Tomorrow morning (meaning about 12 hours from now, at 12:01 AM ( Read more... )

Since we've been having so much bizarre weather lately, it's become almost a cliche to predict the coming of armageddon in the near future (which is pretty weird when you think about it), but on the way home from my LAST CLASS OF THE SEMESTER today, the snow/hail/wind was falling/falling/blowing so hard I could barely make it from building to ( Read more... )

So the paper is done.  And just as I was preparing for an enjoyable Thanksgiving break to begin, I was struck with terrible news.  It seems that Sam, three-time winner of the World's Ugliest Dog competition has died at the age of 14.

This is terrible news not because I had an significant emotional connection with the dog and felt a great sense of ( Read more... )

Last night--or more accurately, this morning--I experienced a minor catastrophe.  My blindfold was missing.  I couldn't find it anywhere.  I looked under the bed, on the bed... it seemed like everywhere.  Finally, I went to bed without my blindfold.  Mistake.  Although it was dark enough at the time to get to sleep, I was awakened as early as 8:30 ( Read more... )

It's 1:29 AM, and rather than do what I would be doing were I the sort ( Read more... )

I recently remembered an experiment that I tried once... probably in ( Read more... )

For the past three years, October has been a strange month for New ( Read more... )

Yes, I am at "work" right now, where I get paid seemingly for just keeping the seat in front of the computer warm. There's only so much consecutive web-surfing one can do before it starts to feel like you've seen the whole internet, so, I suppose I'll make my own modest contribution to the "information super-highway," as it was once in style to ( Read more... )

Greetings. Sophomore year of college is going really well thus far. I like my classes, my schedule, the dorm... it's a good situation overall. I've got two part time jobs going. One is the job I had last year as a receptionist in the Sociology Department. The other is a job my sister got me working at the same company she does. The company is ( Read more... )

With about two and half months done with one month to go... it's really been a sweet summer. Of course, it's had its ups and downs, but the downs really were pretty up as far as downs go ( Read more... )