( Please I hope I'm not that stupid again. )

So this term's big thingy is the senior seminar (English 495), wherein I write a stonking big paper and discover the joy of the word "stonking." At least I get a fun topic: tracing the use and parodizing of folklore in Terry Pratchett's novel Witches AbroadMeanwhile, work is work. I've got three, possibly four things through another stage of ( Read more... )

Wow ... got a letter telling me I made the Dean's list for Spring term 2008.

Finally, straight A's.

So on the way back from work last night, I caught a quick sight of a raccoon running past. But that's not what I'm here to talk about ( Read more... )

Another entry on my bloggity thing?!

Onoes!

Or at least my first retcon on the Pokemorph MUSH. When you have to spend a half-hour explaining to a character all the reasons why he can't have an NPC walk past an armed, telekinetically-powered police officer, grab the person she's interrogating, throw him against a rock so hard that it shatters, and then Hyper Beam him at point-blank range ( Read more... )

I just spent all of last night, plus this morning, helping my sister re-floor the ground floor of her house. But hey, it's done (save for the caulking). And it looks really, really good, which is always a plus. She also likes how the acoustics make the piano sound a lot better, too.

Her husband's gonna be so surprised when he gets home.

Happy birthday, tibek.

So at the intersection of 700 north and 900 east, I got to see something of the spectrum of automotive behavior ( Read more... )

So, uh ... if you decide to buy a phone from Verizon, something you should know ( Read more... )