Crappy grownup thing #1: Going to the dentist for a checkup, and being told that you should get a $1200 crown ( Read more... )

Today during the grad student council, I realized that I now could appreciate the idea of getting a phd in the humanities.  If you like writing, it could be a lot of fun.  Not that I'd want to do it myself.

So the good things first: I figured out that I can easily get the masters this semester, and it sounds like I might be able to spend the spring in Japan.  And I'm pretty sure I'm just going to take the job at Facebook, rather than shop around ( Read more... )

So I ought to do a longer post soon but ( Read more... )

Another crazy weekend.  Siena came by and we had ourselves a grand old time.

I bought Blacklisted, an older Neko Case album.  I need time to digest the rest of the album, but "I Wish I was the Moon" is great. Many of the songs have such an uncanny resemblance to later work that it sets me on edge. But this album came first, so I have to give it ( Read more... )

What the crap. EDIT: the LJ editor link thing was broken. Fixed now.

Things are going really well. Computers are dumb, but I guess that's where I come in ( Read more... )

Now I remember why I hate Joss Whedon. :(

So I feel like I've been comsuming more lj than I've been producing, and I should step up my game ( Read more... )

I'm trying this thing called Jott, which you call with your phone and then it transcribes what you're saying and post it to a million different things. It seems pretty sweet. I've mostly just been using it to make notes to myself, but you can also do blogs and stuff. So yeah, I can't do it for too long so I can't make a long entry or anything. But ( Read more... )