Tagged by Emma, and perfectly happy to screw around on livejournal when I ought to be working. I won't tag anyone else to do this; I don't think I have ten people who read my journal as it is. And I don't want to be a bother. Also, since I plan on spending about 90 seconds on this, I make no guarantee that my answers will be totally accurate, at ( Read more... )

Thanks to Emma, for giving me something with which to distract myself from the fact that it's Monday morning ( Read more... )

when your soon-to-be employer invites you to an office party, on your first day of work, when you haven't even really met anyone at "the office" yet, it's hard not to take that as a good sign ( Read more... )

Well, after a five-month hiatus from the ranks of the gainfully employed, I'm pleased to announce that the intern-phase of my life will soon be giving way to an actual job. Beginning May 15, I'll be working as a "government affairs researcher/writer" for a company called Thompson's Publishing Group, which is located on K Street in DC (the same ( Read more... )

well, with half an hour to kill before the Big Important Press Conference i'm going to be a fly on the wall at, and with no real work to do, i figured i'd try emma's wikipedia birthday thing. So, for November 5 ( Read more... )

Thursday, March 23 ( Read more... )

went to borders, didn't get the foo fighters record. far too expensive, even for a double album. instead, got two records, from their "2 for $22" bin, which had a bewildering array of good and bad stuff (hendrix next to celine dion next to nirvana next to sublime...). got Highway to Hell, by AC/DC, and Ten by Pearl Jam.

*sweet*

Last night, on a whim, I listened to my one and only Foo Fighters record, The Color and the Shape. I believe it's their second album, which must make it pretty old. I hadn't listened to it in at least three years, and now I'm wondering what the hell my problem is, because it's really a fantastic record. In addition to classics like Everlong and My ( Read more... )

the op-ed i'm currently writing at work is definitely in crash-and-burn mode right now, so i decided to take a time-out to read some news. which in turn has led me to waste my time on LJ, where at least there are effectively no consequences for my abysmal writing (none for me, that is ( Read more... )

Your senior year in High School is supposed to be "the best year of your life." Let's see how much you remember ( Read more... )