I've been out of college longer than I was in it ( Read more... )

The animals that live in the Galápagos Islands do not fear human beings. The first uninhabited island we visited, Genovesa, is a giant, partially-collapsed caldera filled with ocean water, and home to thousands of nazca and red-footed boobies, storm petrels, frigatebirds, Galápagos mockingbirds, Darwin finches of several stripes, short-eared owls, ( Read more... )

I am drunkzor and in the middles of an identiyst crises! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I hadn't elafet a good runek post in awhile. Is fun, no? Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Last night I dreamed that I played with a puppy and seduced George Washington.

What did YOU do last night?

Happy Ill-Natured Fairy Day!

(Oh Schwenk, you delightful genius, you.)

Here I am again, sleeping on an air mattress in a mostly-empty apartment whose lease runs out in 24 hours ( Read more... )

I'm finally watching a democratic debate. First off, I want to say how truly amazing it is to see a minority and a woman as the sole candidates at a debate. Which isn't to say that Edwards was not an incredibly viable candidate -- it's just so...unusual. Which is really wrong, in this day and age, if you think about it ( Read more... )

Monday was Dayne's birthday. So I took him out for sushi and to see Les Paul perform at the Iridium. For those who do not know of Les Paul, he is the legendary guitarist and inventor of, among other things, the solid body electric guitar and multitrack recording ( Read more... )

I wrote a ten-minute play last week, but only because it had to be postmarked for Louisville by November 1. I'm okay with the results, but you know, I could have been writing it all year instead of all half-a-week ( Read more... )

I have an inclination to read On the Road, since I've never read it and it's the 50th anniversary of publication. But I'm also worried about what it will do to me if I do read it.

David Brooks' op-ed about the hyper-professionalism of Western life at all ages neatly sums up what I've been raised to see as success -- education and more education ( Read more... )