I am becoming more and more proud of my many English ancestors. Despite that stiff upper lip, that is one people you do not want to ever piss off. They fight like furies! And they cuss like sailors. It was for no little reason that the French called them the Goddams!

Oh, my God! I have a birthday coming up! I almost totally forgot in all the excitement around here.

One thing guaranteed to make me forget my birthday is picking up my books for the new semester. ALL 25 OF THEM! All but six are for one class. Going to be reading Tolstoy, Chekov, Hemingway, Carver and others, and it isn't a lit class, either. It's ( Read more... )

It looks like a bomb went off around here. Everyone's packing and moving.

The roomies are almost moved out. The house they're moving into is only a few miles away, so they've been taking stuff over for the past week. We won't move untl the first weekend in February, and we'll do it all at once.

Later today, I'll make my truck look like a bootlegger's ( Read more... )

Well, I just ordered a new laptop.

My two year old Dell is still running strong, after having a brain transplant (hard drive quit a month ago), but it's always been too sluggish to handle my 3D art very well. It has a video card built into the motherboard, and really, to handle 3D art, I need a dedicated gaming card. I don't do a lot of gaming, but ( Read more... )

Yes, today is a snowy day. It does snow in Texas occassionally. I had no idea! Until I moved here, my only images of Texas came from old western movies, which always showed the place as hot and dry. John Wayne lied to me! However, if it's going to be cold, at least it's pretty.

Trish is recovering from a nasty sinus infection. We have snow. We have ( Read more... )

I GOT THREE As!

So after twelve hours, I am holding a 4.0.

I seriously did not expect three As this semester. In two classes, I felt like I was in over my head. Either graduate school professors are more forgiving, or I really am a genius of hard work.

So, last night, we had a full moon, on the solstice with a total lunar eclipse. And just as the moon ( Read more... )

Okay. Most of you who know us, know that Trish and I are ... uh ... very erotic. But we now have more than that in common to keep us up late at night. We've become artists.

Trish has been working on a Naruto fanfic picture, and I've been walking her through the use of GIMP. Apparently, I'm a pretty good teacher because the finished product is ( Read more... )

The hard drive in my computer crashed.

I am probably looking at three Bs this semester, which is barely hanging on for grad school.

Which means my future is in serious debate.

BUT ...

In light of an old college friend of mine who was just diagnosed with leukemia, I ain't got no problems! The computer is fixed, thanks to my roommate who had an extra ( Read more... )

I really need to visit New England ( Read more... )

I could't help it. I had to look up the right jolly old elf.

So, the name Santa Claus is an Americanized form of Sinterklass, the Dutch name for Saint Nicholas (Sint N'Klass). He came to the United States via the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Early American folklorist Washington Irving heard about him from the descendants of the Dutch colonists and ( Read more... )