Not a fantastic day; German wasn't swell, ate bad sushi :(, didn't play my deck very well. At least I found some incidences of repressed saints. Hurrah for the thesis... everything else isn't so great, but it's still going. For that, I am grateful.

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Why Eli's awesome:
hmmm, don't be so worried about what grad school you're going to, it's an important decision, but you're not going to screw up the rest of your life if you work hard and do what you enjoy, remember:
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
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Also from Eli:
I found this on in a Stanford sports article about how sports commentators
from Duke University think too highly of themselves. The kicker comes at
the end. The Blue Devils are their basketball team, FYI:

Duke basketball has become a Final Four fixture in the past decade and a
half, mostly by dominating the Atlantic Coast Conference and producing
superteams under the watch of Mike Polish K Krzyzewski. The Blue Devils
always seem to have a glut of great college players who never translate
into NBA superstars (see Shane Battier and Christian Laettner). TV
commentators love to go on and on about Duke's academic prowess in
addition to their athletic skill, as if being called the Harvard of the
South wasn't an insult. That's like being the hottest girl at Cal Tech...
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Yeeeeeee-ouch! That's a zinger.