Strangely irresistible

I’m not sure if it’s the narrator’s voice, the slightly vintage but also strangely anti-capitalist message, or that it’s for my namesake beer, but I find this ad clever and awesome:

By the way, I’m also finding the Animal Planet show Whale Wars equally irresistible. Apparently, there’s something about a bunch of [...]

Progress

Okay, so to prove that I’m not completely despondent and lolling about in my own pity, here’s photographic evidence that I’m marching bravely forward. This morning, I got up and poached my very first egg, courtesy of directions by the brilliant Smitten Kitchen. I toasted a slice of Acme sour batard*, plopped the egg on [...]

A post, just because

It’s Friday, and I’m whipped. I still don’t have anything interesting to say, except that I just read this post on Shapely Prose, and I laughed so loudly I’m afraid I disturbed my neighbors. Do yourselves a favor and read at least as far as the bit about the Care Bears.
And maybe, just maybe, if [...]

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People! How are you? I’m swell. And God does it just feel like I’ve been gone forever. I have so much to say, but so little time or energy to say it. The briefest version of an update goes like this: work is awesome, my place is almost unpacked, I’m one father shorter than I [...]

For the girls

To tide you over till I’m settled and have more to say, feast your senses upon this: Yogurt!

For the record

Okay, I am about to simultaneously complain about something petty and out myself as a musical Philistine. Brace yourselves, readers.
I’m sitting here packing up and listening to a mix of John Mayer songs. And, yes, I said John Mayer. Don’t you judge me. It’s poppy and melodic and occasionally serves as good background music. I [...]

Laps

This morning I got up way too early to meet my swimmer friend Sarah at the university pool. Despite a vague interest in swimming, I’d been avoiding this pool for nearly as long as I’ve lived here. That’s mainly because of the scary skinny girls and what they do to my self-esteem. But also because [...]

Bad news of the day

One of my courses this semester required me to do a hell of a lot of reading and talking about Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Which, as most of you hopefully know by now, accounts for a huge proportion of cervical cancer deaths in women. Also, thanks to the good (but evil pharmaceutical) people at Merck, [...]

Ratios

Sweet…
The Singles Map
I knew there was a reason I was moving progressively westward. And it was not, after all, grad school. Please note on the map: the big blue bubbles. Them are good odds, people.
And for the record, if one more person tells me that meeting the right guy is “just a numbers game,” I [...]

30-Minute Rule

I had dinner last night with a couple of friends who just happen to be married to each other. We ate a little sushi, slurped a little ice cream, and basically caught up on recent adventures. As it tends to do, conversation eventually turned to the state of my love life. I love this particle [...]