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Tyrphanax

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#602255
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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If you meant currently, Ender, I live in the Mesa/Chandler/Gilbert/Germann/whatever other towns have glommed onto the megopolis that is the Valley of the Sun.

I'm attending the ASU campus out here. It's much better than the main Tempe campus, I feel. Quieter. Smaller class sizes. Newer facilities.

 

When I lived in Tucson, it was 27th street (nearish the Golf Links/Harrison intersection), then moved to Harrison Hills just down the road, then all the way out to Vail (Arizona, which is actually starting to grow up, used to just be us and a few other people), and finally the Civano neighbourhood, which is at the Houghton/Irvington intersection.

All on the East Side and pretty much a only couple miles from the last place each time, except for Vail. But I've been to the UA many, many times for various things.

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What are you reading?
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I'm enjoying it, I never had to read it for class, but I was always interested in what he had to say and all the misunderstandings around his work.

It's taking me forever to get through it because school keeps making me read other things, but it's good. I guess I just have to deal with sacrificing my pleasure reads for school.

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Last movie seen
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Glad to see that I'm not alone in my appreciation of Dalton's Bond. Seems like he gets a bad rap, and I assume that's because of the multitude of silliness before him (though I do love Roger Moore's work as well), and of course Connery's unimpeachable King Bond.

Also, as far as Safety Not Guaranteed is concerned... I can't believe they made a movie about that. I remember seeing that for the first time on YTMND (WARNING: YTMND is a flash site that will play audio automatically and it might be loud so be careful) like a decade ago. Those were the days...

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What are you reading?
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche

By, well, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

This is something I've been reading since last year. Because of school and the reading requirements therein, I find it hard to do any reading for pleasure because all of my will to read is just sapped by the time I put down my textbooks, and I want to do anything but.

That said, this has been a supremely interesting collection of his essays, and I look forward to wanting to read more.

 

For Cause & Comrades

James M. McPherson

This is a school book that I am to write a critique on, but beyond that, as a history buff, it's a fascinating look at what made people fight in the American Civil War through segments of their own letters and diaries from the day. It's a good way to really see into the mindset of the day(as well as the lack of grammar!) and it presents it all in a very focused and captivating manner, without getting bogged down in the inanities of full letters or textbook-speech. Definitely recommended for anyone interested in history.