Let's just real quick tally up why I love my apartment ( Read more... )

Seriously Macalester. Learn how to protest.

I'm going to fight all of my common sense and do Nano again this year. Who has plot ideas for me?

It's official. I know why my clothes wont dry. The wash cycle is longer than the dry by a few minutes. The full drying cycle lasts only 35 minutes. I had a hard enough time getting things to dry in 45 minutes in the dorms, but 35? That's just absurd ( Read more... )

My mother is either really impressive or really creepy. I got a frantic call from her asking if I was alive. Now I don't normally drop dead, so I figured something had to be up. Sure enough she starts going on about a bridge collapsing out here and asks me why I didn't call yet ( Read more... )

I got a $10 tip at the hardware store today for assembling a fan.

My brother got a police report for the accident today. Apparently he didn't remember that night so well. He is charged with a DUI, so that's bad news for him. The story gets really great though once you get down to the details. Apparently after crashing into a telephone pole in his car, he got out and ran on foot straight into another telephone ( Read more... )

Ok ok, so today might be the best day ever. I went to work early and actually had things to do, so when I was done with that at 2:30ish. Then I went to Har Mar to meet hedgehogs! Apparently I could get one with everything I need for a fairly reasonable price. I was playing with them, and they're prickly little fucks. I mean, I guess I knew that but ( Read more... )

I just figured out why kids like me and learn from me. I treat them like equals, because throughout most of my teaching, they have been. I started learning astronomy at 11, and I felt like a grasped a ton of it then. Why shouldn't a 6 year old get it too? I wasn't a particularly bright 11 year old - just a motivated one.

International Sidewalk Astronomy Night appears to have gone really well. Everyone who has e-mailed me back said they had a great time and the lowest turn out I've seen was 30 people and even that isn't all that bad. Some had as many as 300+ people show up. It's really impressive to me that we made an event this big with a staff that is so small. I ( Read more... )