Wow the threads still around awesome

I suppose we're all bananananas?

I love the human body, but it does have it's flaws.

Flaw #1: Eyelashes falling into the eye. Seriously why are eyelashes so weak and why are they so fucking hard to get out when they enter your eye? I just spent over an hour and a half trying to an eyelash our of my eye until the uncomfortableness just went away. I don't know if it fell out or if my eye absorbed it (that would awesome if it did); I'm glad it's not bothering me anymore.

Having thought about it, i've made ordered preference lists for what to do after college (and then i thought, "i should have solidified this list a year ago")

1. Become Foreign Service Officer. Chances of this are low, just because the Foreign Service accepts an incredibly low percentage of applicants, though it's all exam-based, so i feel slightly more confident on a nominally-level playing field, since it's basically "take a social studies test and maybe get a job." The other issue is that the whole exam/selection process, even if you succeed, takes approximately a year, so i would need at least a placeholder job while i seek this job

2. Get a job in America. Much as i've enjoyed time in Japan, i value normalcy and stability a bit more, so I would rather apply the talents i've achieved and get a real, career-relevant job in America. The irony of course is the Foreign Service job is the least stable of the 4 options i've worked out, since they would be shunting me all over the world every two years or so, until i established myself at a niche. But anyway, nice normal job, see where it could take me

3. Teach English in Japan. This wouldn't be a long-term thing, maybe only a couple of years to pay down student loans and improve my Japanese to the point where i could count my Japanese as a skill, and open up more job opportunities

4. Go back to school and get my PhD. I would need to do more research on how much this costs and how much funding i could get (most TA's you find at colleges are grad students, so job opportunities are there, but how much further in the hole would i dig myself?). This option also, of course, means I would still be in school. I can't do this one immediately anyway, simply because i never took the GRE test, and so am unqualified to even apply for grad school yet...

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I miss this thread. Let's keep it alive.

New Rule: Never get fast food to end a night out.

??Fast food is so YUMM late at night!

Right now I'm just sad that Americans haven't heard of the Tragically Hip. They are absolutely amazing.

I have some American friends with great taste in music, and they love other Canadian bands like Rush, The Arcade Fire, etc. but none of them have heard of the Tragically Hip. It boggles my mind how [what I would consider] the 2nd best Canadian band (after Rush) has stayed under the radar in America.