A fun beach trip today (sorry, no camera, so no pics) out to Assateague Island on the Atlantic side of the Chesapeake Bay. You may find the name familiar to your ear, which is likely because said island is the habitat of some wild ponies that roam freely about the island. Altogether, they aren't that enchanting to me, since their main occupation ( Read more... )

Earlier, I was mad, both in general and at myself. I thought I had cleared a major hurdle that... I didn't really want to clear. Recent experience has shown that I was burying things better than I thought, but also that I must be on a track toward clearing the hurdle anyway. I am not pleased, though it will be nice, I suppose, when my guts can stop ( Read more... )

Another free night. Going out to the quad with another bottle of wine and God Emperor of Dune.

After several days of not having the free time to do it, I made space in my "schedule" (which is becoming more and more like a schedule and less like a "schedule" by the day, to my horror) to do what I've been wanting to do for weeks. I sat on front campus between the hours of 8 and 10.

To go into further detail, I got off work and drove home at my ( Read more... )

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Favorite line: "Hurl! contestants risk gastrointestinal distress and public filthiness for the chance at a measly $1,000, but they're still better paid than viewers/browsers, who endure physical ( Read more... )

I'm not gonna lie folks, it's rough times when two of the most important people in your life cut you out in a space of about four months. It has a tendency to justify certain self-loathing tendencies. It's one thing to dislike oneself and fear that others will dislike you. It's another thing entirely to get to know someone and have them decide, ( Read more... )

I ended up corrupting some file in iTunes the other day and now I've lost all my playlists. Worse still, the play count, last played, and all things tied to those tracked categories have been lost as well. It wouldn't be as big a deal if I didn't (or I guess hadn't) attach(ed) a great a deal of sentimental value to memories stirred by such ( Read more... )

Fact: Presenting amusing bon mots with the preface "Fact:" is one of my favorite rhetorical devices ever.

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love networking as a means of doing cool stuff
So, the offer had been tentatively extended to me already, but I resisted at first. Now however, I think I will go for it. An old guy who lives nearby is planning to travel by car throughout the western parts of the US, including Texas, New Mexico, California, ( Read more... )

[contains spoilers, of sorts, sprinkled throughout, in my opinion, these will not diminish the enjoyment of the book for any who have not yet read it, but consider yourself warned regardless ( Read more... )