Hi there, Livejournal. Please note that it is after midnight on Saturday night / Sunday morning and I am sitting here at home, alone for all "intensive purposes"* (don't you hate it when people write that?), since Adam and Gus are sleeping -- Adam because he has to get up at 4 for work, and Gus because he is a dog. I'm just noting this for ( Read more... )

I'm having to write a bunch of legalese reading comprehension tests this week. They have to be done by tomorrow afternoon, and, without access to any law databases, I'm running desperately short on material to use for the reading passages. So I turned to the Internet and searched for "legal brief" to see what sort of public domain stuff would pop ( Read more... )

Last Thursday night through Friday morning, I discovered that pulling an all-nighter for work is a whole lot better than pulling an all-nighter for school. The coffee's fancier, there's overtime pay to be had, and your co-workers never expect you to say something like, "I really have been working on this project for 36 hours straight!" I really had ( Read more... )

There was a time that Adam and I were wandering in and out of Pottery Barn and the Lindt chocolate boutique and other yupptastic stores in Lenox Mall. I happened to hear the laryngitic wailing of Chris Martin on "Speed of Sound" playing in several different stores, and so I theorized to Adam, "Someday, the word music will be replaced by the word ( Read more... )