News: I am now married. Thank you, thank you. As Shanna and I have been together for quite a while, already live together; for all intents and purposes we've been living as a married couple for some time now - so the differences from then to now are mostly semantic. I still catch myself referring to a "fiance" and not a "wife ( Read more... )

I am now one of the happy unemployed ( Read more... )

To everyone who likes to rain on others' parades; thank you for reminding me 17 times a day that St> Patrick wasn't actually Irish. What brilliant historians you are. Did you get that out of "DaVinci Code" along with the rest of your oh-so-accurate historical knowledge ( Read more... )

Last week Shanna and I went to the Connecticut Forum presentation of "Our Favorite Writers" which was a panel discussion featuring Joyce Carol Oates and Kurt Vonnegut. I can die happy now. Oates is brilliant, dark, witty, and so politely scathing when she wants to be. Vonnegut is utterly amazing. He has the wit and presence of a moder Mark ( Read more... )

I've been playing the album "Honeycomb" by Frank Black lately while I drive, and one of his songs just makes me laugh every time, in a dark sort of way. Read the lyrics below in the light of current political spin-doctoring; and then think that this song was meant the same way, but written by Elvis Presley ( Read more... )

I have decided that this will be the last year I try and split Christmas between multiple families. First her's, then mine. Sometimes it is the other way around. I have come to feel sympathy for children of divorced parents, and all the more thankful that I have never known that distance. Next year, we plan to have Christmas at our house, ( Read more... )

I let myself do this. I find something that I know litle about, and I research it to death. It is a good way to always continue learning, which I believe is important for a person; but often I discover things that frighten me. For example ( Read more... )

As apparently determined as people are to accept new technology, we seem rather scared of new language. After work, I plan to go to Blockbuster and pick up something to watch this weekend. The most common term for this, according to my own informal study of asking everyone in the office, is "getting a video." Video? I haven't even owned a VHS ( Read more... )

List ten songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Livejournal along with your ten songs ( Read more... )

it has been long, I shall try and be brief ( Read more... )