I wish I had been born five to ten years earlier and could claim great 90s rock as the soundtrack to my favorite high school and college times. Instead of "Get Low."

For those of you not in the know -- maybe there's an impractical Catholic among you --, yesterday was the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. Dad, an employee of St. Joseph Catholic Church, had the day off, as the church office was closed for the holy day. So Dad and I attended noon Mass at his old weekday (Holy Day of Obligation) haunt: the ( Read more... )

The summer of unmet expectations is coming to an end. Here are my priorities for the time I'm here in Shreveport ( Read more... )

A The Office(BBC) moment:

Mary: so are they dating?
Adrienne: are they an item?
Luke/"Gareth": are they intimate?

you had to be there.

This is crazy! Remember the semi-creepy guy from the last entry? Read here! Guess he was legit after all. Poor guy. (Our encounter was the day before he went missing)

we're in colorado, but the new manager makes us second guess our summer employment. so we're likely becoming hermits this year. not a prob. b/c we'll be very fit hermits. and the townspeople will hike to our caves just to get a look at us fit hermits, yessir ( Read more... )

so i'm going to colorado to work for 11 weeks. should be nice.

also: alguien, where were you today for Gilberto Gil???

I've realized that I'm a (closet?) fan of New Wave. I wonder if this helps explain my love of Almodovar. I want to marry him, by the way. Or his brother.
I'm missing Spain today.
Can you believe school's almost up?

The best way to keep trucking thru late-night paper writing surely must be the vain thought of presenting a stellar paper with a truly new idea or combination of ideas. Granted, it's a research paper and I'm basically saying nothing new (or am I??), but I certainly get these little motivating visions of excellence ( Read more... )

Finally saw the Christmas special(s) of The Office (British). So very happy.

And now, back to work!