EDIT: Got one, I'll take one more!

This is the neatest pay-it-forward holiday idea and I wanted to participate. I bet many of y'all would have fun with this.

May I choose a book for someone?

I shall be the not-so-secret Santa for (at least) the first person to respond to this post who is not already on my personal gift list.

You:

* Haven't yet met me in ( Read more... )

Dear Harvard and Cambridge ( Read more... )

Mrs. Ravioli comes to visit her son Anthony for dinner... who lives with a female roommate Maria...

During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty Anthony's roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while ( Read more... )

So, I'm doing NaNoWriMo again.  Last year I had a filter for people who wanted to keep up with my story, so I'm opening that up again.  Lemme know and I'll put you on the filter that gets updates when I write more.  Maybe I'll actually hit the 50k this year (or at least be smart enough to save the 20k I get somewhere other than my harddrive...  I ( Read more... )

One week of school down, umpteen to go...  I'm really excited about my classes this semester.  They all look amazing and the professors are all really accessible, friendly people that I'll actually get to know!  It's a nice change from my 80 person New Testament class.  I've got two lectures and two seminars, except the lectures are both small ( Read more... )

the dumpster behind my apartment building was just on fire.

the apartment now smells like burned trash.

the fan is dead.

ugh.

edit: some stupid fucktards are setting off fireworks on my roof.   *whimper*

Titles that I spent the summer with so far (all fiction except Butch is a Noun)

June

Butch is a Noun - S. Bear Bergman
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders - Neil Gaiman
Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
Boston Boy's Club - Jonathan Diaz
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
A Scarecrow's Bible - Martin Hyatt
Zodiac - Neal Stephenson

July  (a little lighter than ( Read more... )

I BOUGHT A SHINY!

*ahem*

I once again have my own computer.  I purchased a new desktop this afternoon.  It pleases me a great deal to have my own access to the internet once more.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled lives.

if you're free tomorrow (sunday), even for just 30 minutes, around 11:30 or 4:30 and would be willing to help me carry some dressers and maybe some boxes, I need help loading and unloading my moving van.  11:30 in Cambridge, 4:30ish in Allston.  Meals are on me ( Read more... )

I used to own two computers.

I now own two computer corpses.

Christ on a bike.