yesterday i was readying graduation announcements to send out (at my mom's urging: "but people want to send you money"). i had just finished designing & printing out a little square card to go inside the folding card that explains my post-graduation plans ("look for a job & think about grad school") & lists our addresses & such. then i go to check ( Read more... )

this evening we fixed (loosely speaking) our new (thrift-store) bikes. by "fixed" i mean changed the front tire & inner tube on my bike (because wal-mart only had one tire of the correct size...), put air in ben's tires, oiled the chains, checked the brakes. we'll have to change the other 3 tires soon, but they worked well enough for us to ride ( Read more... )

last night i went through the drive-through at beto's.

in my truck. which, in case you forgot, is right-hand drive.

the guy at the window called all the other guys in the kitchen over to the window & they just stared.

Excerpts from a Yahoo! science article:

A new study finds people who attend religious services weekly live longer. Specifically, the research looked at how many years are added to life expectancy based on ( Read more... )

1 day til my mom's 49th birthday.
2 days til i see issue 17 of the cypress dome.
5 days til jess' birthday bash-em-smash-em-kapow-awesome.
6 more days of aaron & anna being here.
16 days til my presentation on louise gluck...& 1 of my 2 final projects for the semester will be completed.
21 days til i'm a college graduate.

1st, thank you so much everyone who read & commented on my article. it was immensely constructive to get that extra feedback.

( and so, i post my slightly re-worked ending )

the following is an article i wrote for a magazine i'm creating at school. i'm posting it here for 2 reasons:
1) genocide, no matter where it occurs or to whom, is everyone's problem.
2) i'd love to hear some suggestions for improvement. (or, if you love it, why.)

( The Tent Connection: Understanding Darfur )

...because i'm at work (McWeekly, not McBucks), & there's no more copy for me to fact-check now that i've finished the piece about same-sex ballroom dancing (it really exists--"dancesport" is a category in the 7th annual Gay Games)...but i have to be here for 4 hours today whether i'm being productive or not...so i'm waiting for someone to give me ( Read more... )

pretty silly when one of the most exciting bits of my day is:

i just saved 110% on car insurance by switching from Geico.

( weather forecast for asheville, north carolina (where i'll be for the next 4 days) )