Looking back over the course of my history with this thing, I believe I have, at this point, spent more time ignoring it than I have posting to it. I'm starting to miss the process of writing, though, and this journal is one of the ways that I keep that in practice. There might be others, which may or may not see the light of day. I'm elbow-deep in ( Read more... )

Okay, this isn't the first time one of Slate's reviews made me roll my eyes. (Check for my Watchmen counter-review a few months back.) But it's a pair that has shown me a common and very, very irritating theme ( Read more... )

My iPod was declared dead yesterday. It had been acting funny for a while, but stopp completely several weeks ago. I took it to the Apple store to have it looked at, in Delpic style, by a "Mac Genius," who charged the pads, yelled "Clear!", charged to 300... and called it ( Read more... )

First lie: I'm never moving again.I'm moving again. Since Matt and I finished last in the new-roomate-location event, the two of us have been living in a 3-bedroom house for several months now. We have one room that is completely empty, and another that we use primarily for the storage of empty cardboard boxes, in case we need them for moving ( Read more... )

So, I'll put aside for a moment my shock that we're already in December, and focus on my shock that my last post was dated in October. I have fallen out of the habit of posting, I suppose, until something fires up my dorky obsession.

This could possibly be because day-to-day life is fairly routine. Work ( Read more... )

It's not every day that you kill three small animals, remove their spleens, and smash them into mush, all in front of a girl you met a week ago. For me, that's only on Mondays.

(The girl is our new student assistant. You never really know how ( Read more... )

Serenity.

Guh. Buh. Huh. Whew.

Further thoughts later.

Over the course of the last two weeks, we've moved from our old house to a slightly smaller one just around the corner. During this process, I was completely without internet at home. So, I scraped by with the barest necessities, relying on work for my internet access, much as our ancestors must have. However, I'm finally reconnected, and have a ( Read more... )

I believe there are enough people who read this who, like me, attain simultaneous levels of Harry Potter dorkdom and literature dorkdom to appreciate this piece of bloody brilliance.I'm astounded, not just by the audacity of the idea, or that someone put the time in to actually do it, but also by how well they actually did some of the adapting. I ( Read more... )

As a dork, why do I find midnight releases absolutely irresistible? I've probably participated in nearly a dozen in the last few years, as part of the three juggernauts of pop dorkdom: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter. And now, I'm gearing for a midnight trip to the Regulator for the sixth book release. Why can't I stay away ( Read more... )