Drew:  I believe I was promised a rapture today.

Kellen:  Too bad God doesn't have any sense of irony.

Drew:  Yeah, no shit.  If he did, maybe he'd even do a half-rapture. You know, like raise all the Christian souls out of the cemetery, but only until they were right where the atmosphere ends.  And then he'd just let 'em fuckin' drop.  And we'd all ( Read more... )

well, my hearties, its done. i said yes to GMU this morning, so i am Fairfax, VA bound. they even gave me a teaching assistantship, which is the bomb diggity because i don't have to look for a job. if you want to be graced with my awesomeness you will have to do so before mid-August because after that i don't live here anymore. damn, that is ( Read more... )

"C'mon. You gotta shoot for the moon. That way, if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars."

--Chris Lee on the subject of why i should aim for a score of 100 rather than 75 when we were bowling last Sunday.  At the time, i had a 64 and we had 3 frames left to go.  I ended up with an 87.  But I landed amongst the stars, so it was all good.

a word to the wise:

"To such worthlessness, pettiness, vileness a man can descend! So changed he can become! Does this resemble the truth? Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man. The now ardent youth would jump back in horror if he were shown his own portrait in old age. So take with you on your way, as you pass from ( Read more... )

Me: "I have paint all over me because I worked for Habitat for Humanity all day."

Chris: "Habitat for Humanity? What the hell is that?"

Me: "C'mon. You know what Habitat for Humanity is. Jimmy Carter?"

Chris: "I don't know what that is. You know I'm not down with that humanity business. I'm interested in Chris Stegemanity."

Me: "Wow. Well, ( Read more... )

i do not like the Rolling Stones.  there.  i said it.  it's done.  Tony tried to convince me otherwise with a sure-to-convert-the-non-Stones-lover-in-you compilation, but to no avail.  (thanks, by the by, and a nice effort).  all the while i was listening to it, all i could do was scrunch up my nose and try to analyze why exactly i do not like them ( Read more... )

...but is it for the d?

it is March now, and today i got my first response from a grad program. and it was a "yes." so, so far, i am on a roll. 1 for 1. if i want, a place at George Mason University in the poetry MFA program is all mine.

i'm gonna wait to see if they offer me an assistantship (for which i'd have to go to Fairfax, Virginia, where ( Read more... )

Justin:  "Oh...I was hoping you wouldn't answer.  I was going to leave you a message about how much I hate Hawthorne Heights."

Me:  "Hawthorne Heights?  What's that?  Is that the building for old people next door to yours?"

Justin:  "No.  Its this band that always has commercials on.  I get pissed off everytime I see one.  God!  They suck."

Me:  "Oh ( Read more... )

quick. i need an enabler to give me an excuse not to go to this 4 hour snoozefest of a volunteer coordinator's meeting. it starts at noon, so you have about 10 minutes to respond with someplace way cooler that i should be going.

oh yes, i went there.  alright, kids, brace yourself for another gushfest about a band everybody else has probably already finished gushing over from the d.

so tonight i went to see Andrew Bird at the suggestion of Peter Dan--whose musical taste has only failed me once.  (psa:  do not see Camper Van Beethoven).  the show was at the Fine Line and ( Read more... )