So I'm actually sitting here typing on a Mac. Yes, folks, Neil is using an Apple product outside of music or art. It's pretty crazy actually - I have very little idea how Macs work. Granted, the most important thing about Macs is that you're not supposed to know how they work - you just use them. Just the same, I considered myself at one time ( Read more... )

So there's this whole different idea of how to find a husband or wife in ( Read more... )

I know it's been a while since I've updated...I'm sorry to my reader. Some crazy things are going on, and I'll document them the best I can ( Read more... )

So I went food shopping today at my local C-Town. I went in with the vaguest of plans...I have no food, and this is where you get food. I kinda knew I wanted to get some easy to prepare foods, some pasta, some protein, some breakfast food, and some stuff to munch on. When I completed my shopping and arrived back at home, it turns out I got no ( Read more... )

I travelled today (well, yesterday, since it is past midnight) from Staten Island to Upper Upper Manhattan by public transportation, carrying a rather large, bulky and heavy duffel bag. While sitting on the ferry, I noticed a very interesting thing - there was a mop/broom closet across from where I was sitting that had all kinds of warnings on the ( Read more... )

For the past couple of days I've been envisioning writing this journal entry. This is the first time I'm writing from my apartment in Manhattan, and I feel like I need to say something extremely significant and awe-inspiring. After all, many people probably think of it as a bloody miracle that I've moved out of my house at all. Other people may ( Read more... )

Tomorrow will begin my next grad adventure.  My orientation for the program begins tomorrow, and I'm a strange blend of excited, apprehensive, wired, and just downright scared.  It's a pretty big risk I am taking by putting everything on hold for two years and getting into many tens of thousands of dollars of debt just to do the prerequisite work ( Read more... )

So for a while now I've been driving with only one headlight.  The other bulb burned out, and when I had gone to Pep Boys to get a replacement they didn't have it in stock.  It wasn't a big deal...getting a bulb was on my list of tasks ( Read more... )

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Since I'm starting my program at Columbia soon, I've been looking for a place to live within reasonable commuting distance.  For a variety of reasons, this search had not been going as well as I had expected.  There were two friends of mine who were interested in getting an apartment with me - someone from the Fellows program that I know, and the ( Read more... )