Jay and I planned out our life today. We're totally going to win. We'll spend about four or five years in Minneapolis. Then we'll go to either Seattle or Boston, considering our money situation. Jay will get his Ph.D. from Boston University and I'll get my Master's of Science from MIT. Then, I'll apply for a research grant for writing in ( Read more... )

jeff@desnews.com:

Regarding your review of TransamericaHello Mr. Vice ( Read more... )

I got in to University of Minnesota! ! And this is what they automatically give their students:

*a teaching assistantship, waiving up to 14 credits of class;
*12 grand a year stipend;
*HEALTH benefits!
*awesomeness

Sweet baby jesus, what a load off.

I just got an email from MIT's science writing program. It's clearly an auto-email, but it's from a professor who wants to "set up a time to talk about science writing" and MIT's program while the committee "makes its final decisions." Ok, 1) it's an auto-email, so you know, these things are going out to mutliple people, obviously; but 2), no ( Read more... )

i'm having a date with myself tonight. i have a book (hope leslie, or, early times in the massachusetts; don't worry, it's fascinating), pizza (or square bagels (really!) with pizza sauce and mexican cheese), beer (michelob ultra lite amber--the girliest redneckiest beer you really can get), a scarf i'm knitting, and a movie. kissing jessica ( Read more... )

i can't say how happy i was to wake up to SNOW. SNOWSNOWSNOWSNOW. YAY ( Read more... )

1. jay came home with me for christmas, and for my family party. it went well. jay was sitting in my living room, with my parents and my brother. su.rreal ( Read more... )

today, jay and i went to the woodland mall to do some christmas shopping. walking through sears, i saw this guy dressed up as santa, standing in the middle of the jewelry ringing some bells. as i was walking by, there was this little kid standing, staring up at him. all i heard of the exchange was the santa saying, in a slight brooklyn accent, " ( Read more... )

i was watching this dateline special about "women who say they've been raped" and learned something new. there is a thing called "sexual imposition." it is when a person has sex with another person when firstperson knows that the sex is "offensive" to secondperson. as opposed to "rape," when firstperson doesn't know that the sex is offensive to ( Read more... )

today, jay and i went to the mall to pick up a few things. on the way, i was looking out the car window. i saw a little kid sledding--or trying to sled--in his backyard, on a tiny hill. he got a running start, threw down his sled and then fell to his knees on that. his sled didn't move at all, and he somersaulted over his sled ( Read more... )