Downside to working High School-the 5:50 alarm clock. My brain is a tired husk.

I'll get used to it, eventually.

The Ace Hardware in Central Islip is going out of business and everything in the store's at *least* 50% off. There's a craptop of home appliances and basic power tools/household tools still in stock. I got a brand-new uber-Foreman grill for twenty bucks. Anyone who might need things for their places might want to head over there in the near ( Read more... )

Thinking about doing one of these hundred book challenge things now that I'm reading for fun and not for papers.

(obscure-ish baseball comment here)
...when I joked back in October that Brian Cashman and Omar Minaya divided this year's crop of free agents among them while getting lap-dances in Manhattan, I was sort of joking. But did I hit on something there? Looks like we're landing Derek Lowe. *glee*

It's official. I'm done. =D

The Yanks are really signing Teixeira? On top of Sabathia and Burnett? Dear god.

At approximately 1:17 PM this afternoon, I shook Professor Barnhart's hand, wished him a happy holiday, and said I'd see him in May at the departmental graduation. And I finished my body of coursework as an undergraduate at Stony Brook. Nine years later, but who's counting.

And HOLY CRAP SNOW.

Now to get my laptop fixed. TO BEST BUY (tomorrow

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_4_kosovo_muslims.html

Posting, for now, without comment. Another one of those spots on the map that people remember that we bombed and then forget about, a few years later.

Cut for spoilers.

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Note to self-call cousin later.