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Let's do the wave!
For those of you not familiar with Denver's Light Rail system, a little background. Near one of the stops for downtown Denver (the 16th and California stop, to be precise,) there is a restaurant where one of the employees almost invariably stands outside the entrance and waves to the passing Light Rail trains. In fact, this is such a regular ( Read more... ) -
Smoking - just because it isn't for me doesn't mean it's not for you.
This morning, as those of you in the Denver-Boulder area could attest, was a little on the nippy side. Normally on mornings like this, I would prefer to wait inside the shelter at the stop where I catch the bus to Denver, but today I ended up waiting outside the shelter. Why? Someone was standing inside the shelter smoking. This is not the ( Read more... ) -
Ethical public discourse - it isn't easy.
Not once but twice within a couple of days of last Wednesday's class discussion on public discourse I caught myself bashing a certain group of people, in this case, the Tea Party. One of these times was immediately following the class, and in a discussion with a classmate, to boot! True, both times I recognized what I was doing, but it doesn't ( Read more... ) -
Gadamer, Georgia, and "Go Buffs!"
As much as I hate to say it, the time when I am the most embarrassed to be a University of Colorado football fan is when I am watching the game at the stadium. Oh, don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the games, and I still love my team, but it is there that the student section, and their seeming lack of sportsmanship, is at its most obvious. This ( Read more... ) -
general update sort of thing
So, I am sure that some of you *cough*Evan*cough* may well have been wondering what has happened to me. Quick version: Fall sucked, winter went better, spring is here, and going well, and starting after Knox's (And my girlfriend's!) graduation in June, I will be moving back to Colorado, and heading back to school in the fall ( Read more... ) -
I told ya I'd get around to this!
Ok, so FINALLY I will be posting my Japan journal at some point (the trip, remember, was fall '06). This first post will be the first couple of days. The rest will come later, after I reconstitute the notes I have into something more readable than bullet points ( Read more... ) -
Meme time.
Protected
RULES:
_ Pick your birth month.
_ Strike out anything that doesn't apply to you.
_ Bold (or italicize) the five-ten that best apply to you.
_ Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months under a lj-cut.
_ Tag 5 people from your friends list. (not going to bother with this.)
JANUARY: Stubborn and hard-hearted. Ambitious and ( Read more... ) -
Devon = not dead!
After :checks date: about 13 months since my last post, and probably something like 10 months since last logging in, I decided to log in to LJ. I have yet to backtrack through the pages upon pages of old entries of a couple of people (Evan and Susan, this means you!) Rest assured, though, I shall re-addict myself to this site, and do so in the ( Read more... ) -
The Swiss are coming! The Swiss are coming!
I found a link to a news article over on a forum that I frequent, and found it amusing enough to share here.
The Swiss invade LichtensteinIn my life, aside from my Japan Term project (and I swear I will post those journal entries!), finals look fairly easy, actually. I leave for Colorado on Sunday, and will have about a week there. Hopefully, ( Read more... )