my three weeks in WA were less vacation-y than I'd have liked, but it was good to spend time with the fam, see friends, etc. I'm making the usual feeble efforts at summertime productivity, efforts which have thus far been thwarted by the sudden hot-ness and draw of the pool not to mention the absurd (delightfully absurd) amounts of time I've been ( Read more... )

courtesy of Pauly... Store Wars!!

(it's right up there with The Meatrix...those free range/organic folks are gettin all clever...)

excerpt from a student's response paper:

Rawls' difference principle is a really great idea! However, though I think it is an awesome idea in theory, it seems like it would be totally hard to put into practiceI've heard Rawls' difference principle called a lot of things, but a "really great/awesome idea" and "totally hard to put into practice" ( Read more... )

so close to being finished. I'm debating whether to unplug my computer... on the one hand, doing so cuts of my portal to the outside world! on the other hand, fewer distractions ( Read more... )

everyone give spankings!

( photos of my new apartment )

shopping with Irene was fun but exhausting -- I never knew that there was so much involved in the seemingly simple task of choosing a wedding ring. she finally decided that she's probably going to go for a simple platinum wedding band since she can't commit to anything more complicated. I joked that at least her commitment issues seem only to ( Read more... )

so, yet another one of my friends announced last week that she's engaged -- eek! I wonder at what point this is going to stop freaking me out... I'm guessing after some minimum threshold such things will just be old hat and I'll respond to them with a resigned sigh and a shrug of the shoulders. but then after some maximum threshold, wherein I ( Read more... )

Umarmungen & Küssen & transzendentale Dialektik.

I've been so crazy busy the past few weeks ( Read more... )