i think people are in two camps on curling. it's awesome, or it's bullshit. i don't feel like i've talked to many people who are in the middle, or indifferent towards curling ( Read more... )

listening to sports columnists panning the olympics and pointing out how no one is watching is starting to drive me nuts. i have watched a huge amount of olympic coverage, which i realize is not what the average american is doing, but aside from while i'm at work, i pretty much have it on whenever i'm able ( Read more... )

at 3:30pm --
"they say they need it done by close of business today or sooner."
"yeah, well, my close of business is usually somewhere around 11:30pm, so i'll have it done by then, and if they don't like it..."

heard from disgruntled network admins in my office

did anyone watch the pairs figure skating last night? the last couple of the night, a chinese team, was going for the hardest move ever attempted or something, the dude was going to throw the girl into a quadruple somethingorother, except, it was aparently too hard, because she didn't make it and when she landed it looked like she broke her knee ( Read more... )

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2328544Read more... )

i was listening to the radio late sunday evening a couple weeks ago, and DC101 still does the new music market or whatever at that time, and i heard them play a song i think called "the river" by live. i was surprised, because live put out a "best of" album last year, and i had assumed that spelled the beginning of the end for my favorite band. ( Read more... )

hello real world. my name is jeremy. actually, i haven't even received my first paycheck, so maybe i can't say that yet. but i did sign up for employer sponsored life health dental and vision insurance, among other things, so that made me feel a little like an adult ( Read more... )

PENGUIN CALENDAR 2006!!!

to whom it may concern: i should be arriving in blacksburg around 9am on sunday morning, at which point i will likely shower, go to church, then come home and begin preparing myself for the steeler's wake. i mean game. i mean painful loss ( Read more... )

in the past, jeanette has called me "shithead" and "dipshit." i told her i wasn't accustomed to such language because my family did not allow any swearing when i was growing up. she assured me that it was used endearingly, because that's the sort of language her dad and brother used when she was growing up ( Read more... )