As of yesterday afternoon, I'm safely arrived. On the Fourth of July I got to experience lots of security trauma, since I got picked for a random second search at the gate in Oakland, and …
That damn well better have been my last undergraduate final exam today. It went well. Adam and I made a celebratory dinner. Penne, Muir Glen sun-dried tomato sauce, avocado and carrot that I picked up …
I thought about the weblog fad that disturbed me when I tried it: googling your own first name in the "So-and-so is" phrase and posting sentences that come up. It strikes me that this is …
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who's a crazier and more popular sort of Russian Pat Buchanan, prefers "nationalism" to "internationalism" or "multinationalism": Nationalism is a separate apartment -- not a communal apartment or a dormitory. Living in this …
Not only did I get hit today on a search for "Political Science Comedy" (hey, did you hear the one about consociationalism?), but also I am apparently a war3z d00d.* Look, buddy, I'm the last …
I was trying to remember the quote from Hamlet about funeral meats and wedding tables, and I found this summary of Act I, Scene 2. Just a skim reminded me of how much I like …
As per the current weblog fad, I tried googling "Sumana is" -- the custom is to then reprint a selection of the resulting sentences in a weblog entry. But -- since I hardly ever run …
So I'm not the only one dumbing down my résumé. People hiring for secretarial positions don't want to hear about the technical writing internships. At least, as far as I can tell.
From the theme song to Seventh Heaven, a theme song which is even more replete in things to dislike than the Enterprise song: "Where do you go / When the world don't treat you right …
