Been a very long time since I've posted anything here, and I don't really have anything to say now. But I wanted to some forum in which to crow about being mostly done with the stupid paper for my stupid computer cartography class. I picked a poor topic. And I invested way too much energy in it, given that it's a paper that counts, as far as I ( Read more... )

Lo, I have created a facebook page.  I have always been absolute crap at keeping track of people over a distance (or close up, for that matter), and I'm really sick of being asked "Are you on facebook?" by people I quite like and only see once in a blue moon.  If you read this and I haven't sent you some sort of friending message, it's because I'm ( Read more... )

Back from the wilds of New Mexico as of Friday afternoon, but slept through much of Saturday, lounged around on Sunday, and was ill with some horrible stomach thing yesterday (this is what happens when you get back to civilization after a month, I guess).  Field work was lovely and exhausting -- it's much more work to be in more of a supervisory ( Read more... )

I should be working, but I wanted to add another entry to my collection of household pest rants ( Read more... )

I defended my thesis at 3 pm this afternoon.  While I still need to tidy up the last up the revisions and submit the formal final draft to the graduate college, the degree completion paperwork is in.  So it's official:  I'm a Master of Arts.

And in a terrible anticlimax, I had to go to my bloody introductory spanish evening class afterward.  And ( Read more... )

Just read Anthony Lane's review of Watchmen in the New Yorker .  [There are spoilers in the review, particularly if you haven't read the comic.]  I haven't seen the movie, and I already had quite low expectations. . . .

But what puzzles me about the review is Lane's apparent contempt for comic books (yes, I do mean comic books, dammit, not graphic ( Read more... )

As of 12:55 am January 17, 2009, I finally submitted a complete draft of my Master's thesis to my adviser.  It is 82 pages long, counting references, but not figures or tables.  Tomorrow, I'm going to sleep until I wake up and then I'm going to do celebratory nothingness all damn day.

PETA, always a little bit. . . out there, has apparently decided that the best way to save fish (yes, fish) from rampant human consumption is to get people to realize just how cute they are.  By rebranding them as "sea kittens."  If this were April, I'd presume NPR was making it up.

Here's the NPR story and here's the actual website .

For some reason, I now get a warning message every time I log in to my email account telling me that my password will expire on December 31, 1969.

With Zombies, courtesy of the New Yorker.