Last night I gave Camilla (my Italian flatmate) a little lesson in early US history. You know, the colonial days, the Revolution, expansion, the Civil War, and so on. She's reading Gone With the Wind, …
Now that I have a roommate, and we differ in our waking hours, and I use dialup to access the Internet, I've turned my modem volume down to zero. I wish I could continue listening …
I done took the CBEST. Oakland Technical High School featured quite a mix of young, old, male, female, and many ethnicities, many carrying two to five new-looking #2 pencils (which reminds me of the old …
I'm listening to Sixteen Scandals by the Capitol Steps. Wow, how very dated, and yet better, fresher, than when I first heard them. It's the reminiscence value. Value!
From Steve: "(Hypocritical? Sure, why not? All the cool kids are doing it!)" From Matt and Adam, over lunch: Matt: What does it take to become a taxi driver in this town, anyway? Do you …
As much as I've enjoyed this week, what with learning very challenging material both curricular and extra-, I'll be glad when the weekend arrives. I love the fact that it always does, right on time. …
Last night's Enterprise had ten minutes of slash fiction in it, only it wasn't fiction. As Leonard said, "They're gonna have to move this to cable!" The West Wing had its repetition-motif all during the …
I'm done with homework for tomorrow; yay! (After lunch, Adam the Linguist corrected my transciptions into IPA -- the only exercise with which I had trouble in the Linguistics homework.) TV, here I come! Last …
Just today, I acted as though I was telling Adam the function of the OR operator so that I could cause a smile on the face of my passing Logic TA (the one who looks …
"Oh please god no. Vampire fairies? Can we add a little goose in an apron, and carrying a Confederate flag, and bundle ALL the varieties of kitsch into a single package?"
