posted 2004/11/30 at 22:16
For those of you who don't read my diet log, I've become sick again, so with the end of the semester coming up and all of that, I feel totally fucked right now. You'll forgive me if I put off my third .org.4 column for a bit here (as well as my next Backwash column ...) until I can get shit straight.
posted 2004/11/28 at 23:41
Nothing quite like spending seven hours at the campus library to take the starch out of your day. And I'd be here even longer if they weren't about to close. I'll probably have more of these days coming up here in the near future, plus I'll have to make a trip to BGSU's library as well. Ah, the joys of being a grad student. Pity me. Please.
So yeah, first we have the Pistons and the Pacers brawling like hockey teams (sorry guys, but as much as we miss the Red Wings, keep the fisticuffs on the ice please), now all of a sudden the Browns and Bengals are scoring like basketball teams. What the?
posted 2004/11/24 at 22:51
Pepsi Blue now available in Japan
Joe, do you have a Paypal account, and how much is shipping from Japan to here?
posted at 16:00
I have about an hour left to go to UT and pick up my paycheque for the past two weeks if I don't want to wait until Monday to get it. The problem is that right now it's barely 37 degrees outside and there's a pretty hard rain going; it's supposed to switch over to snow by nightfall, our first of the season. I can think of a number of other reasons why I should go out today, but so help me, all I feel like doing is staying here at home.
Sigh. I suppose I should take a couple of days off here to rest anyway, because I'm really going to be in over my head trying to finish everything up for the end of the semester here. Yeah, I think I'll just be a lazy turd tonight. I'm entitled.
posted 2004/11/22 at 01:14
As I alluded to in my diet log, on Friday I finally picked up the XBox bundle pack, and made a trip all the way to Ann Arbor to get a controller converter so I could use my Cobalt Flux on my XBox, although that doesn't seem to be a 100% working solution at this point. I also picked up Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 (natch) and Midway Arcade Treasures 2. The latter brought back a lot of memories, as back at Antioch I played an awful lot of Mortal Kombat 2 (along with Tetris and the Twilight Zone pinball game), and I guess now I get to re-learn all the movesets and stuff, although from what I've played of it so far, I'm once again reminded of the lack of depth in strategy in the Mortal Kombat games. (Sorry, once a Street Fighter otaku, always a Street Fighter otaku.)
Anyway, things with Mark seem to be going well so far; I've even bought his Christmas gift already. There's talk that Mark and Heather may actually go to the courthouse to get married this week because of something involving Mark's ability to work here, but I guess that's not really in my realm of control. Whatever makes them happy, and I certainly have no qualms with Mark being my brother-in-law.
So yeah. Back to work with all this stuff I need to do for the end of the term ... ugh, there are times when I wonder if all this grad school stuff will be really worth it. And I'll have something for the .journal later this week to help conclude .org.4.
posted 2004/11/19 at 23:54
Ugh. Yeah, so this week has been totally crazy. Mark flew over here on Wednesday, and between getting the house straightened up, and a real mess-up with the Composition Website on Tuesday, I just got totally frazzled. I actually took a mental health day on Thursday, and skipped class. Yeah.
More updates tomorrow. In the meantime, will someone please respond to the thing below? You all can't be that clueless about the music I like.
posted 2004/11/13 at 15:36
I did this originally as a Friends Only post on my diet log a couple of weeks ago, but it got no responses, so I'll post it here and see what happens.
Below are excerpted lyrics from ten songs I like a lot. Your duty is to name both the title of the song as well as who sings it without consulting any search engines. They're ranked roughly from easiest to hardest according to my opinion. Reply in the .forum (in this thread) with any of them you can answer, and if you can't figure out any of them, reply anyway and tell me why you have such shitty taste in music. :P
1. If my heart is soaking wet, boy your boots can leave a mess.
2. Leave me now, return tonight/the tide will show you the way.
3. You're always waiting on the tide, it's time to decide.
4. You can be Henry Miller and I'll be Anais Nin.
5. I want to be just like Tori Spelling, with a car like hers and a dad like hers.
6. Through this new frame of mind a thousand flowers could bloom/move over and give us some room.
7. This one is scrawny and looks like me/'cuz it's dirty and I'm so dirty too.
8. Every woman has an itch, and every good girl secretly wants to switch.
9. In the morning, the boy wakes up ... picks up a sledgehammer ... starts hurting back.
10. It's a classic, the kids'll be screaming for more/it's a brand-new sugar-coated corporate whore.
You have until next Saturday to answer. Get cracking.
posted 2004/11/11 at 20:49
Happy fourth anniversary, .org. And to that end ...
New in the .journal: .org.4 part 2: A Tribute to Chad Dupree. Just do me a favour, if you read it then print it out to read it later, because I have a feeling my bandwidth is about to go through the roof.
posted 2004/11/08 at 16:35
Mark (my future brother-in-law in case you forgot) finally got his Visa, and should be back in the states sometime in the next week or two. I'm glad to have finally gotten that out of the way, although given that he'll be staying with us indefinitely from that point forward, I worry about the house getting really super-crowded. Granted, this wasn't too much of a problem the couple of times he visited us earlier, and I definitely like Mark a lot, but I've never really had to deal with an "addition to the family" like this before.
posted 2004/11/07 at 19:50
From an AP article on the Bengals' victory over the Cowboys today: "For the first time in franchise history, the Bengals came out in gaudy orange jerseys reminiscent of the XFL."
You wanna talk gaudy uniforms?
posted 2004/11/05 at 04:05
You probably never thought you'd read these words on here again ...
New in the .journal: .org.4 part 1: the return of the .org mailbag. Yes, your questions, my answers, just like every year. And like I say in there, if you want to ask other stuff, there's always the .forum; the few of us who still post there every month or two could use some company.
posted 2004/11/04 at 01:54
Holy crap.
This cold is still kicking my ass. Remember how I said my classes were meeting online on Tuesday? About five minutes into the first class, I fell asleep (because of space considerations in my room, my bed doubles as my computer chair), and woke up with Kerry having about a 77-67 lead in the Electoral College. Oops. I'm still faring too poorly to go into classes now; I'm sleeping way too much, my throat is killing me and I'm going into these awful coughing jags that are just taking the life out of me. I shouldn't be missing these many classes now that I'm in grad school (the three years of my undergraduate career at UT I only took one sick day), but I'm in classes with TAs now and if I get them sick, they not only miss classes but their students do as well.
Oh, and how about that election, huh? I think when I look for schools to get my doctorate at, I'll stick to Canada and England.
Evan Coyne Maloney -- the Maloney who inspired maloneysbaloney.org -- actually e-mailed me last week. He seems a relatively nice chap, but I don't even want to think about responding to him until I can think straight.
Finally, I know I said the .org mailbag would get published today, but I'm nodding off here already (I've only been up for about three hours), so I may put that off for a day or two. Next week, though, I'm doing my tribute to Chad Dupree, and you won't want to miss that. Most of you probably won't be able to miss it, if you know what I mean.
posted 2004/11/02 at 13:35
Yep, I'm sick all right. And unlike over the summer, I'm actually insured right now so I was able to go see the doctor just now. It figures that I'd have this huge setback right when I was noticing a definite jump in my DDR skills, but hopefully it won't take me as long to get rid of this infection as it did over the summer. This has also affected .org.4, as I'm now going to be unable to answer one of the questions asked to me earlier. Oh well; thankfully all my classes today are meeting online, so I won't miss anything.
Oh, and I did go vote on my way back from the doctor, and yes, I did vote for David Cobb. Peroutka and Badnarik both got on the Ohio ballot, but Nader and Cobb had to go the write-in route. I fucking hate this state.
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