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Anyone Wanna Go to Vegas?
I just got an email from Circus Circus casino and hotel that this Sunday and Monday nights they have rooms for $39 a night. Divided by two people that's...uh...like 20 bucks a night. Four people...well you get the idea. Anyone wanna go to Vegas ( Read more... ) -
Tragedy and Farce
The following is a commentary I wrote for class today. It came out as more of a blog/essay than a scholarly critique, so I thought I would put it here. It's in response to reading The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright and the page citations are for that book ( Read more... ) -
Colts Win!
Now that was a classic AFC championship game if I ever saw one. Colts were down 21-3 in the first half but managed a miraculous second half comeback to win 38-34. The Colts are my second favorite team, as I picked them up during my four years in college in Indiana. And I am glad that they finally get to the Super Bowl ( Read more... ) -
Snow!
Well, flurries anyway. And a brisk, cold wind below the freezing point! I'm glad I at least got to feel it before I head out.
Tonight around midnight I get on a train bound for Chicago where I catch another train bound for California. Will be back in on Friday.
Bon Voyage! -
Home
I've been home for almost a month now. I board the train again Tuesday night for the long trip back to the West Coast. So I thought I would write a general reflection on a trip home that marked the longest I'd ever been away from Wheeling, West Virginia without so much as visit--just under a full year ( Read more... ) -
Who Would Jesus Hang?
decided I would go ahead and post the text of a letter I sent to the editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer/News-Register today. It was in response to an editorial they ran over the weekend in regards to he execution of Sadaam Hussein in Iraq, which has put a bit of a cloud over an otherwise fun New Year's weekend of college bowl games and family ( Read more... ) -
Train of Thought
As far as I'm concerned, trains are the very best way to travel. You might think I made this decision as I read four chapters of my all-time favorite book with the Pacific Ocean lapping against the shore on my right. Or when, having pulled the curtain closed to shut out the interior lights from reflecting on the window, I ducked my head under ( Read more... ) -
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Or country railroads, I guess. Getting on a train today in just a couple hours now. I'll be home very early Wednesday morning, eastern time. Talk to everyone again then! -
MOUNTAINEERS WIN!
What a game. Down 10-3. Up 20-10. Down 23-20. Then tied and into over time. Not just one overtime, mind you. THREE overtimes. And a 41-39 victory over Rutgers!
GO MOUNTAINEERS! -
Eventual Procrastinator
Well, just twelve more days and I'll be getting on a train to head home to West Virginia. In that time, I have to write two 15-20 page papers and take an oral exam. (not the dental kind) Five hundred points if you can guess how many of those pages I have written as I go to bed tonight!
The correct answer?
Zero.
I have not yet even begun to