It looks like Itsumi and I are almost moved in to our new home in Arkansas.  This apartment is amazing.  It's the best one I've ever had.  Lots of room, a back porch, and best of all: quiet.  I can hear birds sing instead of smokers' hacks outside my window.  Here are some things I've learned about my new home state and town:

1.  There's a small ( Read more... )

Moving procedures to Arkansas have commenced: my current apartment is slowly becoming an emptier shell with towers of books, dvd's, and cd's becoming towers of old Office Depot paper boxes. Itsumi and I found a nice little townhouse with old-er neighbors, thank God, where all this stuff will go some time in mid-July ( Read more... )

Facebook and I have always had a strained relationship. I remember when the thing came out I automatically had an aversion to it, either because of my natural apprehension of internet innovations, or because every perfume-y sorority girl I heard within earshot couldn't stop yipping and yapping about it. Facebook seems like a fairly narcissistic ( Read more... )

I used to think life came in waves with apexes of extreme activity and inactivity, but this week my life seems like a sharp beep on a cardiogram or a lie in a polygraph. I've had trouble remembering what day it is because this past week seems more like it was composed of groundbreaking events rather than days. First, there was the culmination of ( Read more... )

I tell no lie: I have one hell of a noisy neighbor whose druggy drunk friends congregate in front of my apartment. It's a little difficult to explain my apartment building's layout, but I'll try: my apartment is the first in a row of apartments that has an open balcony that faces the street; my neighbor's apartment faces the closed side of the ( Read more... )

I went on an impromptu impulse MP3 shopping spree last night on Amazon. Here's what's I's got's ( Read more... )

The above rhyming titles are in reference to the following three sections ( Read more... )

Maintenance returned this morning, and after some fancy wet-vac maneuvers, a giant bird nest complete with rotting bird and eggs was fished out of the exhaust vent. Problem solved ( Read more... )

Bob Dylan, you crazy ol' coot: http://www.ktla.com/landing_topstories/?Bob-Dylan-in-Trouble-with-Neighbors-Over=1&blockID=240209&feedID=1198Read more... )

Normally, I don't go for the histrionic CNN iReport videos, especially the ones that are job market-related, i.e. "I just spent three hours in a job fair line, and they didn't let me in!" But, the following one touched me for some reason...maybe because it's geared toward seniors, but it really applies to my current situation as well--in pajamas ( Read more... )