I’m not expecting any extravagant gifts this year, but I just wanted to throw out that my Amazon wish list is up to date, that I am really excited about the Nintendo Wii, and that I have 48 jars of spices in boxes in my room, and that it might be nice to have them [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Gotcha
22Nov06Google has recently improved their book search so that you can read more easily… dragging pages around, zooming in and out, and such. To try the new features out, I went to books.google.com and searched for “cuisine” and clicked the first book in the results.
Go ahead, click the link. Browse through a the [...]
Twins
19Nov06I am walking home from Chipotle tonight, belly distended and rather happy. As I dart around the bus stop on 5th and University, a muscular bald man who looks like he may have just been released from prison yells something unintelligible in my direction while crossing the street towards me.
I glance back and assume [...]
No, seriously
18Nov06Last week I posted a blog entry about what I felt was sexist language coming from our president. My friend Matt Henry recently posted a response suggesting that watching peoples’ choice of nouns and pronouns carefully is going overboard. If I understand correctly, he’s positing that the fact that Bush has at least [...]
Seminars and Discussion
16Nov06I sit and class and listen to the “discussion”, which is really more like a set of interlaced speeches. One person gives a short speech, and then another chimes in on another subject, and then a third, and so it goes, for ten minutes, or fifty, until everyone has said their piece, is thoroughly [...]
Sexism
09Nov06According to our president, “The secretary of defense must be a man of vision who can see threats still over the horizon and prepare our nation to meet them. Bob Gates is the right man to meet both of these critical challenges.”
It might not be his overt intention to disenfranchise women, but it’s obvious that [...]
Remembering to live
07Nov06Sountrack for this entry: Jesus the Mexican Boy by Iron and Wine.
I think everyone enjoyed the party. I was really excited that a bunch of new Hillcrest friends (Brian, Elizabeth, and Grant) made it. Matthew from the Women’s Center was a no show, and I haven’t heard from him in a while, so [...]
State
04Nov06I’m sitting on the couch I built (in the IKEA sense of the word) last night. It’s dusk, and the sky out the window is in that vague, calming state between blue and overcast. Nina Simone is singing on the radio… “What good does it do if I ain’t got you?” I’ve [...]
