So...after a week-long shut-down, the computer coughed, sputtered, and actually turned on without immediately freezing. I have the fucking INTERNET that I keep paying bills for. Amazing. Thought I'd post here, since this semi-miraculous sign of life will be followed by yet another week of complete internet blackout ( Read more... )

So...after almost four days of complete computer/internet blackout, my piece of shit computer has finally started working again inexplicably. Not that I'm bitter about spending a good part of that four days sitting in the department trying frantically to remember all the people I had to get in touch with at once so that no one would yell at me for ( Read more... )

Free cone day at Ben and Jerry's is April 25th-- pass it on!

Ironically, this is also the day of my next dentist's appointment. The gods, they are laughing...

What's lurking under my couch ( Read more... )

So. Life is getting calmer since the end of the big Boston trip. Good thing, because my head was about to explode. So now I'm just hanging out doing errands (taxes are paid! huge pile of not-entirely-my dishes are not washed, though) and a little work here and there. Spent forever online tonight looking for summer German classes only to ( Read more... )

So, this weekend I packed my bags and headed to Boston on the infamous chinatown bus for the Medieval Academy of America conference. Since last year in Miami, I worked out the two golden rules for these events (don't go to all or even most of the panels and freelance if your posse isn't doing what you want to do) I figured this year would be ( Read more... )

I would love to have many witty things to say or funny stories to tell, but I don't. At least not tonight. My life at this particular moment can be summed up with three indisputable facts.

1. I hate Mondays.

2. I love my (very cuddly) BF.

3. I am really very tired.

Das ist alles. Mehr weiss ich nicht.

It's been an unusually horrendous week here. In an effort to distract myself and stay sane, I've been hiding out in the gym. A lot. As a result, it feels like my entire body has been beaten with a tire iron from head to toe ( Read more... )

This is funny, and apparently I am a major geek in at least one area. No fair telling if you know which one. =P

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1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )