Entries from May 2009

May 27, 2009

Check Out My New, Much Cooler, Spacebook Profile

I am re-doing my Spacebook profile (thanks Paul for the name of my new site):
Movies:  Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, anything smart and prestigious and subtitled. 
TV shows:  I really don’t waste time with television, that is for lesser humans.
Books:  I have read all the classics twice.  My favorites are Ulysses, Middlemarch and War and Peace.  [...]

May 15, 2009

What Do You Mean?

Things people say confuse me.
“I can’t do blank to save my life.” Usually it will be something mundane like “do math” or “make pancakes,” and when people say it I always imagine a scene in which a scruffy, pissed off guy waves a gun at someone’s head while the two of them are standing in [...]

May 12, 2009

Furlough

Furlough days, furlough days, dear old forced unpaid days, how we love our furlough days…
Really, these unpaid days aren’t so bad, aside from that whole not getting paid thing. Days like this remind me how to do nothing in particular. My dad calls it putzing. Yesterday I did dishes, blew up a hippity hop, made [...]

May 2, 2009

I Wanna Quit the Gym!

You remember that Friends episode, the one where Chandler tries to quit the gym, and he just can’t do it?  Ross tries to help him, and they suck him in too.  That is my lament right now, “I wanna quit the gym…”
 I won’t say the name of my gym, because last time I used specific [...]