Today on the bus I was sitting across from someone, so if I looked straight ahead I'd basically be looking directly at her. She spent most of the bus ride with her eyes diverted off to the right, roughly in the direction of the guy sitting next to me, who was reading a magazine. Whatever, basic bus situation ( Read more... )

Wow, the song KEXP is playing right now samples the default Nokia ring tone. I don't know what to think of that.

This is what I have planned this weekend! When should I hang out with you, four Northfield people I know who read this?

Thursday:7:30p - Arrive at airport. Hopefully Mike will be there to pick me up, and I will roll down the 35 ( Read more... )

Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004

I see that the forecast for Northfield on Friday night calls for a 30 percent chance of rain mixed with snow in the evening. Figures.

So I totally forgot to register yesterday, on account of not bothering to get out of bed until about 2:30 and then watching baseball all day. At Carleton this would have resulted in me not getting any classes I wanted and having to be stuck taking stupid intro-level classes with freshmen; here it just means I'm waitlisted for things and am stuck ( Read more... )

Okay, before Neal gets back and I have to talk him off the cliff, I just want to say that the Twins deserved to lose this game and they still aren't built to make a serious run at a pennant. I think what pained me the most was seeing them chase Vazquez and get a 5-1 lead, with the Yankees bringing in Loaiza, and then having every Twin who came up ( Read more... )

After Grant Balfour struck out Jeter just now, Joe Buck actually said this:

"For a guy who has 'ball four' written on his back, this guy's throwing nothing but strikes."

http://www.samdamon.com/damon/tim_ryan.wmv
http://homepage.mac.com/drewthaler/TimRyan.mp3

(via Daily Kos)

The Magnetic Fields are going to be playing Durham on December 4th. :D :D :D