So I applied for this job in March, and got an email in April that said "Oh, we're looking over the applications. We'll keep you posted!"

Yesterday, I received a second email. Four months later. (No, I didn't get the job. Alas.)

This is going to take forever, isn't it.

On everything but that which needs be done ( Read more... )

Dude. DUDE. ARIZONA BEAT IOWA. I was (re-)watching 'Bloody Monday' with Liz, and so after I'd commandeered the TV to watch the end of UW/ASU (BLOCKED PAT WHAT?!), I didn't know anything about what was happening in football until just now ( Read more... )

Quote of the week: [on why this kid's friend should get an award] "He has purified the fallen sword and inspired a crusade against the cold clutches of evil and destroyed an army of ancient evils and their tainted king ( Read more... )

My mom gets online and IMs me about half an hour ago, asking about some dude with whom I went to high school. I was curious why, then she told me to turn on the TV.

He's one of the dudes on the Bachelorette this season.

(And apparently he made the chick a scrapbook? WTF? I... don't even know what to say.)

ETA: He got a rose. Apparently ( Read more... )

So I was reading this surprisingly awesome article on Egyptian culture,* for part of my annotated bibliography**. One of the main points of the article was how the Westernized educated elite tried to formulate and distribute a new sort of essentially anti-Islamic-Arab culture (focusing on Pharaonic-Greco-Roman-Byzantine history), and faced ( Read more... )