If you're not watching Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel, you should punch yourself in the ear. I recommend the lions hunting the elephant clip, though the videos available don't really do the show justice.

and i recently got my own office at the chicago school of psychology. it's very roomy, has soft lighting, and will soon include a full-sized refrigerator in which i will hide booze and body parts.

today also included the last of my rejection letters from grad school, so it seems i will be staying in chicago indefinitely.

i finally found out that i got a job at the chicago school of psychology. full-time, benefits AND a dress code.

so if you need any meetings coordinated, i'll be on the fourth floor next to patty's office. leave a message with my secretary if the door is closed.

so chris decided to move back to gr last week. one of the upsides to this turned out to be finding a new roommate. i posted an add on craigslist and the characters just started to pour into my inbox. among the serious contenders were ( Read more... )

"There are 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells in the human body. That means we are basically a means for bacteria to become mobile, to complete their life cycles and to procreate. We think they are living off us, but it is we who are living for them."
Dr. David Byrne, Phd in Life

this morning i was at the bus stop, already having a pretty shitty start to the day. i had volunteered to go into work early to help break down the set of a play that was closing upstairs, so it was somewheres around 6:00 and still dark. also, it was five below zero, not counting what must have been a crazy windchill factor (i don't care what slate ( Read more... )

i saw a really good episode of star trek today where Geordi gets abducted by this race of imbiciles who can't figure out how to make their warp drive work.


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new is my job. which isn't too bad. on wednesday i got paid to watch a pretty bad musical adaptation of "the three musketeers." i start fullish time on tuesday helping with high schools visiting the theatre to see "taming of the shrew ( Read more... )

i finally landed a decent job, albeit a temporary one, with chicago shakespeare. it means that instead of making phone calls asking people for money thirty hours a week, i'll be corralling groups of middle school kids and watching plays for thirty-six hours a week, and making significantly more doing it. thank jeebus chrize. i have arrived.

Do yourself a favor and watch this show on the food network. As I gather it, it's just this large jolly man going on an eating binge and talking about why all the food is great. So while he's going on this rant, his mouth is full or covered in food. It's as close as the food network has ever gotten to outright pornography.