I have a new oven.

This is very nice; the old one was not fun for baking cookies as it's temperature tended to fluxuate.

Sadly, I'm going to college next year.

(All times are CST)

10:02 PM: Read the review of Shrek: The Musical on The New York Times website. Makes me very happy.

Tick-tock.

10:35 PM: Go to bed. I have no reason to stay up later and I'm tired.

Tick-tock.

11:48 PM: Not falling asleep. Read a chapter from David Carr's memoir The Night of the Gun. Try to fall back a sleep.

Tick-tock. ( Read more... )

Do you know how hard it is to find a copy of The New York Times in the city in Iowa that I reside?

Very.

Last night, I decided that I needed to buy a copy of the Waterloo Courier, because of something that you'll read about shortly, and a copy of the Sunday New York Times. Because I love The New York Times, or, as I joked to my mother, I needed ( Read more... )

My sister, a Christian and a Republican, had a discussion with one of her friends, a Christian and a conservative Republican, about gay marriage ( Read more... )

Yes, my father and I were live texting about the Macy's parade.

It started out by me saying that I wanted the three minutes I spent listening to "There is Nothing Like a Dame" back. I really tried to enjoy it. I really did.

I feel sorry for the cast of The Little Mermaid, because they had to perform in skimpy costumes in 30 degree weather. ( Read more... )

I truly love the names of roads in rural Wisconsin. Example: Lumber Mill Road. I would have blogged about this while on the road, but I forgot to find out how to do mobile posting ( Read more... )

When I'm writing dialogue, and one of the character's involved is drunk, it seems as though I'm phonetically writing a conversation with my German grandmother.

I go on to Safari tonight and look at the start page for Google. First thing out of my mouth is "That's a lovely corset on Taylor Swift".

I saw the Reduced Shakespeare Company tonight. It was awesome, especially because I worked backstage on a production of The Complete History of America (abridged).

And one of the company members was in Pushing Daisies. I'm not sure which episode and whom he was, I'm looking that up ( Read more... )

1). I can now get around Cedar Rapids without getting lost ( Read more... )