Friday was take-it-easy day after the miraculously smooth wisdom tooth extraction.

By Saturday afternoon, taking-it-easy was getting really old.( Home_Improvements_Part_I:_The_Element_of_Surprise )

Northwestern defeates #16 Wisconsin! We're 8-4 on the season and bowl bound!

Oh yeah, and we took out Iowa. Please to be putting us in top 25? Kthx.

Back to my glamorous day of moving boxes.

*skips off singing the Alma Mater*

I thought I'd take a stylistic break from "Of Human Bondage" by reading Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer," and while it is undoubtedly a stylistic break, I'm nearing my saturation point on vaguely-arty Bohemian types living in squalor in Paris and moaning about the women they can't have. I'm only about 30 pages in, but I'm also a bit annoyed by the ( Read more... )

Handel's "Theodora" was beautifully sung and played on Saturday evening - not for nothing did Handel consider it his finest piece. However, the plot is pretty silly ( Read more... )