Yearly Archives: 2007

Foreign language

December 24, 2007 – 12:16 am

I’ve always enjoyed learning things, and languages has been one of them. French has been my pet for the past six years (I actually only “finished” French last year when I finally wrote my SL French papers for IB). I am sad that I no longer take French (for if I did, I would not [...]

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The Holy Days

December 22, 2007 – 11:28 am

Yesterday was the last day of school for me in 2007. To be honest, my real last day happened on Monday, since all the other days I had no classes and an exam. I finally handed in my Songlines (by Bruce Chatwin) commentaries and my lab report yesterday and feel quite in need of a [...]

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This Little Piggy…

December 21, 2007 – 1:43 pm

Today I got a gift at school, wrapped in a Chinese take-out box. It was cute, and the card was cuter. It’s a pig, made of squishy something-or-other and should serve as a nice rest for my wrist as I click away furiously. I rather like that picture of me I don’t have too much [...]

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GTD

December 20, 2007 – 9:56 am

That stands for “get(ting) things done” and I’m generally a fan of that. I’m also a fan, however, of GTD in the most lazy efficient way possible. This explains why I almost never use my carbon-based agenda unless I have to. Below are a couple of speed-hacked things I do to keep track of who, [...]

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info @ the P.Pole 12.19.07

December 19, 2007 – 1:23 pm

5 things that happened to me this week, thus far: I almost got owned yesterday, blagues aside (ask in person/Gtalk for details) I wrote a Calculus exam this morning I learned to play the Intro/Verse to More Than Words (by Extreme) on guitar after Kris owned me I gifted something from the “intimates and lingerie” [...]

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