Trying to get by on 4 hours of sleep and fast food for the last few weeks apparently left me vulnerable to a germ warfare attack. Crappy timing too, I was going to get to spend the day with my niece and nephew at the zoo...Instead, I spent the day trying to do homework but mostly just bonded with my couch while bemoaning my pathetic immune system ( Read more... )

Holy crap I'm tired...and I've still got homework to do...so no time for well structured thoughts ( Read more... )

It must be the seasons changing, but everyone I know seems to be a little depressed lately, and as cycles tend to go, this in turn depresses me. Fortunately, I think the cycle stops with me, or almost at least, the only one I think I affect is our shop cat, Lucy, but I got some prozac from Mexico for her, so she seems to be hanging in there ( Read more... )

A few random thoughts, since I don't have the time or energy to put together a single big coherent one ( Read more... )

Between Grad School (2 tests this week), coaching football (we're 5-0, ranked #6), and that damn paying job, free time, social life and sleep are distant memories. So too is any hope of keeping this blog up unfortunately. However, this kind of struck me, and although everyone already knows about it, I thought it was a big deal. Humanity is a ( Read more... )

You know you're doing something right when you get a documentary made about you. Or, if not right, at least something unique, and Frank Gehry qualifies on both counts. Technically, he's an architect, but that hardly does him justice. Really, he's a sculptor, and he gets to create art on the grandest scale imaginable.

MIT's Stata Center


( Read more... )

I'm fortunate to get to see life from an interesting vantage point. During the day, I make tombstones. Everyone worries immensely about making a good first impression...I'm the one that makes sure they leave a good last impression. In the afternoon, I coach junior high and high school kids, they don't even realize first impressions matter yet, so ( Read more... )

This has been a good week for seeing smiles. I didn't always notice them, the looks of genuine happiness on another person's face when everything was right in their world. But I see them now, and I don't take them for granted anymore ( Read more... )

I've been a HS football coach for 12 years now, and for better or worse, it has sort of defined who I am (or maybe more aptly, where I am). While it's not the only reason I've stayed in Neb. City, it's by far the biggest. I did get my one semester of normal college life (though it was at Tulane, so that should probably count for 3), but the rest ( Read more... )

If I did a top 5 list of my all time favorite people, it'd be about 3 pages long, because I could never pick just one person for each slot, so there'd end up being about 27 people all slashed together at #3.

However, I feel pretty good about saying that #1 on that list (with potentially only a couple slashes alongside him) would be Mike McGee.


( Read more... )