Per my teaser post of last month, I am getting married in 12 days. Amelia, my fiancee (dys-fun-ctional.blogspot.com), is a fellow graduate student that I met while at Georgetown. She's here learning latin from the head of the pope's latin office, who, despite the mental image that has just formed, is an irreverent alcoholic from Milwaukee. I don' ( Read more... )

So despite best intentions of maintaining a live journal page, I appear to be failing miserably. You can tell this because if I was any good at this, you would probably know by now that ( Read more... )

So I should probably write a post about recent adventures -- seeing Dartmouth peeps in boston (excellent), the Massive Attack concert (literally the best seats in the house, but seriously, how can you tour without one of your lead singers), a NYC trip to see Spamalot (good, but not if you know the lines to the movie better than the actors), etc ( Read more... )

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So friends of mine in the bay area often host a practice thanksgiving dinner before hosting their in-laws for the real deal. They know cool people. I go skiing with their law school class in Tahoe and I end up in a hot tub with a 6'4" transgendered lawyer discussing how computers have changed the law practice. I go to faux-thanksgiving and I ( Read more... )

From today's reading selection:

"One can no longer find a natural beer in the towns, but instead such a thick murky drink that one might think Satan had invented it to smother human reason and drive people deeper into sin and vice" (Germany: 1660)

If I ever open a brewery, that's totally going on the label.

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I have a webpage.

I apparently have an opium poppy growing in my back yard. I didn't put it there, but then again, I didn't not put it there.

I have an orals date! I will know all of history by May 19th...