Archive for March, 2007
First, before I forget again, congrats to everyone who suggested cow/kine as the answer to the Car Talk puzzler I told you about a few weeks ago. Yay for people cleverer than me! Now on to new business.
One of the many frustrations of Tae’s high school career was that she kept recommending Babylon 5 to me, and I never jumped on the bandwagon — for a variety of reasons, none of them good.
It was after I started college that I actually gave it a chance. It was August (I forget which year) and I had several weeks at home after everyone else had gone back to school. The SciFi channel had Bab 5 in syndication, playing at ten or eleven every morning. Ironically, that summer I stepped right into the last episodes of season 4, but I suggest that it’s a tribute to the show (or to Tae’s judgement for how right the show is for me) that even the show’s worst season drew me in.
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Categories: movies, television
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Hello again! Get comfortable; this is a long one.
Phoenix was gorgeous, while Boston was cold, cold, cold two weeks ago. (We kept track. Phoenix: almost 70. Boston: 17. Etcetera.) Coming back to cold weather wasn’t too much of a wrench, though — last week we had some gorgeous weather, it almost felt like real spring! Meaning I went out Wednesday morning with NO hat, NO scarf, NO gloves! Fewer pieces to keep track of — I almost lost my hat on the subway a few weeks ago. I’d tucked it under my arm and it slipped out as I was leaving the subway station. Hit the cold air outside, missed it, and ran back. Lucky me, some wonderful person had picked it up and set it on top of a fire extinguisher! Nothing like starting the day with a scare! But I digress…
My first full day in Phoenix, we headed a little further south — Pug, me, brother C., and girlfriend A. — to spend the evening at Kitt Peak. Along the way we stopped at the Indian ruins at Casa Grande, as well as a Mexican place in Tucson that is notable for serving meat that they dry in what you might mistake for a birdhouse with mesh wire walls. Very tasty. We had so much good Mexican food last week.
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Categories: grad school, life in the big city, travel
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Set your favorite mp3 player wander randomly through every song in your collection. Pick your favorite lines from the first 20 songs that play. Post and let everyone guess the song and artist. And oh yeah…don’t use Google. Cheater.
So of course iTunes is bringing up some of the strangest things in my collection. But a few should be gimmes. Have fun!
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Categories: music
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I thought about not doing it this year, but I hate to break the trend. And one of these years, I might actually read this play to boot. But in the meantime…
Brutus:
Remember March, the Ides of March remember:
Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake?
What villain touch’d his body, that did stab,
And not for justice? What! shall one of us,
That struck the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers,–shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes
And sell the mighty space of our large honours
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.
- Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, IV iii
I hope this doesn’t bode ill for the phone interview I have set up for this evening. One of my profs has designed an assignment for which he wants us to interview an editor, so that’s what this is. Eep. From our correspondence, she seems very friendly, though. More on all that life stuff presently…
Categories: Shakespeare, grad school
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Happy Pi Day, folks!
I am full of stories that I will tell as soon as I stop scrambling to catch up from mostly ignoring school over spring break!
Categories: miscellany
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