I just finished reading Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding. It's a raucous & bawdy story, written in the 18th century, about the adopted bastard son of a country gentleman in England. The story itself is hilarious, but even better than the story is the author's continuous commentary in each prologue, which is also liberally sprinkled throughout the ( Read more... )

Are there any good The Game shirts this year? People who are still walking through Commons every day for blunch, let me know!

So I just logged onto livejournal yesterday for the first time in over a month, and was sorely disappointed to find that "see previous entries" on the friends page only goes back to 40. So if anyone posted anything before, oh, last week that I should have responded to, then I apologize for my absence ( Read more... )

Yup, still doing my thing. I'm in Germany now. Thanks to the people who have sent me postcards from near and far :) There will be responses in kind, as always -- fear not. My internet access has been subpar -- up until yesterday I couldn't access anything through the language center during the day, and here in the house the family pays for internet ( Read more... )

For the first half of this week I was in New York, visiting Margaret and Richey from St Andrews! Margaret very graciously offered me a loft in her apartment to crash in for a few nights, while Richey had come to New York on the QM2 (from England) and was spending a few days traveling around the city for her birthday. It was great fun to see both of ( Read more... )

This infuriates me:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8540381/Laptops cost $850, whereas books cost $500-600? And then school districts wonder why they don't have enough money. Kids will lose their laptops, break them, download viruses, pour drinks all over them ... plus the school will have to pay for keeping software up to date. A good set of books, ( Read more... )

Best record store ever:


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Got this from Richey and decided to post my responses here ( Read more... )

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/317296p-271224c.html

I just realized something else that's been bothering me about work: there's almost no paper. No notebooks full of calculations, no reference textbooks, not even any post-its!

O, for some graph paper and a pencil...