Some items found in my office upon arrival:
- One bottle of anti-blackhead facial solution, full
- ziploc bag of cotton wipes for above solution
- slightly worn copy of Don Quixote - at least 300 identical business cards ( Read more... )

My first trip out of Brussels and I've already gotten sunburned ( Read more... )

I'm leaving in half an hour. I should be doing something other than this - brushing my teeth, last minute packing/reorganization/cleanup ( Read more... )

In a week and four hours I will be leaving for Brussels. It feels like such a long time since I've experienced a summer in Fairfax. Only two years, really. But at the same time I never realized that I have not spent a summer around here where I wasn't employed by the camp. It'll probably be a shock when I finally find a job around here and realize ( Read more... )

"I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women."
~from Selected Letters of James Joyce regarding his wife

Maybe I'm just crazy or disgusting, but that's a special kind of romantic.

One of my awesome philosophy professors is always talking about how we, as a class and generation, don't read. Constantly making references to books, only to find us looking quizzically at him; he soon realizes that he's the only person in the classroom that has even heard of these titles. This past weekend, I actually got around to trying to look ( Read more... )

- Would a gravity model work for predicting the impact of one state's environmental damage on another state's economic growth? Of course it would depend on the type of damage (CO2 emissions, deforestation, etc) and how exactly the two were connected.

- Am I re-living October 2006 all over again?
Quite possibly. At least this time I can ( Read more... )

I shut down AIM and the conversations disappeared with it. Fuck.

I received an e-mail saying that I received my security clearance. IF THIS IS A SICK APRIL FOOLS DAY JOKE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO DIE.

Fuck you, Sue.