friday, 11/19: dulles to long beach.
friday, 11/19 - monday, 11/22: crash at various friends' places.
saturday, 11/20: friend's wedding.
monday, 11/22: head up to santa maria.
thursday, 11/25: thanksgiving with parents.
friday, 11/26: long beach to dulles.

i would like to announce formally that i have reached a momentous decision.

i will dress up as chairman kaga for halloween.

( if you (inexcusably) do not know who chairman kaga is, see for yourself )

is it true: is giving up the only form of wising up ( Read more... )

( i unravel. )

i just found out that i'm basically guaranteed to get a two-day-a-week teaching schedule next semester. which means i'll have four day weekends again ( Read more... )

so i finally got around to watching lost in translation. i'm pretty ambivalent about it, i guess. i was thoroughly sick of the "japanese people are funny! they're short! and they speak japanese, which is a funny sounding language! they're zany!" humor about twenty minutes into the film ( Read more... )

derrida is dead.

longer hair has led to tangling problems.

advice?

salon-brand shampoo & conditioner?

why is it that when i go to bed at my normal hour (between midnight and two), i can't wake up before ten, but when i stumble home and go to bed at four, i wake up for no reason at nine twenty ( Read more... )

for all my hard work, my amazon.com credit card company sent me a $25 gift certificate.

the sensible thing to do would have been to get $25 worth of stuff for free.

since i am not a sensible man, i bought the following two items:


( Read more... )