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I went on an impromptu bus trip to the American Museum of Natural History today. It was hosted by Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History and I didn't decide to go until yesterday am. Anyway, the bus left New Haven at 8am and by 9:30 we were parked outside the entrance to the Hayden Planetarium. We got supersaver tickets, with admission to all the ( Read more... )

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I could watch this all day.

Today my co-worker Marie-France showed me a YouTube video clip in which Paul Reubens had inserted himself into an episode of Turkish Star Trek. It was pretty funny, especially with Turkish Star Trek being heretofore unknown to me. So when I came home from work today, I Googled Turkish Star Trek  and discovered there was also a Turkish Star Wars and ( Read more... )

Just thinking about how long this must have taken to piece together is exhausting.  (100 hours? 100 days?) But it's fun knowing what the next number is going to be and waiting to see in what context it will be mentioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExqG6LdWHU

"First rule in roadside beet sales: put the most attractive beets on top. The ones that make you pull the car over and go: 'Wow. I need this beet right now.' Those are the money beets."

"Goat on chicken... Chicken on goat... Couple of chickens doing a goat, couple of pigs watching..."

"Beer me that CD."

I love my new job, but it's terrifying. I'm in way over my head. I'm not used to not knowing how to do things-I'm used to being the person people go to. I feel like a big phony, undeserving of the money they're giving me. I mean, I'm an entire salary grade above the other two techs, and one of them has been there fifteen years. She's all, "blah ( Read more... )

I hope you enjoyed your 70-degree weather yesterday, Chicago. I hope you enjoyed it.

Love,

New "Perpetually Overcast and under 50" Haven

My new favorite tv show is 30 Rock. I think Tina Fey is brilliant and funny and adorable and left-handed and I admit it, I have a huge girl crush on her. But also Alec Baldwin is fantastic and when he gets that sad look in his eyes I get a huge crush on him, too. And I'd forgotten that, many years ago (1988, so that'd be almost-- holy shit!-- 20 ( Read more... )