Friday I partook of lunch at McDonald's.  Not a habit.  Not a good one, anyway.  Just necessary.  Unfortunately, I must have regular contact with those others of my economic bracket who quite often and quite vocally also represent the most frustratingly autonomous of all-the relentlessly exasperated and the imperturbable, the aimless needy, and the ( Read more... )

Okay, time for a light little jaunty entry. Everyone loves top ten lists. Well, ever since Dave Letterman didn’t die in the mid-nineties, the worn out top ten list has left some esteem on the table for High Fidelity’s top five list to pick up, but who’s really satisfied with just five? So now, in order to kick off what I hope to be much concerted ( Read more... )

As prophesied, my Spanish progresses with the sluggish steps of eighties claymation.  I at times feel quite accomplished (as this weekend, at a party, I spoke quite a bit of Spanish-granted to folks who were kind enough I’m sure to retard their dialect), while at others, I feel like nothing has changed-especially when I consider how well most of my ( Read more... )

Oh my.  I finally got the internet working in the apartment down here.  While I’m thinking about it, I will post my address/phone number coming up soon in a private post.

So Mexico…

I am here, and it is interesting.  My room is adequate (read: like a dorm room) but only costs 1800 pesos por mes (about 165 dollars a month).  I finally feel like I ( Read more... )

By now I’m sure you’ve heard, and “why?” must be the question pecking your mind. Let me try to explain without getting too deep ( Read more... )

Months have shuffled by since I’ve managed to spit more than a dribble of disconnected thought on the footnotes of pages more diligently kept than mine.  I know.  What is it pulls me from hiding?  What gives me go?  Why here?  Why now?

High school gave me everything I needed for a lovably selfish and laughably warped sense of purpose.  Look at me.  ( Read more... )

I put forth a bit of a serious entry today.  It turns out that I will have have high speed internet access in Mexico (yay!), but now I need to figure out how to get my computer there.  I've been told that shipping it (Fedex, etc) is a bad idea because things get hung up in customs or disapear.  It's a tower, and rather unwieldy.  Some ideas that I' ( Read more... )

I have a theory: despite what American popular culture might argue, Freedom and Comfort--while not exactly opposites--are quite detrimental to each other.  Ponder that.

I need a new email address (changed ISP).  Don't want to use the same old thing.  Been racking my brain.  Love suggestions.  Help.

Nostalgia hit today, and I starting thinking of video games I used to play and why I enjoyed them.  Coincidentally, I also spent the last few years in college.  There, we, the residents of Sullivan Hall second floor annex, pooled our collective computers, televisions, and consoles into a smorgasbord nirvana of video gaming overload (especially for ( Read more... )