My sister is engaged to Ashkhan! I just found out this afternoon.

Commencing quarter-life crisis... now!

Attempts at internet dating: disappointing ( Read more... )

ABC's rejection of me is official. And yet I spent four hours watching Lost today.

So I applied for this ABC TV writing fellowship long, long ago (July). And when I opened up my e-mail this morning, there was a form "letter" notifying me of my rejection ( Read more... )

I have never needed a vacation sooooo much.  

I think deciding to stay in Chicago another year and then leave, however wise financially, was not a good plan emotionally. Really feel like it's too long to do nothing, but not long enough to make getting involved in arts/relationship/job stuff really worthwhile. 

 Feeling better now. I promise I'll actually post something substantive, now that Chandler has.

 Urgh... I just started reading this loathsome Newsweek article, which, while urging non-partisanship, flings out words such as liberal and libertarian as insults and then claims that the idea that torture doesn't work is but a "liberal shibboleth"!

I'm just sick and tired of all these self-identified "reasonable" men who think that America would be ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I said anything substantive. So, a brief recap post ( Read more... )

 Okay, I promise a substantive post soon-ish. But I wanted to put up this meme.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 37 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the ( Read more... )