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So today I had yet another used bicycle slip through my fingers. A never-ridden, $600 bicycle, that was offered to me for $100. Because, after taking the bus all the way across town, waiting for the owner to show up at his storage unit, and convincing him to sell the bike to me (rather than [...]
I’ve been slowly coming to a realization over the last few days, brought about by lots of time to sit around and think and read blogs and some books and think some more. What I’m realizing is how exhausted I am by how politicized everything in Dharamsala is. Everything either relates or is [...]
I’m writing a life history paper for our Tibetan culture class, and I can safely say that it’s one of the hardest papers I’ve ever had to write. For one thing, it’s totally different than the “find a point and make it” papers that I/we’ve been writing, well, since we could write papers at [...]
Today is the opening of sho-ton (curd festival), the Tibetan opera festival. In Tibet, it was held in the middle of the summer, when yogurt was made and crops were growing, but now in exile it’s held at the end of the monlam, the month-long prayer festival started by Tsongkapa, the reformer and founder of [...]
I’m worried about consciousness. Really worried. I’m not worried about consciousness being too “hard” a problem for science to handle. If it makes a difference, I think that there is no such hard problem, just like there’s no “hard” problem about what makes living things live, no elan vital, once you understand [...]
email U. Virginia people RE: Tibet
trim plants
call tech support about my computer’s insomnia
make a dentist appointment
meet with Safa about writing up our data from last semester (!)
I will do them soon, though! Things I did do today included having my JA interview, which was all different kinds of fun/exciting/anxiety-inducing, not to mention my group’s [...]
I just came across an article in the Times about Apple’s DRM—Digital Rights Management—the lovely, wonderful technology that only allows you to play songs bought from iTunes on a limited number of computers and on only ONE line of mp3 players: the iPod clan. This is in stark contrast to what you can do [...]
From a story in today’s New York Times:
Michael Palmer, the general manager of television stations WVII and WFVX, ABC and Fox affiliates in Bangor, has told his joint staff of nine men and women that when “Bar Harbor is underwater, then we can do global warming stories.”
“Until then,” he added. “No more.”
[...]
Mr. Palmer said he [...]
I really have no idea how I am going to get prepared for my music test tomorrow…I still haven’t listened to half the pieces we’re supposed to be able to identify.
*sigh
I’m ready for this week to be over. At least it looks like it’ll be Mountain Day on friday!
(p.s. I think the test went [...]
This week has been quite angst-filled, and not just for me but for many of my dear friends as well. Unlike Matt et al, my breakdown wasn’t so much one of existential crisis but more just getting completely worn out. By 8 pm on Thrusday it felt like I was running on empty, [...]
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