Rapunzel, rapunzel, oh let down from me
that long golden braid of liquidity!
Consider the works of man's energy:
the faucet, the sprinkler, the beer brewery!
Remember the rivers that lead to the sea:
the Hudson, the Nile, the Mississippi!

Have you read the scene in the novel "Revenge", by Jim Harrison? The one where our hero follows his quarry into a restroom, stabs the crap out of him in a urinal, and then leaves? Imagine this scene when the financial manager of the dining hall walks into the crapper as I am standing there fuming about the No Soy Milk And Crappy Peanut Butter ( Read more... )

It has come to our attention that the password for this livejournal account is facile ( Read more... )

There will be a dorm meeting this thursday after seminar (9:30).

Agenda:

Love
Trash
Kickball
Lullabye for Ezra

Please Attend.

JJ

So let's talk, livejournal. Because, man, it's been a while ( Read more... )

So today has been pretty nice. Drove down through Glorieta Pass to Pecos. Went to the house where a girl named Jesse claims she was "practically born". This was slightly confusing, but I soothed myself with the knowledge that it was in the middle of nowhere and right on the mostly-frozen Pecos river ( Read more... )

So all of you are probably wondering what ended up happening between Humphrey Bogart and that twitchy woman with the big black bird. Well I'm not going to tell you. Rent the film yourself ( Read more... )

Willickers! Who is ready to be back in Austin? My mother told me today (her birthday!) that when I got back I could go through my room and throw things away. This is actually one of my favourite things to think about, so as if there needed to be any fuel added to the ol' homefires, the prospect of crates full of my things being shipped to the cedar ( Read more... )

Cameron, on Pascal's assertion that "The weight of the mass of the air causes the flow of milk to nursing infants":

Count on it.

So Mr. Harrison and myself didn't finish our lab practicum on the day we were supposed to. Neither did we finish it on the extra day allotted to us on Saturday. So we convinced our Lab assistant to come in today, which is of course a sunday, and let us finish it. The only problem was that at some point during the density calculations, Mr. Harrison ( Read more... )