It is amazing to see a group of five musicians stoned as all get out at 9:45 in the morning on a weekday, just before they perform for a group of first through sixth graders.

That is all.

Let's see... over the course of the weekend, I'll be at the Old Town School of Folk Music for:

-10 am tomorrow, Field trip
-9 pm tomorrow, concert
-3 pm on Saturday, Go-Go class
-Noon on Sunday, Guitar 1 Rep
-(forgot this one) 6 pm on Saturday, concert

So... yeah. I should try not to book things quite so densely for the next few weeks.

Believe it or not, I've been known to do things other than run down to HP and deal with administrative hassles. I had a party this weekend! I played pub trivia. I have read three books in the last week. I'm just not blogging about it.

So... went to HP today.

+ Met my adviser! She's nice.
+ And she has a mini Dwight Shrute bobblehead doll! She also ( Read more... )

Moto: really very good. Lots of stuff done involving liquid nitrogen, including my favorite thing (pancakes!).  Only one part of one dish was a complete failure (part of the cotton candy three ways dish--it was like a funnel cake made out of vermicelli noodles with very little flavor), but the other two parts of the dish (cotton candy paper and ( Read more... )

Thanks to 
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Graduating? March? Maybe?

Petitioning, petitioning. Wait wait, please tell me.

More to come.

Finished Omnivore's Dilemma. I have a 33 1/3 book I'm now working through (of course), but those are like little nibbles in between my big-meal books. So what should I read next?

-A book on French salon culture from the age of Louis XIII to the Revolution;
-Nancy Mitford's book on Louis XIV;
-Jean Renoir's book about his father;
-Fortress of ( Read more... )

Of interest to probably nobody:

Helvetica documentary @ the Siskel? Thursday at 6:15 or 8? Anyone? 

I met a really attractive guy. Not especially interesting, except that he was named Herb.

I told this to Mr. Z, who deemed the story blogworthy, as this may be the only hot Herb in existence.

"Dude, I didn't realize Alexis de Tocqueville was such a piece!" - after I saw his picture in the NYRB