Friend Alert

Someone I know has started blogging (again).

This week I have been reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, failing to study Japanese, and conducting a cost-benefit analysis on the hit my self-image will take if I start wearing polo shirts vs. the inconvenience of acquiring and employing a small army of short-sleeve button-up shirts (which I also find aesthetically lacking). I have to start looking professional, you see.

Interesting thing: Butterfly (experiments in music visualization by Glenn Marshall).

Quick Notes

At The Opera House in Bar Harbor, Maine. 1. Southern hospitality is a myth or, at least, an exaggeration; people here are as friendly or friendlier than those back home, and there's the added comfort that we share the same political convictions. 2. There are more bookstores here than in North Carolina. 3. There are more cafes here as well. Conclusion: I could definitely live here, even though I hate the cold: temperament trumps temperature. If you are planning a trip up here, I recommend Portland. It's the (Chapel-Hill-of-yesteryear)-of-the-north.

Also: if anyone knows of any books/ papers/ resources that would be of aid in writing music visualization software, please inform.

N-E-W-S

For anyone still around, and those yet to come, know that despite appearances this blog is not a cold dead place. On it, I will be chronicling my life in, Japan, set to begin in about a month. In the meantime, I've been cash-registering hungry housewives at yon bakery, and reading things like Ring (instead of studying Japanese diligently, as I should). Indulgences aside, I expect to learn more during the next two years than I have in the past five years at U-which-shall-not-be-named.

UNCG

I'm finished.

Most Educational You Tube Videos Ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXdDO5JU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhDkZjKBEw&feature=related

Tomorrow

I just taught myself how to tie a half-windsor. I also found a nice looking pair of shoes in my room that I didn't know I owned. Tomorrow, I'll be flying out in the wee hours of the morning (my flight leaves at 7:50) to interview for a position with the JET Program in Washington DC. I won't hear back until April, but I'll feel compelled to endlessly ponder how things went until then. Possibly I will post an account of the interview this weekend. Possibly not.

Update/ Link

So I'm not getting a Fulbright. But I do have an interview later this month with the JET Programme in D.C. Wish me luck.

And then there's this (found on Digg): Christian Bale takes David to the Dentist