There is an 8-pack of Duracell AA batteries on my desk right now, unopened, most of them destined for the controllers of our Wii. Duracell AA Ultra Advanced, which means they will apparently last 30% longer and which also means they come with that handy "Powercheck" press test that shows you how much juice remains in the battery ( Read more... )

I went to the dictionary earlier.

I wanted to be careful about the size of this statement. I needed to know if it was possible to have multiple banes. If I was about to refer to something as a bane of my existence I wanted to be sure that it would not preclude me from having other banes at other points of my life, should the need arise to name ( Read more... )

Speaking of education and frustration; hell of an evening with the ASM kids tonight. One girl actually quit over what seemed to be her inability to tolerate any longer the bullshit of some of the other students in the program ( Read more... )

There is no interview process for the MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen at Northwestern. I didn't miss it, as there was nothing to miss ( Read more... )

For anybody curious about the current state of the situation I described in this post, the following has happened ( Read more... )

It would be nice, for once, to enjoy the thaw ( Read more... )

Nineteen-twenty Campus Drive, Evanston, Illinois, is a building located in the center of a yard surrounded by other buildings, a good distance away from any sort of actual "drive," next to a section of winding sidewalk that goes past an Escheresque library building and what is, for now, a frozen-over lake. There are six or seven different paths you ( Read more... )

Oh. Oh I get it now. Let me make sure I have this straight, okay ( Read more... )

The short answer would be, "It's like a sketch Franz Kafka never wrote for Monty Python's Flying Circus. It's called Tinned Kipper Shop."

And when you ask me to elaborate on that answer, I'd say, "It's like this..."

( The Long Answer )

My unemployment certification cannot be processed correctly until I call IDES and speak to the person that TeleServe tells me to contact ( Read more... )