I love Karl Pilkington.

I don't think I will be inviting the window men to my wedding. The ringleader entered the house after a three (or more) hour lunch and used the toilet sans-permission. His peeing was so loud I was convinced he had "done an Andrea" and left the door open. I stayed in my room. While installing the window, his Cro-Magnon sidekick wondered why the ( Read more... )

This morning my mother backed our silver Hyundai Santa Fe into a snow bank, and then, when she tried to go forward, one of the front wheels was stuck on a patch of black ice, unable to grip to the pavement. She told me to go out in the snow and push the car. I thought for a moment of reminding her that I was wearing my still relatively new and, as ( Read more... )

Look, guys I hate to be a downer and everything, and you may or may not have heard this, but there was kind of like umm this war? or something? in Iraq. The details are unclear, I'm not really sure if it is still going or if it has ended because I mean, fuck, they voted, right? Well, I know there at least was a war at one point, and people died. ( Read more... )

So the news even filtered down here to North Carolina. The Westford Academy Football Team had the courage to finally "reverse the curse" and "win one for the gipper" against Acton-Boxborough on Thanksgiving Day. And Charles Paddock was the quarterback general, making several key plays and executing them with perfection, including a QB sneak on ( Read more... )

I think I have figured out why my conversational skills have not won me many friends at Marshalls:

Store is very busy.
Associate #1: Man, is it crazy today!
Me: Not as crazy as it is in Amman, Jordan.

:-/

I guess I was not awake enough to see that our car had crossed into the opposite lane.

For the first time in a great while, I feel awake. Like truly, absolutely awake.

I find I write my best college essays while sitting only in underpants. The ideas flow much more freely.

This torrential flood is God punishing me for watching Chairman of the Board last night.