I think that I'm going to start calling it the Porn Pavilion, which sounds classier than Jiffy Lube Live.

It's reassuring to note that I was not the only one not thinking of cars.

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Yippee Hil! Awesome news on the dissertation thing! Now a little editing, some photoshop, and BAM! you have a completed, submitted, defended dissertation!

I happened to walk by the stand right when they started asking everybody, "Want a vegan brownie? Free?" Yum.

OK, I revise my "yum" from my previous post to "Holy shit this is the best brownie ever I want MORE."

Wait, where have I heard this before? huh, oh ya, "hey kid, want a hit? First dose is for freeeeee! c'mon, try it". Dude, your brownies are a GATEWAY DRUG!!! Quick, throw it out before the cops bust down your door.

Didn't Omnis buy one a little while back? Or at least look at them? I know he did a lot of research on them, Hil.

I was looking at the regular trikes. The recumbent ones use a different muscle group that I have no chance of getting anywhere with. As it was, I had a hard enough trouble on the regular trike for the 5 min test ride, and didn't get one. The recumbent ones are rather pricey, and well out of my budget. But ya can't help but look at them and go "dude! very cool!" Don't forget to get a lil orange flag, so cars can see you.

eta: No news from 2 bedroom place. Left an e-mail late yesterday, and a voicemail today. Friend has offered to video-tape visit the place for me. But need them to call me back... please!

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I happened to walk by the stand right when they started asking everybody, "Want a vegan brownie? Free?" Yum.

OK, I revise my "yum" from my previous post to "Holy shit this is the best brownie ever I want MORE."

We had vegan low fat cupcakes tonight that were amazing. A good friend made them.

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WANT!

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Wierd, little cat is making strange noises. When i came home, instead of his usual teeny musical "mrew" he let out a howl. Like, cats fighting outdoors howl, all the while looking at me with a totally normal expression on his cat face. Then when i went to pick him up he yowled at me again. I put him down and he yowled, then hissed at nothing. Like, open mouth show every tooth feral hiss at absolutely thin air. Then looked up at me again like there was nothing in the world wrong. An hour or so later and he's sitting in his usual spot, napping and looking utterly normal, but i'm worried that he's gonna open his mouth and yowl like he's about to attack a pack of hyenas. This is seriously wierd. I hope he hasn't just found his big kitty voice, because it worries me :(

eta: i have suspicions that this might have some relation to the dental floss he ate two days ago, and i really hope it works through soon because i do NOT want to make that trip to the vet. Neither does he.

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i have suspicions that this might have some relation to the dental floss he ate two days ago, and i really hope it works through soon because i do NOT want to make that trip to the vet. Neither does he.

If you don't have Laxatone hairball remedy ready to hand, a teaspoon or two of plain petroleum jelly works wonders for greasing up the works. However, it might be best to call the vet first, because if little cat is showing signs of distress, the dental floss might already be hitching up the doings. I'm kinda concerned, now that I think about it, because in the ordinary course of things, that should have passed through by now. I don't suppose you have made a close study of his efforts in the litter box?

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Cat~ma, erin.

Stuff I'd like to know: how come I feel the strong need to escape from any sort of political discussion, yet most of my academic papers are devoted to research of deeply-related subjects and burning potatos of political issues?

Signed,
She who carfully walks between the keyboard keys

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how come I feel the strong need to escape from any sort of political discussion, yet most of my academic papers are devoted to research of deeply-related subjects and burning potatos of political issues?

In writing your papers, the papers don't talk back to you. You don't have to worry what the papers think of you. You don't have to figure out how to live with the papers regardless of how they think of you. You don't have to worry that the papers can completely make life miserable for you if they get their way when they are wrong, wrong, wrong, at least not the way that people can. Maybe? I don't know.

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Maybe.

I'm just wondering how I've gone so fast from "oh no, I'm not even gonna try to handle with that burning potato" to "ohhh! Cool subject! Shiny!".

Maybe that's what theoretical writing can do to you. And if so, it should come with a warning on it. Because right now? I'm somewhat terrified of just typing the email of approving the topic of the future paper.

That's so the last year I'm doing anything with regarding to economics, so said the Shir.

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If I may request some job~ma for Tom? He has a phone interview with a company in New Orleans in about 15 minutes.

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