Cakescakescakescakes…

Matt and I, being the lazy shlubs that we are after about 7:30 p.m., have become quite familiar with the TLC/HGTV/Slice/Food Network program selection these days.  One of the shows that we stumbled upon and both really like is called Ace of Cakes.  It’s a ‘reality’ show that follows the everyday goings on at Charm [...]

I think I might be a grownup now…

Matt and I are officially moving once our lease at Shithole Apartments, aka Bedbug Haven is over.  My parents bought a house on Broadway, across from my old high school, that has a storefront business unit in the front, and a residence in the back.  It is, by definition, business in the front, party in [...]

Smacked With His Righteous Hand…

I awoke this morning and prepared to get a few errands done before heading to April’s place to help sandbag, as she lives on the Red River, which is rising dangerously close to her house.  I was greeted with this in my inbox:
Thanks to Karen for sending me this!
I can only find this hilarious.  If [...]

What Does a Trillion Dollars Look Like?

I’ve been trying to follow the recent AIG clusterfuck, and have been consistently amazed at the absolute irresponsibility and stupidity of the whole thing.  Providing their CEOs with billion dollar bonuses with the bailout money they just recieved from the U.S. government is not only wholely irresponsible, but fucking dumb as shit considering they cannot [...]

The Day for Offering Confectionery

My parents have often mentioned, if not full-out argued, that Valentine’s Day was created and perpetuated by Hallmark.  It’s a bogus holiday.  We don’t get a day off, and feel obligated to eat waxy chocolate (or buy the discount waxy chocolate at Shopper’s the day after, like me).  Wikipedia’s entry notes:
The day is most closely [...]

Glutton for Punishment

I’ve realized over the past few weeks that this course I’m teaching has essentially taken the place of my thesis: I had a couple of months off of anything academia-related, and come January I’m right back into assignments and research and writing, with a little grading and hand-wringing to top it all off.  I’ve been [...]

So, is it just me?

I was out for a run the other day after work, when I realized that for the past…I don’t know…10 years or so, I’ve constructed my whole thought process around my life goals and aspirations according to “when I’m older…”  I still think of myself as not yet grown up.  Not quite there yet.  When [...]

Three decades.

Monday was my parents’ 30th Wedding Anniversary.  Thirty goddamn years.
To celebrate, my brother and I took them out to dinner with Matt and Heather, my brother’s girlfriend.  They came over last night for a pre-dinner glass of wine, after which we went to Charisma, the local Indian restaurant, for a delicious meal.  After dinner we [...]

The end is nigh

I found out today that I have a thesis defense date scheduled.  September 8th.  This news, coupled with the first printing of my final draft (coming in at 106 pages, although lacking a conclusion and complete bibliography), has effectively cleared the smog and allowed me to see the LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!  [...]

An aside

It’s really distracting, and telling, to be typing on a laptop on a desk that is right underneath a giant mirror.  It’s distracting because I catch a glimpse of myself with my “concentrating” face every now and then, and realize that’s what other people see when I’m concentrating (read: I look constipated and/or like I could [...]