currently on russian sleeping pattern. the past three or four days i have been sleeping from midnight until 7am moscow time, while living in mineapolis. now i can't even day or date. why did i do this? why not?
some people complained that my comic strips are getting dull. yes, i noticed that also. sorry about that, i'm still new at this.
i will be on a three-hour flight from minneapolis to los angeles tomorrow evening, and last time i was on one, it was completely boring that all i did was sleeping. three hours is a long time, so i downloaded a lot of manga for me to read during the flight. it is somewhat unfortunate that i figured out this idea far enough in advance that by the time i get to the plane tomorrow, all the manga i've downloaded will have been read.
i finished all 23 volumes of houshin engi, and that turned out to be very good. i still can't get over how ridiculous taikobou's strategies are, like this one that will definitely go to the list of manga scenes that have made me laugh for over five minutes:
yakitate! japan was good too. i finished the first 15 volumes, and the story is definitely getting bizarrely out of control. i wished i knew more japanese, because then i would get all/most of the puns used by takashi hasiguchi. in a way, hashiguchi is somewhat like oda. oda uses the cover pages as a one-panel medium to tell side-stories that are related to, or are extensions of the main plot line, while hashiguchi uses the infamous food judges' reactions to tell various nonsensical stories. if oda excels in story telling and kubo excels is using poetic lines, hashiguchi is definitely one to be reckoned with in using puns. this one panel is just one of the very many that are just simply wrong in many more ways than three.
food around here isn't too bad. i finally came across a vietnamese restaurant named BONA not far from here. having lived in san diego for three years and having had vietnamese girls as the majority of my friends, it is normal for me to have sudden cravings for pho. so one time i went to bona to get one.
the first sentence uttered by the man behind the counter was "we're out of pho," before i could even say anything. almost as if he could read my mind. so i ordered com tam and banh xeo instead. it is interesting to see that, during the half-hour period it took me to finishe my rice, four groups of people came in, got greeted with the same sentence about the pho, nodded, and left. so they came all the way down there just to eat pho. that means bona must have made some real good pho. i should definitely make another attempt to feed myself some pho before i have to leave tomorrow.
professor dan hennessy tried to talk me into going here for graduate school on monday. i went to see him to give a brief report about my inconclusive research, and ended up having a chitchat with him. he encouraged me to try for harvard and stanford, but would like to have me go to UMN for my graduate studies. apparently he found my inconclusive research to be somewhat impressive, which i couldn't fathom why. it is inconclusive, after all. i did manage to isolate a problem, but if you think about how isolating a problem (just isolating, not solving) took a good ten weeks, that's nowhere near impressive. he told me to email him anytime i need a letter of reference, which is a good thing, but i couldn't help feeling weird because he's not even my project advisor. i had worked with him only for the two weeks during which my advisor was gone playing bridge. professor peter litchfield, my project advisor, also told me to talk to him whenever i need a letter of reference. i guess i'll stop by their offices again tomorrow to say thank you for being patient with this one idiot.
i guess the next on the to-do list is GRE. then on to grad school applications. but i guess i'll not worry about that until i have no other choice than to worry about that. right now i have more important things to worry about:
~ getting drunk with sam
~ playing air hockey
~ setting up foosball table in the SPS room
~ taking sister shopping at fashion valley
~ eating lobster with tin in sandiego
~ dinner with evelyn in palo verdes
~ week-long vacation with family
~ seattle road trip with mr. and mrs. keeler.
summer vacation starts tomorrow night, in california. oh yeah, baby.
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