Hark rejoice! Tis the traditional birthday post ( Read more... )

Life is good ( Read more... )

So the St. Louis Cardinals won. We sat in the fourth level of the stadium, so we were really looking DOWN at the game. I could look straight out and see the skyscrapers of St. Louis. And perhaps 2/3 of the St. Louis arch. The view was spectacular, but it was dark enough by the time we got there that it didn't show up at all well on cell phone. I ( Read more... )

Well I got back from the Center retreat today. Twenty-three talks in two days. Only two of them by native english speakers. Good stuff ( Read more... )

Its always an ego boost when you're out in the world doing some mundane errand with someone WAY out of your league and get complimented on being a cute couple, you know? When the away out of your league girl ends up coming back to your place to watch tv and eat pizza, that's good. When she ends up doing your dishes before she leaves . . . well that ( Read more... )

So I got back from my first day at my fifth job in two and a half years. (Oh the joys of being in college.) The city, frankly, scares me. One of my fellow interns is a local, and I asked him if there are any parts of the city that it would make sense to avoid. His answer, while describing a great deal of geography that I couldn't make heads or ( Read more... )

Good food, monty burgers ( Read more... )

Citizens of the world, I address you now, for the first time from Fremont, Indiana. The locals of Fremont are a peaceful people. They shall fall before our conquering hordes. That is if we HAD any conquering hordes ( Read more... )

1st guy: "Where's a good vegetarian restaurant around here?"
2nd guy: "I don't know."
1st guy: "But you're majoring in plant science. You must know of someplace."
2nd guy: "And you're pre-med, but I don't expect you to know where the best local cannibal restaurant is.

So I'm outside waiting for my organic chemistry finals to start, and I notice the dedication plack for the room I'm in.

"The Graham Family
Rebecca '02
Lauren '05
Stephen '07"

Now since this IS the year 2007, that means that Stephen Grahmam has had a room dedicated to him by the university while still enrolled. I wonder if he studies here . . .