I would like to inform everyone that the Schmoo, who I originally thought were just a convenient construct thought up for the movie Lucky Number Slevin, are REAL.

That is today's public service announcement.

( In other news, I have discovered why flashlights are called flashlights. )

The milk around here (...I moved to New Jersey, for anyone who hasn't heard) has two expiration dates: one for New York City, and also a general one. I noticed the second one this morning while making breakfast. Since I couldn't think of any good reasons why milk would go bad faster in New York--the date is five days earlier--I went to that great ( Read more... )

So (have you noticed how many of my posts begin with "so"?), for graduation, my parents got me The Oxford English Dictionary of Etymology and the Compact Oxford English Dictionary. Both are most awesome when you're an English major. I've been really looking forward to getting both of them, and mentally collecting random words that I want to know ( Read more... )

One: Yes, I'm still alive.

Two: Whew. That was the week of busy-ness.

So, last week I spent pretty much all of my free time out of the house, on various errands or helping people out--the only evening I was even home was Friday, and someone ended up visiting me that evening. I went to a wedding shower, helped plan said shower (and spent most of ( Read more... )

My phone broke. Again.

Last July the hinge snapped--conveniently while I was having a conversation with someone about how I'd never had my phone break on me--and we brought it in, learned that that model had a history of screwed-up hinges, and got a replacement. Of the same model. This morning I opened the phone to turn it on, and the same hinge ( Read more... )

I will be graduating in a month. Squee.

I have yet to hear back from any of the jobs I've applied to, though. (We're up to thirteen applications, as of Friday.) Not so squee. But hey, even if I'm without a job by the time I graduate, I figure I can bum for a few months writing and selling art.

Despite the fact that I have somewhere around four papers ( Read more... )

On the way back from Breckenridge last Friday (went skiing again, 17 runs, w00t) I started watching road signs. And a fundamental question occurred to me, most vital to further life as we know it:

Why is it that the deer from the deer warning sign get to be inherently in motion, but the elk and mountain sheep are standing still? For some reason, ( Read more... )

I have a question about pork and ham: what's the difference? Is it a matter of where the meat came from on the pig? 'Cause there's a Christmas ham, but it's pork chops. I know people who like ham and not pork, too, so that implies either a difference in taste or quality of meat.

Plus, if there is a difference, does that mean that religions that are ( Read more... )

My latest Facebook conversation:

V: "Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?"
Translation: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (Roughly. Actually, it's really "gather timber," but close enough.)

Me: "Professores meus mihi dicunt ille marmota monax circa libras ( Read more... )

Today should happen more often. ;)

Got two tests back, and good scores all around. And I even finished my homework - before nine, to boot! I got home late, 'cause I had to go to a marketing experiment (required for the class), but I spent enough time sitting around that I finished most of my homework before I even walked in the door. I've discovered ( Read more... )