Let it be known that I should be studying for my Probability and Statistics midterm RIGHT NOW. The exam starts in two hours and I haven't even looked at the second chapter it's testing, except to see something scary about binomials and snap the book closed ( Read more... )

Last night my friend Maryn and I went to the Bill Murray's new movie, Broken Flowers. It was playing at Wescott Cinema, which is an old-fashioned, one-theater venue that plays independent or artistic films. Flowers took awhile to get going, but once it did I really got drawn in. It's about this man who is devoutly single until he gets an anonymous ( Read more... )

Last week I took off Thursday and Friday from work to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio with my mother, cousin and aunt. Cleveland was not, as an Ohioian friend suggested, "the Miami of the Great Lakes", but I did have a good time with them ( Read more... )

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Putin is one sneaky little bastard ( Read more... )

It's been raining all day, which is a pretty accurant mood-to-weather gauge. I've been home for exactly four days and I'm already crawling out of my skin. One more month and I'll be back at SU but I can't help wondering -- has there ever been a longer summer, ever ( Read more... )

So I'm supposed to be writing a policy memo for Friday's class, but I've been sitting in the lab for two hours and am two-thirds done. I'm labeling this a well-deserved break. It should come as no surprise that for my memo, which was to be about a change in U.S. foreign policy of our choice, I am advocating that the U.S. support a broadening and ( Read more... )

A week into my program in DC and I discover that my dorm has a computer lab in the basement. That means for the next six days, I am no longer a slave to the pathetic summer hours library schedule, and can check my e-mail more often than once a week ( Read more... )

So I have NOTHING to do at work today and was reading through entries from last summer when I had nothing to do at my intenship to pass the time, and I found this jem ( Read more... )

Mom and Dad are in the 1,000 Islands for the weekend, so I have the house to myself for a few days. That would be considerably more pleasant if the whole thing didn't currently smell like shit ( Read more... )