• Archive for November, 2008

    Dear Sidewalk Spam

    by  • November 27, 2008. 10:28 am • General, Nikky • 8 Comments

    Stop bug­ging me for dona­tions. Peo­ple walk­ing along the ave in the mid­dle of the day are stu­dents who don’t have time to lis­ten to you blab­ber on about some­thing we don’t care about. And besides, you’re try­ing to hit stu­dents up for money. Just sayin’

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    Not-So-Epic Registration

    by  • November 13, 2008. 9:24 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    It wasn’t that epic, but I did get the last spot in a 17 mem­ber class. Archi­tec­ture 151: Appre­ci­a­tion of Archi­tec­ture II. (3) Astron­omy 190: Spe­cial Top­ics: “Explor­ing the Moon.” (5) Ital­ian 102: Ele­men­tary Ital­ian. (5) LSJ 379: Pris­ons Anthro­po­log­i­cal Per­spec­tive. (5)

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    The Day After the Earth Stood Still

    by  • November 5, 2008. 5:52 pm • General, Nikky, Politics • 0 Comments

    Tues­day saw Obama shirts, but­tons, hats, sweat­shirts, signs, and mag­nets take over. Nary a Repub­li­can sup­porter was to be found. I sus­pect they were in hid­ing as usual around this school. But the mood was very pen­sive. I think we real­ized that the elec­tion would be over soon, yet we were (or I was, at least), run­ning over possible […]

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    Why I Don’t Have A Religion (or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace atheism)

    by  • November 1, 2008. 12:59 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    Recently I went through a minor revamp of my face­book pro­file, and in the midst of that minor endeavor, I came across a minor issue: that lit­tle innon­cent box that says “reli­gion.” Cur­rently my answer was “Swedish,” and before that: “agnos­tic.” But the real issue was that I am an athe­ist, and I wasn’t sure how peo­ple I know would respond to […]

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