good things that have happened lately: grape festival, joseph stiglitz, office shenanigans, readings, a free end table, a new coffee machine at work, the arrival of autumn.

good things that will happen in a few hours: mates of state show! i really haven't been to a show in a while and am looking forward to it. and it's at the state theatre, which as ( Read more... )

looks like this is going to be one of those bulleted posts

• my family came to visit this past weekend, which was very fun/educational. edufunctional. funductaional. edufuntastic. patrick has pictures and will/should post them (soon, eh?)
• some days i really enjoy my job. some days i enjoy it less. i'm not sure how i feel about that. overall, i ( Read more... )

so maybe i'm a big dork (probably) but i was completely blown away by all the new things that apple introduced yesterday. especially the introduction of movies and games to itunes, the increased resolution of videos,  itunes 7.0 with new ipod sync features and the ability to automatically update all album covers, the new 80gb ipod, and the second ( Read more... )

photographic highlights of the past few weeks:

angie and i fell into the tourist trap that is lurray caverns

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*it is kind of amazing how quickly people have joined in opposition to the new facebook newsfeed. in less than two days the official petition group has more than 200,000 members and every time i refresh my page there are 100 new members. and there are around 500 other opposition groups.

people have pointed out how great it would be if they rallied ( Read more... )

today is a great day because verizon finally came and fixed my dsl! service ready date = july 20th. actual date service was ready = august 24th. but during the course of my complaining they gave me two free months of service. it was a nice gesture, but i'm not sure it makes up for the emotional damage and withdrawal that i suffered.

anyway, now that ( Read more... )

agh! all of a sudden the summer is done. or almost done. actually, it doesn't feel like the summer ever really existed in the world of young professionals (which is a wretched, wretched world); the most unsummerish summer of all summers. i mean, all things considered, i did a lot, but it never feels like that much. among other things i DID visit a ( Read more... )

if i forget to remind myself of how good life is, i sometimes forget ( Read more... )

it's a slow morning at work so i think i can afford a quick update ( Read more... )

i've moved in! this weekend i'm back in rochester for john and anne's wedding and patrick's graduation [and a little foreign film festival]. i'm going back on tuesday to help angie move in.


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