

I have no idea what this is, but enjoy.

Part I:




Part II:

Whoa... dude.

So I was at work, stumbling through teh intertubez (thanks, stumbleupon) and came across this conservative blog.

Please don't get me wrong. My parents, and I love them, are conservatives who probably would never ever vote for a Democrat ever. I have friends who are conservatives (seriously! Check my facebook friends!), but this blog just seems completely out of left field. Basically, they're saying that President Obama's plan for community service will serve to make a new Hitler Youth.

Why are they so afraid? Why is it that conservatives think we all want to make them into us?

More importantly, how can we get people like this to talk and listen to us? Have we really gotten that bad in America that we think that anyone who disagrees with us wants to nuke the country?

My brain is full

So last week I led discussion in my GEOG 870 (Contemporary Geographic Approaches), and then I wrote a rough draft for a research proposal for 810 (Methods in Geography). My outline and literature review for my 810 was pretty much savaged, so I made sure every step was done very very carefully, and I'm mostly happy with the result.

The upshot is that I spent all last week w0rking very hard, putting my 870 literature review (a rough draft, but still) on the back burner. That is due tomorrow, on Thursday. I also have 6 articles (these are scholarly articles, not the kind of think you find in the New Yorker) to read for the same class.

My brain is exhausted, and I've pretty much resigned that, for tomorrow, I'm going to suck, because I'm not at all prepared on any level.

Thank God for Thanksgiving holiday next weekend.

Of course, this is also my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian. No idea how that'll go over.

I can has break plz?

I just listened to this song on my iPod, and it totally made my day:



f we can call them friends then we can call them on their telephones
and they won't pretend that they're too busy or that they're not alone
and if we can call them friends then we can call
holler at them down these hallowed halls
just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor
at all

don't, don't you worry, about the atmosphere
or any sudden pressure change
cause i know
that it's starting to get warm in here
and things are starting to get strange

and did you, did you see how all of our friends were there
and they're drinking roses from the can?
and how, how i wish i, i had talked to them,
and i wish they fit into the plan

and we were tired of being mild
we were so tired of being mild
and we were tired...

i know we're going to meet some day
in the crumbled financial institutions of this land
there will be tables and chairs
there'll be pony rides and dancing bears
there'll even be a band
cause listen, after the fall there will be no more countries
no currencies at all, we're gonna live on our wits
we're gonna throw away survival kits,
trade butterfly-knives for adderal
and that's not all
ooh-ooh, there will be snacks there will
there will be snacks, there will be snacks.


and we were tired of being mild,
we were so tired of being mild,
and we were (we were so) tired...

so don't you,
don't you worry
about the atmosphere.