Everyone's making big here's-an-update-on-my-life posts. Makes me feel guilty. After all, an unrecorded life is almost like one not lived, right? Yep. Let's see, I don't remember the last time I updated but I'm sure I was already at Yale and already writing too much about my research project. So, no Yale or research project. I'll be in Cali for 3.5 ( Read more... )

The day started with a coupla cups of coffee and me, precariously driving a 15-passenger van down a Connecticut highway, the air occasionally punctuated by gasps of fear from my poor classmates. Hey, what do you want from me, I drive a 2-door hatchback ( Read more... )

I think the time has come once again for me to throw my two cents into cyberspace. To watch it spin around, land hollowly on top of the other coins and be immediately covered by someone else's. That is, if there was a two-cent coin ( Read more... )

The inundation of pop culture after such a long break (thank you grad school) leaves me awash in confusion ( Read more... )

So I've been spending my vacation watching a ton of crappy TV (we're talking VH1, Top Chef, all kinds of reality television, the whole deal). Well, you know, a whole semester of the Ivy League followed by a few weeks of brainlessness. It makes sense to me ( Read more... )

I have to write 60 pages in three different papers, study for and take a final exam and an oral exam. All before I fly out early Tuesday morning ( Read more... )

I know we live in an age of exciting and rapidly improving technology but sometimes its sheer enthusiasm outstrips common sense.

For example, why is Jeopardy now in High Definition? What sort of special Jeopardy action needs to be captured with extra crispness?

I just purchased a 2007 Mayan Art calendar. It's a regular monthly wall calendar but I was persuaded to buy it because it's got tons of cool Mayan art and benefits a good organization. Along with the regular holidays it also marks important days in Guatemalan Maya history. A sampling ( Read more... )

Preface: I live very close to the Planned Parenthood around here. As a matter of fact, the only way to get to school is to walk right by it. Last Saturday morning, like a good student, I get on my bike, loaded up with books to go to the library and study ( Read more... )