I went out and was quite productive this afternoon. (Disclaimer: this is what I always say, but it's total crap. I'm never productive on weekends.)

Then I came home and lounged on my patio for hours, eating mini pizzas (so many mini pizzas) and reading The Sun Also Rises and Arrival City.

Arrival City is fascinating, and while I'm far from ( Read more... )

When I was in college I used to have a playlist of songs for those nights when I needed to stop procrastinating and write a paper. I don't remember what songs I used, other than a lot of shit by The Doors and Led Zeppelin. I think my roommate came home one night to find me dancing to Houses of the Holy and sticking post notes on every bit of wall I ( Read more... )

See, I always knew my education sucked. Did you know that there was (briefly) a planet between Mars and Jupiter? I didn't! I had absolutely no idea at all, and I took astronomy in college. Obviously this is the sort of thing we should have been told. Never mind all that crap about quarks and black holes, there was a planet between Mars and Jupiter. ( Read more... )