I'd had The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing checked out for a month (renewals online are beautiful) and had just renewed it the day before her Nobel was announced. Sure enough, there are now twenty-five holds on the first returned copy. Guess I'd better finish it. :)

But to put that in context, the latest Oprah Book Club Book, Love in the Time ( Read more... )

Nothing says "oops" like splitting your pants from front to back when you squat down - until you realize you've spray painted your laptop.

I want to go to one of the /. anniversary parties, but the one in Ann Arbor conflicts with my planned visit to Chicago coinciding with Bo's family visiting, the ones in Chicago are all this coming weekend, when I'll be in New York, and the ones in New York are all two weeks later. I can't justify skipping Chicago for a meetup of people I've never ( Read more... )

I've had my eye on the UMS Choral Union ever since I saw they'd be singing Bach's St. Matthew Passion next season. While I visited their website sometime within the past month (it might have been as little as two weeks ago), there was no information on the auditions. Tonight I visited again and see that auditions are yesterday, tonight, and ( Read more... )

If you do it for me, I'll do it for you!
Basically, this is a promo for the Golden Compass movie. You take a mini-personality test and then it generates you a daemon - but you can also have your friends confirm it by filling out a shorter quiz and the daemon will change if your friends' responses are different from your own results.
So...

( is my daemon an ocelot/ladybug/wolf...? )

So you may have heard of Eragon by the teen writer Christopher Paolini. It topped the bestseller list and spawned a movie most notable for special effects ( Read more... )

I bought a Wii today. That is to say, I stalked the GameStop all month and arrived when they got their shipment.

It's not even for me (unless I get lucky) but the thrill of the chase is enough.

I bought a cheap guitar. Campfire singalongs, here I come. (in the 20 years or so it takes me to learn to play the thing. come for the reunion tour.)

I may also be confirmed for officially teaching graduate neuroanatomy next year. Woo!

( Letter meme. )

Some of you may be familiar with a recent piece of Sony wizardry known as God of War (II). Bo obtained the sequel recently upon its release, and brought it with him when he came to visit this past weekend, so we spent a couple hours this weekend playing that - or rather, I played under his eye since he's already started it ( Read more... )

( venting )