2053---and I have officially struck out in the housing lottery

damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn

I saw Fool's Gold a week ago--it was moderately cute, and better than the 10% that rottentomatoes gave it, though i still wouldnt call it "good". bottom line, i feel like most of the people seeing that movie were seeing it so they could see Matthew McConaughey walking around shirtless for a good chunk of the movie ( Read more... )

i have a mental list of things to do before i die. not sure how many things are on it, but i know of a few things that have been crossed off--like submitting a puzzle to the new york times, and eating ice cream in front of a window behind which people are running on treadmill (it was mean, but it was something i just had to do before the spa across ( Read more... )

We have a website!

Kudos to webmaster AM on this one--not quite sure how he got it, but he actually managed to get blowmyfish.com.

a little behind on archiving the older issues, but click on the "crossword" link to see my babies. answers are available

(in continuation of my last post, yes this further illustrates my nerdness--i use my spare time to ( Read more... )

i am a nerd--sure this is nothing new, but i have a new winner for the most blatant example of this--for reference, my old record holder was two years ago, when i complained about a show on the discovery channel not having enough scientific content.

i got a call this afternoon from my brother inviting me to go to the secret science club with him. ( Read more... )

reading the New York Times' multimedia presentation about the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball ( Read more... )

good things that happened this week:

1. proving the adage that if you make a stink about something for long enough eventually people will listen, they finally fixed my heat this week. instead of 45 degrees in my room, it is now around 80. i should probably turn it down a bit....but im still really happy that i just have it.

2. orgo lab tests are ( Read more... )

sort of

For those of you dont know (and virtually everyone I've told this to doesn't know, which I guess says something about my own level of loserdom), Will Shortz is the crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times and is basically the god of the crosswording world.

Most of the puzzles I write (or help write) for the paper here are both 21x21 ( ( Read more... )

and to think that i always dread tuesdays ( Read more... )

came home tonight to spend 8 hours in a car tomorrow and go to the playoffs at yankee stadium. do i have the time to do it? probably not. a couple of midterms this week--one that i am freaking out about and another in a class for which i have so far done 0 of the approximately 1000 pages (no joke or exaggeration there) of reading ( Read more... )