This is a quick review.

I am currently taking a course in Irish Literature which I have long had a fascination with and affection for. I have thoroughly enjoyed this class and its texts, until yesterday. That was when I read Edna O'Brien's Night (1972), a short novel chronicling a single night with Mary Hooligan during which she recounts, as ( Read more... )

( better than studying )

Hello. It is Friday and so, as usual, I am both quite exhausted and very awake. I still work too much and relax too little, but that's not a complaint. Since I returned from Phoenix late Sunday night, I have literally had about two hours during which I was not at work, in class, or doing schoolwork. I have gone straight to work from class every ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport, waiting around for another hour+ before my flight to Phoenix to leaves. There are these wireless hotspots all over the airport, some nice and quiet with pleasant lighting and leather chairs. Here's the catch: you can't connect at any of them without setting up a T-mobile account. Which, out of ( Read more... )

So my nephew, ( Jack Morgan )

Wonderful. Just so we're clear, it's perfectly okay to offend Christians and Buddhists; we must be especially careful only to pander to Muslims. The reason? Why, because if we don't, the fundamentalists among them will riot in the streets and detonate car bombs and fly planes into our skyscrapers, of course. So we're going to send a clear ( Read more... )

This afternoon I was again lamenting along with my sister, another big Yankees fan, the loss of the beloved Andy Pettitte to Texas.

"I thought he would end his career with them," she said.

Our mother-- not entirely ignorant of baseball in general, but really just for lack of a choice-- overhearing our conversation, interjected:

"Well if they ( Read more... )

I suppose I will deign to keep you all waiting with bated breath no longer ( Read more... )

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I GOT PAID