i am doing some work at home and while flipping through the stations, i found a tv show i cannot actually believe is even being produced. it's called "are you smarter than a 5th grader?" and i am sad to say that the gentleman i am currently watching, alas, is not ( Read more... )

so j & i started italian last night--what fun! our teacher is this lovely woman in her late 60s/early 70s who is charming, funny, a tad absent-minded, proud of her heritage, and yes, you guessed it, italian. we kind of made an entrance, walking in late by about 10 minutes, but for us, that's not bad. (yes, we had intended to go early, but i was a ( Read more... )

i'm sure you've all moticed it way before i did, being as how you all get up when you're s'posed to, but did you see what the Word of the Day is today?

i hear happy little information professionals all over the world doing a little happy dance right now...

This is among the scariest things i have read in a long time. i was sure this had to be satire, albeit not very good as satire, as the arguments are bloated in some places and riddled with holes in others... however, going up a level & checking more into the source, this is from a textbook for ministers from some scary religious zealot group. cats ( Read more... )

random, random musings ( Read more... )

i am in california now, about to go meet the lovely cariberry3 for dinner. this is some small consolation for the fact that tonight, the one time in my lifetime that al gore is speaking in boise (right now! right now! right now!), i cannot be there. i am, instead, on the annual week-long departmental meeting for my group in HP. i am excited to see my dear ( Read more... )

...tonight i had a truly crippling thought. what if there isn't anything to look forward to anymore?

seriously...

my soul is bereft with worry...

have you seen this? things my girlfriend and i have argued about.com? i have no idea if it's going around or what, but it's delightful. be warned that if you get hooked, you will not likely get any work done today. or dinner made. or article read. or whatever it is you are s'posed to be doing, b/c you'll be reading this ( Read more... )

...worse today, actually. i am now super-dosing on vitamins C & E but it is very cyclical in terms of getting better than getting worse. i am also sick of liquids (j & have consumed so much tea in the last few days that we could keep a tearoom going on our business alone...) but i have little appetite. except for the AMAZING potato-leek soup we ( Read more... )

note to self: please do not be going to play pool & hang out with friends at the local punk rock (re: smokey-smokey-smokey) bar when one is trying to shake an annoying, lingering cold unless one decides one would enjoy the feeling that someone has poured acid down one's throat the next morning.

too bad i didn't get this one in time... *sigh*