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Taking the mick out of Corvallis
Since leaving the Chamber of Commerce, I will confess to having picked up the Gazette-Times approximately four times in the past two years. I suppose this would account for the fact that I heard the following news item about our little town in the Lightening Fill-in-the-Blank round of 'Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me', as opposed to through more proper ( Read more... ) -
Me and Pepe le Pew
Up until today, the worst date I've had using the online mediated method of meeting people to maybe date was 30 Minute Man. For those of you who are new to the forum or don't recall my writing about this specimen, this is the man who sprang up from the lunch table about 30 minutes into our date, just about cutting me off in mid-sentence, saying, " ( Read more... ) -
Of kilts and bad nights
O, ye of little faith. Meaning me ( Read more... ) -
Love is a many splendored thing
Do we all seek that which will make us better, or are there some of us who seek those who will worship us as we are, no matter what direction our life courses take us ( Read more... ) -
men, men... men. wtf?
I've just broken up with one -- fortunately a relationship of not long duration -- and opted for a full tilt dive into the online personals as therapy. I'm not exactly sure what kind of therapy this is providing. So far, I have two 'dates' lined up, which is pretty record time for me, but one of them just sent me a message that gets me thinking ( Read more... ) -
losing mentors
I received an unhappy piece of information yesterday. I learned over a year after it happened that Fred Pfeil, one of the most significant mentors in my life, died about two months before my brother ( Read more... ) -
huff pff
I'm teaching four classes. I've ended my seven and a half year moratorium on dating. I have to design three more classes for spring term. What more can I say? -
Consolation prizes rock
I've been predicting that my mayoral candidate and the opposing candidate (the Sycophant) would be within 10 percentage points of each other ( Read more... ) -
Speaking academese
I whipped out the course descriptions for the three new classes I'll be teaching next term. I'm slightly concerned that they may sound a little graduate-student focused (overly egg-headed...?), given that they are undergraduate courses. Upper division undergraduate, but undergraduate none the less. The Web Cultures one may be especially guilty of ( Read more... ) -
poking around in the past, chatting with ghosts
Finally, I get an email from Barack Obama instead of John Kerry. It's about damn time.
I've been looking over past posts, dwelling a bit on those to which my brother commented. I could almost pretend he's still alive.
This toot on the romaticization of 'otherness' and wallowing in simulacral fantasies of how great things were back in the day ( Read more... )