• Cynthia: hmm
  no big deal
• Melissa: no big deal
  at least you're wearing deodorant
• Lindsy: sounds fine to me
  i dont think i would do it in a restaurant or on stage or anything
• Becky: maybe slightly weird but much better than stinking in public.
• Jaclyn: depends... public bathroom ... ok... in a restaurant... weird and gross

Things worth noting:

• Rio is having the Olympics now (more yay than boo).
• Bob Saget will be in Columbus next month (yay).
• Went to the beer tasting for the 4th consecutive year, and while I don't remember all the beers I drank, I did write them all down with tasting notes, so I can find out what to have again (yay).
• The Columbus Crew are the best team ( Read more... )

Conveniently ignoring the fact that I'm in debt for the first time in my life (see below), I consider myself to be rather financially responsible. But I wonder if in order to be so, you either have to be raised that way, or gain it through learning from your mistakes. For a person or a family, there can be some pretty serious repercussions for ( Read more... )

Hey everybody, feel free to repost this, or otherwise pass this on if you agree (or comment and tell me why you think this might be a bad idea). Maybe if enough people send this to their representatives, it might hit critical mass.I would like you to consider a program to give compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) to every American household. ( Read more... )

Ivana asked me if I heard our neighbor's alarm clock in the morning. I said, yeah, but it doesn't bother me. I just do a Fourier transform, subtract the offending frequencies, and go back to sleep.

"Procrastinating was a way of giving myself permission to do a less than perfect job on a task that didn't require a perfect job. As long as the deadline was a ways away, then, in theory, I had time to go the library, or set myself up for a long evening at home, and do a thorough, scholarly, perfect job refereeing this book. But when the deadline ( Read more... )

Waiting for Mark-Paul Gosselaar to do a Bud Light Drinkability advertisement.

In other news, I still procrastinate. But needing eighteen pages in a week isn't too bad by prior standards.

Thank God.

Now hopefully everybody will get on with their lives.

I just spent an interesting evening with an Australian fellow named Dan. The three of us (Ivana, Dan and I) spent a while chatting, before we met up with some fellow Americans (undergrads at Kenyon, Princeton and who knows) before he sent us on our way with the other Americans (this lasted about 3 minutes before Ivana and I decided to catch a cab ( Read more... )

I've but two games (and am using my roommate's Wii), but here are my friend codes to:
Mario Kart:
Dave: 0130-2208-1332
Smash Bros:
Dave: 4682-8139-4870