Last night I attended Shauna's 32nd birthday party with Meghan, Matt and Vassar. Excepting that warehouse show, I haven't been out and amongst in excess of four other people in a really long time. I actually had a lot of fun. Shauna laid out some excellent food, and even packed each of us these little food platters when we left. I have already ( Read more... )

Also: I'm pleased to announce that I'll be writing a hefty paper on the foraging patterns, troupe dynamics, and troupe vocalization of Indri indri, based on other peoples' research. Perhaps this will galvanize me into action and motivate me to finally finish analyzing all of the data from my own research... but I doubt it. Anyway... the Primate ( Read more... )

I just caught the latter half of Doogie Houser's new show, and I'm ashamed to say that I actually thought it was pretty good. In the episode one character escaped a wine tasting parties to join his buddies at a dance club. I particularly found funny the way they're yelling in the cab on the way home because their ears are ringing. During this ( Read more... )

Whenever the fancy strikes me, I like to walk here and poke around on the beach, do some birding, complete required readings, and whatever else. I'd really like to visit the beach today, but there's one problem: I also need to take Bahiana for a walk, and Bahiana does not like things that are wet, rocky, sandy, or otherwise not verdant fields ( Read more... )

I recently read Paul's take on enemy acquisition and have put much consideration into what he posits. He concludes with: "I insist that having the right enemies is crucial to finding one's place in the world. After all, self-definition must be a pre-requisite for self-actualization. Find the right enemy and you really find yourself ( Read more... )

At the behest of Nada "I-have-thousands-of-degrees" Oakley, I have begun research for and composition of my term paper on the importance of The Wife of Bath to the development of British humor. The stock of resources is astounding. The calibre, not as much so.

If I could, I would do my entire paper on this drawing (which I found using google ( Read more... )

In the upcoming film adaptation of Beowulf, Angelina Jolie will star as Grendel's mother. Rather than the horrible, vengeful, subhuman mere-hag dam of an outsized monster person (which she's portrayed as in the text), she will be "the queen of darkness, who tempts the Viking as he makes his way in the quest to become king."

I'm sorry that I keep ( Read more... )

Nothing makes me happier than when the guy who looks like a slightly more gay Hugh Laurie is overseeing things in the computer lab or the library. The other day I saw him riding his bike down the street. He was wearing a helmet.

Paper is progressing smoothly.

With my book (Norton Anthology of British Literature: The Middle Ages), I also lost The Boyhood Deeds of Cu Chulainn and an article on how megachiroptera may actually be primates. Please everyone I have a class with (and there is one of you from each of my classes reads this), keep your eyes peeled.

It's so dumb the ( Read more... )

Also, today I was yelled at IN SIGN LANGUAGE!

A man walked directly into me today as I was crossing the sidewalk to go from the street to a building, and as I apologised, he began to gesticulate effusively while making angry expressions! I have never been yelled at silently before! When I told Julia about it, she shared with me a story about ( Read more... )