have you ever limpingly finished a paper somewhere in the neighborhood of 24 hours before it was actually due and thought, "well, this is pretty rough, but i'll polish it up tomorrow," and then just turned it in right before the deadline without even really looking at it again? that's ... pretty much where i'm at right now, although i did spend 10 ( Read more... )

recently, i ( Read more... )

1. in general, i find leaving your cell phone ringer on while in the office to be just shy of leaving it on in a movie theater, but there is a guy in the cube row next to me who a) always leaves his ringer on and b) has that "you had a bad day" song as his ringtone. this is grounds for public execution, right? the line has to be drawn somewhere ( Read more... )

a. the third annual wretch thanksgiving for wretches (wretch thanksgiving for wretches III: back for more and now with a dozen additional bottles of wine) was, i think, a delightful success. once again, i managed to cook the turkey, and once again i turned the pan drippings into a nearly inedible gelatin-like gravy. the spectacularly odd assortment ( Read more... )

when i first learned that the coolidge corner theater was having a midnight boyband sing-a-long, my first thought was, "after wizard people, dear reader, the buffy the vampire slayer sing-a-long, the firefly complete series marathon and the r.kelly trapped in the closet sing-a-long, this is actually pretty inevitable ( Read more... )

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onthecontrary, imogenics and i kipped on the sidewalk in front of fenway for three and a half hours yesterday afternoon to get day-of release tickets to last night's sox game. the day-of release ticket set-up is actually pretty cool: you can start lining up five hours before the game, and then two hours before the game starts, they'll sell you any extra tickets they ( Read more... )

MIDTERMS!

i would say that i haven't talked to you guys since last thursday because i have been studying like a fiend, but that's a total lie, because, in actuality, i was watching baseball games and buying cherries at the haymarket and being instructed in the way and the light and the true love that is the US version of the the office and ( Read more... )

on thursday, i went out for drinks after work with co-workers n+k, where "after work" equals leaving the office a little after five and finally stumbling home just after midnight. although we did our requisite amount of bitter complaining about retarded workplace politics, we also spent a lot of time on our plans to be the cambridge mafia this fall ( Read more... )

a. yesterday morning, i woke up, and ( Read more... )