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The Metamorphosis
n.b. The following authored by Jonathan's housemate as an April Fool's JokeAs J-Funk awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic Raccoon. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back (raccoons are well known for wearing body armor) and when he lifted his head a little he could see his soft ( Read more... ) -
The first day of Spring Break is treating me well...
Yesterday - 4:30am Today: worked on my final paper, turned it in ( Read more... ) -
Spring is Sprung! / Epic Fail
Finally, gloriously done with school work.
And, more ominously, perhaps DONE with school ( Read more... ) -
News stories quips
Scanning CNN.com and the Yahoo! News sites, I stumbled across these gems yesterday and today:
[Democratic Party leaders] left the basement full of oily rags, matches and 5-year-olds, and now they are surprised that it's burning. -- Tom Foreman from CNN, on the brouhaha over Florida and Michigan ( Read more... ) -
Secrets and Lies
Just came back from a meeting of the Scav Cabal. For those few readers not up on our U of C lingo, I am lucky enough to serve as one of 12-15 Judges of the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, the largest such event in the world and one of UChicago's proudest traditions. Besides judging the efforts of roughly eight teams over four days each year ( Read more... ) -
Updates from the Northern Front
The Mayhouse service auction was last night. By definition, no one here at Millikab lives in May House anymore, but a good number of us trooped out there to offer up our services to raise money for our old home. My item went for the highest amount: two first-years paid $110 (!) for me to show them the sights on campus that no one else knows. The ( Read more... ) -
Interrupting your regularly scheduled blogcast...
As you may surmise from my infrequent appearance on this page, grad school has kept me busy ( Read more... ) -
Particularly boneheaded statistics: coming to a news article near you!
In a few short hours I'll be on a plane back to Tallahassee. I'm up packing tonight, but thought I'd share a distressingly confused CNN new article with you before I go ( Read more... ) -
Things are looking bleak.
I've got a substantive but largely uncheery update. I'm sitting here in what can be best described as a European hostel abutting Seattle's University of Washington, in the middle of a three-day Aikido Kokikai seminar. This fall camp has been tremendous, and you should ask me to tell you about it -- some other time ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday morning, about 6:35am, I had something of a catharsis. For the past week or two I had been catching 1-3 hours of sleep most schoolnights, effectively turning me into a zombie. This time I had been up all night working on two statistics problem sets, and hadn't taken a break in a few hours ( Read more... )