They don't let you take liquid on a plane over 3 oz, and I try to avoid checking bags whenever I fly. Toothpaste is the one thing I'm always displeased because it's never less than 5 oz. and you can't put it in a smaller container. I've hidden successfully in suitcases, but I can't really count on that method ( Read more... )

If Ann Arbor is a shining example, it is probably on account of the bright combination of sunshine and new snow. I love days like today. I'd love it more if I weren't sick with that crap everyone has (the sore-painful-to-swallow throat has become a generic runny nose, and the sleeping has become an exhaustive weird dreams, half awake period that ( Read more... )

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Merry Christmas to all ( Read more... )

The census has come to Ann Arbor, and specifically our co-op. They have left surveys at random for residents. One of the residents in my suite got it, except he's German and studying here for a year. Should he fill it out, or hand it off to someone else (i.e. me)?

Despite any dreams to the contrary, Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits did not follow up with a successful career in Hollywood, producing Sam Peckinpah's The WIld One.

If 4 boys and 1 girl share a bathroom, and the girl asks you to put the seat down when you finish, is there anything wrong with saying, "Sure. Would you mind putting it back up when you're done?"

Leftovers+couch+Arrested Development/screwball comedies= perfect ( Read more... )

In a few hours, I'll be off to Europe for some overdue travelling experience. I am excited ( Read more... )

Now that I have a working draft of my dissertation proposal, I can step back a little bit. I haven't written the chapter layout, in part because I'm still deciding that. But I'm happy with it. Other notable past events ( Read more... )