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Games, part one of four

27-May-06

This is the first of a four-part series discussing my favorite PC games. As a Mac user, I rarely get to play games anymore, but for a large portion of my childhood and young adult life, they were my preferred source of entertainment. This list was not compiled via some rigorous computational method, nor did [...]

Reasons for Being

22-May-06

Why in the world do you have foam wands and a blow-up pool mattress in the middle of your living room?
“I go swimming.”
Not that often.
“My niece was here last week.”
And she needed the foam noodle handy at all times?
“Well, no…”
Did you guys fight?
“What?”
Fight. That’s what foam noodles are for.
“No they’re not! I use them for [...]

Again

15-May-06

I’m a bit out of practice with this. Please pardon my dust.
Two weeks ago, my first academic year of graduate school ended when I submitted the last of three final papers. After working continuously for nearly 10 days writing, editing and rewriting, thinking the entire time of everything else I would have rather been doing, [...]

This is how we do

02-Mar-06

We sit right by the orchestra

symphony center

with friends…

Negotiations

14-Feb-06

“He’s got it for her so bad, though. Or at least, we know that, but we haven’t told her yet.”
Surely she can’t be that ignorant of this.
“No, she’d totally freak out if we told her.”
They’re going out to dinner and a movie on Valentine’s Day.
“It’s just dinner!”
It never ceases to amaze me, how women [...]