Sigh. My flight to NYC is delayed two hours, though agatia's is as well, so it's not like she'll be waiting a ridiculously long time for me in the city ( Read more... )

Well, Howe seems to think I'm sufficently photogenic to include me on their main Alumni web page ( Read more... )

So I officially started my internship at Commissioner Suffredin's office this morning. It's only going to be two days a week, but it looks like it's going to be a fascinating experience. Commissioner Suffredin is one of the Cook County Commissioners - his is the 13th District, covering Rogers Park and West Rogers Park, Evanston, Skokie, Wilmette ( Read more... )

This should make agatia and geoblvd happy in particular: Arnold Schwarzenegger's approval rating in CA has dropped to 31%. His suppport even among Republicans is suffering - a rather weak 66% say they approve of the job he's doing. A lot of pundits are speculating that the special election he's pushed for so hard for this Fall will determine his political ( Read more... )

This was actually the "Bluff the Listener" segment on Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me this week, and the audience gasped in surprise when it turned out that Adam Felber wasn't bluffing. All I can say is, "ewhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/18/art. ( Read more... )

When I posted the link about the Oklahoma legislator that wanted to re-legalize cockfighting by putting little boxing gloves on the roosters, leahrosmertasaid that she really hates it when people in her state act like idiots. Well, Leah, I hate to break it to you, but ( Read more... )

Well, I couldn't get any takers for today, but jigsawjazz says she might be able to do Friday, so I'm going to plan to do this hopefully then. Since I'm pushing it back two days, is anyone interested in joining me then? Could I persuade mrvoid or leahrosmerta to call in sick then? Would kleine_hexe be able to swing a Friday trip? Does celeloriel think she might be able to duck her mother long ( Read more... )

Okay, the first person to identify what is wrong with this - and, more importantly, explain the reason for the discrepancy to me - gets a bright, shiny new nickel ( Read more... )

Having found an internship, and thus gotten tired of staring at my apartment walls and watching Star Trek on DVD while surfing for the purposes on indenturing myself, I've decided I'm going to enjoy my last few days of freedom before descending into the realm of wageslavedom (except, of course, without the wages). As such, I really want to get out ( Read more... )

Well, my plans for putting my brain into neutral for the summer apparently have to go on hold - I've finally got an internship lined up. A Loyola professor has said that I'm welcome to clerk for him at the IL State's Attorney's office if he doesn't find anything for me by Thursday ( Read more... )