Prosaic Paradise

Jack & I have been sharing an emusic account for over a year now. I’ve downloaded nearly 500 songs and while I haven’t been in love with everything, I’ve found a whole bunch of stuff I wouldn’t have found otherwise. (Thanks to The Abstract Factory for this instruction on how to browse the catalog before […]

I’ve been alternating between studying and being a total lump all day. 1 hour studying, 1 hour being a total lump. See how the unstructured time is doing me no favors? In part it’s that I’m not feeling very organized; I need a sequential approach. I have 2 large units of information to review some […]

This isn’t one of those “such-and-so important thing happened” posts. Keeps with the theme of the ordinary that I aimed for when I created this blog. Apparently I was watching Peter Tork do a cameo on Wings (which I guarantee I heard about on alt.music.monkees) and going to SciCon. I mean, between Sociological Theory (Dr. […]

Only a day went by before a potentially good biodegradable pen came onto my radar! Over at the Good Pens blog we have a review of the Pilot V Corn. Now, I am not sure where I could find one of these pups, but if I find out I will let you know. Last night […]

This is one of those pleasures that you can only get through hard work: the spent pen. Even if you have simply been doodling away abstractly that is still, to my mind, a form of creative work. Since nowadays many of us don’t write all that much, seeing the ink run out can be a […]

I had a post-election hangover this morning. Not from drinking, although I did feel celebratory. I was just so wound up & emotional. I’d wept, like alot of people. I woke up with a migraine of democracy. I dreamed about old… friends and a weird old haunted house. And decided to call in sick the […]

Jack and I went together this morning to vote. My work is pretty permissive about time and he works from home so often, it was nice to be able to go with him and hang in line. I thought that I would ensure short lines by waiting until mid-day but I was very wrong. The […]

…with very little effort. I feel a little guilty about winning a prize with a costume that took mostly shopping legwork, enthusiastic friends, and my native taste in glasses. Another impression: I had not clued in to how hot people think Velma is/was. I should have worked harder on my Velma voice, also. I will […]

We did get a new professor last week. I think he got a taste of why we can’t keep a professor… we all spent a good hour hashing out the situation. Whiners whined, and I got called out as some kind of jackass, once I tried to get things straight. I am holding out a […]

This is the first and maybe last post in a (non?) series I will call Fun For Anal-Retentives. That reminds me; I should write about my renewal of faith in psychoanalysis (if not Freudian) but I’ll save it. Particularly since this month is NaBloPoMo and without doubt by next week I will be stretching to […]