The past week:
Thursday: Boulder to work with Meghan - turns out half of the department was there. Farmers market was okay. Met up with multiple incoming students late night.
Friday: Got a titch of work done, went to Spin, visited apartments with Kris & magpiesd. Got one landlord to call me "Uncle Neil" and another to promise me, er, "whatever I wanted" in ( Read more... )

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... )

If you ever want to get me confused & lost, put me in one of the Simon School buildings. Yikes.

Staircases that are backless and/or have transparent platforms? Really scare me. I know of at least 3: The Rakow Library, the steps between B&L and Hoyt, and (new to me as of yesterday) CarlsonAll of a sudden, I've got lots of work on my plate. It's ( 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: )

Today, I:
-Woke up at 7:30 for the second day in a row.
-Wore a tie tack that I found in my office desk. Yes, you read that right. Most of us on the 4th floor had to clean out our desks last week. I thought it'd take me 5 minutes. It took me 2 hours. Besides the tie tack (which was mine & lost), I found floppy disks from the previous previous ( Read more... )

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

Ever have one of those days where it's just a series of odd things that all turn out fairly well, even though they didn't have to? Why, yes, I just did. ( Now I will tell you about it. )

I'm frustrated. Beyond frustrated, maybe angry, a bit confused.

I have lost two Christmas ornaments. Two unique, can't-put-a-price-on-love hand(?)made ornaments. One that gnothi_se_auton gave to me 2 Christmases back and one that I made at the studio in Corning just over a year go. They were on my shelf at the old apartment and I'm sure they made it over here, ( Read more... )

I just got back from the Chris Trapper show at Water Street Music Hall. And I have much to say, none of it particularly interesting for anybody but myself or other PushChrisTrapperStarfangeeks. Such is blog-life. Nobody came with me, probably for a variety of reasons. But that's fine. I have the damnedest time finding WSMH, even though I've been ( Read more... )

Summer of 2004, I moved 3 times. Somewhere along there, my PalmPilot disappeared. About once a week since, I've been frustrated by a lack of it (but not frustrated enough to spring for a new one ( Read more... )