Simone and I just got tons of furniture for the house. We got a good deal of it from IKEA, which we went to yesterday ( Read more... )

Ahh! This time of year never gets old. I love it, love it, love it. I hope you're all having a very happy holiday season. Tonight, as is family tradition, we opened our Christmas presents. I got my mom the Planet Earth BBC miniseries on DVD, and I got my dad a really good kayak paddle (they're planning on getting a kayak soon - I suppose it would' ( Read more... )

Today's my birthday, and it's a nice one - 25! I've made it a quarter of a century, which I think is a nice, accomplished way of putting it. After this birthday, I don't have much to look forward to in terms of new social powers until I qualify for social security, but the one I did just unlock is pretty awesome. That's right - the ultimate test of ( Read more... )

Ahh, what an excellent weekend. Simone came down to visit me from Baltimore, which was great! Among many other fun activities, the two of us attended a birthday party at the house of my good friends Libby n' Steve - see, both me n' Libby's birthdays are coming up at the end of the month, so we decided to hold a joint party to celebrate! There were ( Read more... )

So, I design videogames for a living. Now, you'd think this on its own would make a typical day at work pretty hard to top, but today was even more awesome than usual. See, around 1:30, a coworker leaned over and informed me that there was to be an ice cream social in the lobby of the building in which I work, going from 2:00 to 4:00. Needless to ( Read more... )

The world seems so much more wonderful, all of a sudden. The air is crisper, the colors more vivid, and the computer fans more... um... whirry. Yes, dear friends, I have just come into possession of a brand-new, top-o'-the-line computer ( Read more... )

Just today, I got to thinking - I don't update this journal nearly as often as I used to! In fact, my post volume has dropped off significantly since leaving New College. This sort of thing has snuck up on me, and I'm not sure what to think of it. I'm pretty sure it's all due to the big routine of work, however. At New College, there were so many ( Read more... )

The DC trip was great fun. I arrived on Wednesday in the late afternoon, rode the Metro over to my hotel- actually, hang on a moment. Before I get any further into my trip, I have to tell you all that the Metro is freakin' fantastic. I love that thing. Public transportation rocks in DC. One of the coolest things I saw on the whole trip was in the ( Read more... )

So, ready to hear about some craziness? Well, the short version is that, around 1:00 PM tomorrow, I'll be leaving on a flight for Washington, D.C., where I will be singing in front of Congress ( Read more... )

Okay, I've just arrived back home after watching Grindhouse. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this movie, it's actually a rather unique little creation - two films, screened back-to-back, inspired by the classic 'grindhouse' movies of the past. The two films are Planet Terror, by Robert Rodriguez, and Death Proof, by Quentin Tarantino. They ( Read more... )