ridetheworld posted this, and I feel like it's handy for some of you ( Read more... )

I want to make more entries that are memories from when I was younger, because I fear I'll lose them in my head as I age. Here are a bunch. (Here is a bunch ( Read more... )

I have finally placed in the recycling bin the contents of binders from the following classes:

• Minds, Brains & Computers, Fall 2001


• Classical Arabic Texts, Intersession 2002


• Syntax I, Spring 2002


• Intro to Natural Language Semantics, Fall 2002


• Language and Thought, Fall 2002

I just got news from davelogredux (who works for Congressman Patrick Murphy) that Colby Umbrell, Hopkins '04, died in Iraq. Colby lived down the hall from me freshman year. He played football, was a WaWa (Alpha Delta Phi) brother, and was a sweet moose of a man. He once spilled laundry detergent on my CD binder ( Read more... )

Just now I was catching up on some e-mails from today. I hit Check mail expecting only to see the copies of the messages I'd just sent. There was one from an address that I didn't recognize. The subject told me everything I needed to know: "In Memory of Jonathan Grassbaugh".

( The text of the e-mail was as follows: )

1. lizzybeth529 and I just stumbled upon my real backup plan. It's not to own a leftist patisserie. It's to have a talk show a la Jimmy Kimmel, who has oodles of "friends" (childhood and celeb, I suppose - never watched JKL much) to come on & hang out & be on TV. Doesn't that sound like fun? Oh, me. I remember looking forward to college and thinking of all ( Read more... )

And here I find myself at 2 AM. Typical for me these days, really ( Read more... )

The bones:
All this started for kaitl, whom I don't even know! Ah, strangers on the Internet, exchanging information. It was based on a discussion over in comments at jisalynn's entry from a few days ago. But this was far too big to post over there, and I also want it publicly archived in my journal. It's highly reminiscent of my "things to take to college" ( Read more... )

Friday night, I finally saw Borat, a look at the America of today. Yesterday, I saw Children of Men, a look at what may be America tomorrow.

Last night, I dreamt of blue cheese cheeseburgers.

Narcissist that I am, I have a Google Alert for my own name set up. It rarely pops up anything I don't know of, but the other night a blast from the past ( Read more... )

Some of you (likely <3 of you readers) might know one of my suitemates from my freshman year, Andy Lamperski. This post is just here to tell you that his web site is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Click every link(even pictures)! It shouldn't require more than 10-20 minutes to get through. Hysterical use of departmental webspace ( Read more... )