Wire fans! You really need to watch 100 Greatest Wire Quotes in 10 Minutes. It doesn't hit every moment I would, but, holy shit, it makes me want to rewatch the whole series RIGHT NOW. It really is a fantastic show. I'm sorry, but I've become one of Those People. You really need to watch The Wire, you guys. But don't watch that video if you haven't ( Read more... )

I have given up on Wind and Fire, who once again went out to lunch without me, but the joke was on them since our final lunch was something other than sandwiches and wraps. We put a couple tables together and sat in a group that included Heart. And I sat across from the Know-It-All's pretty daughter, Gaia, and next to Captain Planet, who answered ( Read more... )

The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, is my default favorite book. I read it three times for Academic Decathlon and discovered something new each time. A Pale View of Hills, Ishiguro's first novel, bored the living crap out of me, and I had to force myself to finish. Yet what little I had heard about Never Let Me Go-that it was sci-fi ( Read more... )

It's the "25 Things" meme that's taken Facebook by storm! I feel that I must share them with you as well because you know me better. Or do you even know me at all?

( 25 Things, or: A Brief History of Polter-Cow )

Yesterday, I was explaining to a co-worker how I ended up in my current position. I reached the part where I walk into my academic advisor's office and tell her that I want to leave the doctoral program, the part I described as "one of those hardest things you ever do in life." And as I told her, I felt the tears beginning to well up as my body was ( Read more... )

As it is the season, and we were just discussing it on TWoP, I am going to post my graduation speech from high school. (Flashback: end of senior year, May 1999.) I was salutatorian (or, as my mom called it, "saledictorian ( Read more... )

Well lookee here, it's a meme. Or maybe it's 62 memes in one!

( Do the 62 boogaloo! )