jim

aka "chex mix boy"

le sigh.

...this is why i love madison.

hey all you kids. how's tricks? like i said *this* close to having the internet again. it's hooked up and everything, but i need some kind of special cord for my laptop...interesting. it's been so long since lj has taken up a gigantic section of my life. i'm really not sure that was a good thing, but i wouldn't mind catching up a little round ( Read more... )

hey all. still no internet in my life. i'm over at the rents' checking my mail, formerly done at least seventeen times a day, now done once a week. i hope you're all doing quite well. sorry i'm not able to really check up on your lives. maybe someday ( Read more... )

Goodwins Law: prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically ( Read more... )

so i thought about doing an inventory of 2002, but why depress myself when i'm in such a good mood today?! all the good stuff is somehow tainted by badness. alice the new kitten? steve died. my new radtastic mazda protege? my car accident. graduating from the university of wisconsin-madison? still no job...i should have stayed in school ( Read more... )

sigh. christmas is over. we had a good run! it snowed in illinois on christmas eve, so i was extremely excited about that! unfortunately, i had to come back to brown milwaukee on christmas. ah well.

i hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. did you make like bandits?! i certainly did...

( The Official Run-down of Katie's Gifts of 2002 )

PRESENTS!!!

my family just opened gifts...yay!!! (we do our christmas the night before christmas eve every year because of our illinois trip)

i'll run down the gifts at another date, but three highlights include:

this righteous stain glass-esque louis armstrong jazz window decoration from my stepdad
ken burns' jazz 5-disc set that i've wanted ( Read more... )

joe strummer...oh my god. i seriously think i'm going to cry.

THE TWO TOWERS COMPLETELY RULES MY WORLD!!!!!!!!

why nice guys finish last

this is very insightful, relatively funny, and a little sad.