Posted by: ktchergu on: October 29, 2008
Alright, so the past two days I have definitely had two WTF moments. The first one occured when I was eating lunch in my favorite spot by the statue of Arch Angel Michael on the side of St. John’s. All of a sudden as I’m sitting there, a white peacock is walking around in the [...]
Posted by: ktchergu on: October 24, 2008
So Barnard decided to host this awesome street festival on Claremont right by the Columbia campus. It was in honor of the newly appointed president of Barnard and they had all sorts of fun activities. There were dancers and music and of course tons of free food. There was a booth for every region of [...]
Posted by: ktchergu on: October 24, 2008
The other day, I had my first experience with a member of the Russian diplomatic corp. To put it simply, it was horrific. Vitali Churkin, the permanent representative to the UN who is considered to be the second most important person in Russia on foreign policy behind Sergei Lavrov spoke for about and hour and [...]
Posted by: ktchergu on: October 24, 2008
Okay, so I recently discovered the new South Park website which has all of the episodes on line for free and which also lets you make an avatar of yourself. My productivity has decreased dramatically because of this but its okay, I’ll manage. Let me know if I did a good job with my character? [...]
Posted by: ktchergu on: October 24, 2008
Okay, so this cake that you see pictured below has to be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. One of Anne’s friends got married and this is what they had for their cake. I hope that they release a sequel for Portal soon so that I can see my sweet companion [...]
Posted by: ktchergu on: October 19, 2008
Considering that I really don’t get the chance to get out very often it was really cool to go celebrate Ross’ birthday. We went down to a sushi place in East Village called New Asahai. Very good sushi for the price. The place was a little loud so it was a little hard to have [...]
Posted by: ktchergu on: October 1, 2008
Today, I decide to try something a little different and check out a lecture on a topic that I know relatively little about. I went to a talk by the new (obviously) Foreign Minister of Kosovo who came to speak at Columbia. I must say that I rather enjoyed the talk. He spoke about the [...]
