I just spent a startlingly large amount of money at IKEA ( Read more... )

I'm in Philly until Sunday night, mostly being eaten by Swat's alumni weekend.  Jillian and Lydia have been kind and gracious enough to put me up on their couch until then.  As luck would have it, I missed Noda by about 12 hours; he's out in Vegas again.  If you're in the area and not going to alumni weekend for some reason but want to hang out, ( Read more... )

In the exciting world that is my life, I learned something new today ( Read more... )

I went to Urgent Care today since my arm is still experimenting with the fine art of interpretive dance without my permission ( Read more... )

In the semi-tradition of years past, I am hereby alerting all readers that my birthdays are upcoming. During these time one is traditionally thought to be imbued with more spiritual pull than normal, so one's blessings carry extra weight ( Read more... )

At about 8:00 AM yesterday, my mother got a phone call from my [great] Auntie Etta ( Read more... )

I rarely post good news since I often forget to post in the excitement of calling every person I know to tell them ( Read more... )

It seems that now that I can post polls, tons of people answer them, including people who I've never heard of ( Read more... )

I expected two of my professors to agree to my request for an extension. But my third prof is the one who didn't seem to care about my academic performance at all. Somehow, over the course of a few days, my opinion of her was changed completely. First she gave me an extension after I'd said I'd have the paper done in time, no sweat, and then ( Read more... )

1 A psalm of thanksgiving, call out to Hashem, everyone on earth ( Read more... )