Well, UW grades have been posted, and I've officially completed my undergraduate degree. I feel relieved, but I suppose it will take a while for it to really sink in. Next challenge: somehow accumulating at least $2000 over the next two months to finance the road trip -- WILL HE DO IT??? Current vacation fund balance= $140. Stay tuned.

Well, things are looking up here. My permanent replacement teeth have been seated and I can once again chow down on all the apples, carrots, and saltwater taffy I want - they're BETTER than real teeth; JEALOUS? You too can have your very own porcelain beauties for the very reasonable price of a piggy-back face-plant. My Terminator red-eye is just ( Read more... )

What do a supposedly martyred Roman Catholic priest, the pagan sacrificial festival of Lupercalia, and the medieval belief that birds mate in February all have in common? Yep -- Tomorrow. On Valentine's Day, two things happen: (1)Those without romantic interests with whom to share the day are left feeling a bit excluded and wistful, and (2)Those ( Read more... )

It seems that about once a year my life is punctuated with a particularly unfortunate incident. I got it out of the way early for '06. I was giving a young lady an innocent little piggy-back ride last night, when I managed to stumble over a slightly raised portion of sidewalk. My startled passenger instinctively clutched me tightly as balance gave ( Read more... )

So late Sunday evening/early Monday morning, it came to my attention that this week I was to face TWO midterms 9 (ugh), TWO papers (arrrgh), and ONE really stupid memorized acting performance (...noiseless look of disgust). Blindsided by these demands (which reveals how completely unfocused I've been this final quarter), I have nevertheless emerged ( Read more... )

It's been a while. I'm pleased to discover that no site administrators have purged my account from the system due to lack of activity in the 7-or-so months since my last update. Sweet. Sleeping until 4:00 today pretty much guaranteed that, come bedtime (now), I would be wide awake. This is indeed the case. Not sweet. I guess it says something about ( Read more... )

Having not done so for some time, Nate and I hosted a rather rowdy party last night. I'll spare all those who were not in attendance the details, but in short: shitty Kent law enforcement was out to ruin our festivities. Sure we were wrestling and screaming "TITO" at every entrance of new arrivals and playing music loudly, but it's nothing we haven ( Read more... )

Campbell's beef and barley soup is sort of lacking in the flavor department, and the broth-to-beef/barley/other vegetable ratio is way to high; I'm fishing for barley plankton in an ocean of beef fluid ( Read more... )

Well everyone, summer vacation has arrived. I think I've nailed down some pretty nice grades this quarter, which kicks things off rather swankily. I want this summer to fill in what was lacking last June-August; I want this summer to be one of romance -- or at least satiated lust. I'm certainly not adopting a man-whore policy or anything, but a ( Read more... )

I'm nearly free for the summer; two finals (one Monday, one Tuesday) and I'm out. I will not graduate on schedule (i.e. in a week), but I don't care much -- I'll coast on out winter quarter. Any big plans for the summer, everyone? In addition to camping, backpacking, BBQing, etc., I propose a group event -- maybe another road trip or a little ( Read more... )