Something to Say

Kevin, one of the roommates whose name I learned only after fours months of living together, left the apartment last week for a month-long trip to China. Kevin didn’t even tell me; I learned the information second-hand via Jae. I’ll be moved out by the time he returns, but there are no hard [...]

Sign Your Name

My Korean roommate wants to change his name to something a little more U.S.-sounding to placate everyone when he applies for jobs. Not that Jae-woo isn’t common here (Seattle, you know), but I can understand. There aren’t too many Jae-woos in U.S. popular culture. Something told me to suggest he change it [...]

Variety Pak

Everyone has crazy bus stories but today was something I had never heard before. Evidently, the horn on the bus was broken and so it would sound loudly, intermittently and often. It was hilarious to look at the faces of passing motorists who all probably wondered why the bus was honking at them. You know, [...]

Void Where Inhibited

Read the first three paragraphs in Morford’s new column and tell me you’re not hooked.
Teachers in high school writing classes across the country should use it as an example of style. And we’ll just ignore the run-on sentences.

Cafe Culture

I’ve been at the U-Village Starbucks almost every night this week (and it’ll probably remain that way through Thursday when the project is due…you know, if you feel like gazing upon an internet celebrity). It’s because with all of the libraries closing early during the summer, it’s the only place open 24 hours. Starbucks is [...]

She’s Multitalented

A caption from this Saturday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer reads:
“Oscar winner Jennifer Tilly takes a break on Thursday, the opening day of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Even if she loses, she’s already broken new ground as the first celeb to win one of the pro events leading up to the world championship, which [...]

Good With Children

If I ever needed any confirmation of my antisocial nature, it was demonstrated this afternoon. On the daily walk to the graduate library, a little kid with a skateboard and a dog on a leash approached me. The kid couldn’t have been older than 11 or 12. His dog was pretty big. [...]

Na-Na, Why Don’t You Get A Job?

Have you ever applied for a job that seems like a little bit more than you would like to take on? I threw my name in the ring for a couple of them back at home. The jobs are at Stanford and Berkeley so that means a ton of people applied for them. Also, the [...]

To Be Continued

Just like old times…
I’m upstairs in my Mom’s walk-in closet typing on the iMac. It’s nice to be back at home in the Haystack for the holiday weekend. It’ll be my last respite before the project is due and everything else that needs to be done for me to END SCHOOL FOREVER!! [...]

Standard Whining

I think it’s safe to say that recently Ice Climber has been in a creative sinkhole. Of course, many readers out there are just itching to say “Sh*t, this whole site is a creative sinkhole! What’s the URL for Dooce?” Hell, I don’t know. I took it off my links. [...]