I was in Beachwood today to see Dr. Warren.  I spent a few hours after that at Borders looking at books and reading.  I am going to break my bank if I keep going to bookstores.  I obtained Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Ada, or Ardour by Vladimir Nabokov, On Formally Undecidable Propositions Of Principia Mathematica And Related Systems by ( Read more... )

I'm starting to recognize this summer's regulars at Java Zone. You know, the people who sit for hours with their laptop, notepad, or book. The ones who appear to be waiting for someone that never arrives. Yeah, I know them.

And I do not know them. We never speak. We both sit there, letting the summer waste itself without changing. It's a ( Read more... )

My watch has stopped keeping time. It still moves, but not in accordance with anything resembling our metric of earth time. Upon noticing this, I briefly wondered if my watch were the only thing keeping what had been previously stipulated as "correct" time, and in fact the passage of time had itself sped up. I figured that, if that were true, I ( Read more... )

My Hum 110 copy of The Illiad arrived in the mail yesterday.  I just finished Book 1 of it.  I've drawn the following conclusion about Hum 110:

I'm boned.

I mean, I like books and I can write coherently.  A required literature/humanities course should be no problem, right?  Wrong.  So wrong.  16 pages in and, as far as I can tell, it's still in Greek ( Read more... )

Teeth are out.  It's not even close to as bad as people say it is.  I walked in at 8:00 AM, walked out at 9:00 AM, never had to take a pain pill or nap, and I've only had to ice my cheeks a couple of times.  Either I have a higher tolerance for pain than I thought, or I'm unsually resiliant in medical matters (which I have proven to be on many ( Read more... )