1. Grenville Kleiser's Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases [Gutenberg etext].
"The abuse of phrases and the misuse of words rife among us can be checked by diligent exercises in good English, such as this book provides. These exercises... will serve to correct careless diction and slovenly speech... for, after all, accuracy in the use of words is more a matter of habit than of theory..."
2. Howjsay.com, an English pronouncing dictionary. Quite the useful companion to #1.
3. DotA Allstars 6.51 AI+ 1.52. This game saw me through the previous month of having been disconnected from the Internet. I don't think I'll ever spend enough time playing DotA again to become a decent player against other people, but the AI bots provide just enough resistance for the game to still be fun.
4. ...and that's it for specific obsessions. Senior year, as one could imagine, almost forces one to revisit the old issues (never satisfactorily resolved, but which had been shunted aside by more immediate concerns): self-worth, identity, value system creation (discovery?), social awareness, career choice, work, money, independence, the future, and so on.
And the dreaded thesis, of course. *deep breath*
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