And it's not just because she has my name ( Read more... )

I went in for a pedicure and french manicure on Sunday. It was good times, generally speaking, and I was pleased with the manicure. It lasted until this morning, and I've caught myself admiring my nails several times in the last few days. There's something alluring about the artificial perfection of it. There are other things that I admire this way ( Read more... )

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Colored my hair, watched Office Space, assembled the grill, did some laundry, pulled out the last of the greens and put in some beans and squash. Also, managed to return an exciting 10 serves in Wii Tennis training. My life so very full ( Read more... )

Some dude takes a trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky so you don't have to. Be sure to check out the whole set on Flickr.

So, after several days in Providence for Nick's five-year college reunion (HAH! fogie!) I am in Boston. I haven't seen nearly as many old things as I'd like, although I'm posting this from the back rooms of the Peabody museum at Harvard, so my standards are clearly too high ( Read more... )

Ladies, you'll never believe it- Charles Mudede feels your pain!!! At long last!! Now I'm not sure- Mssr. Mudede being the seminal philosopher of our times, he could take this revelation in many different directions. I posit that this means he will finally a.) stop posting pictures of naked ladies to the Slog, b.) stop writing about women in weird ( Read more... )

Velociraptors.
I do this with zombies. The place Nick and I live right now would be absolutely indefensible against zombies - damn picture windows. My old apartment on Broadway was better, but I don't know how long one can really hope to barricade a wooden door from the '40s against a hall full of the shambling undead.

So as of yesterday afternoon, I've been offered admission to the law schools at Seattle University and Lewis and Clark. I have to decline the one from Lewis and Clark, since I don't really intend to move to Portland if I can stay here; now it's just a matter of paying the deposits at Seattle U and waiting to hear back from the UW waitlist folks. ( ( Read more... )

1.) Establish relationship between character and object or abstract concept.
2.) Compare relationship between character and object or abstract concept to human relationship and/or sex.
3.) Have character mimic dynamics of human relationship and/or sex.
4.) Forget to add funny.
Lather, rinse, repeat.