voncookie | October 29, 2006
This posting from friend and fellow PhD student Tara’s website is priceless. It is exactly how I feel about Halloween, and I’d like to thank Tara for putting into words what I could only express as “Arrrrrgggh! I f-ing hate Halloween!!!!” Here’s the link.
voncookie | October 29, 2006
I’m not much for probing the internet for interesting material, but since I’ve been working harder to build a readership and in general become more tech-savvy, I’ve started exposing myself to more of the web than I have since I went hunting for taboo topics with my friend Sarah back at college in ’95 or [...]
voncookie | October 28, 2006
I love the end of Daylight Saving(s) Time!!! I look forward to it starting around September, when I start to yearn for all things autumnal, realizing that the end of DST is a harbinger of many good things—specifically, egg nog lattes originally from Starbucks exclusively, but now available at Joe-Random Coffee Shop Next Door (and [...]
voncookie | October 27, 2006
Question for the Concerned Public: When did I become such a geek? I had an interesting meeting on Wednesday, in which all of us Spanish 25 GSIs were supposed to bring our classroom materials that we had developed in a sort of share-fair environment, just to make sure we’re all (approximately) on the same page [...]
voncookie | October 27, 2006
Never thought you’d hear that from a lit-geek, I’m sure! I’m on this major tech binge right now—everything from learning how to rework the old website in non-deprecated markup language so that I can actually post my photos of Spain in a beautiful, flexible format, to learning about “Quantum Cats”, and how many lovers Einstein [...]
voncookie | October 25, 2006
Doesn’t look that much different than the other place, does it? Why? It’s the books and the archways. But trust me. This new place is fabulous because it is CrackWhore-Free ™!
voncookie | October 25, 2006
I don’t really have a plethora of anniversaries in my life, just a few significant ones, most of which are fairly (well, actually, extremely) personal. However, one anniversary of mine can certainly bear the public eye… …One year ago today I moved into my current apartment, spent my first night there, left behind a most [...]
voncookie | October 23, 2006
Here’s a shout-out to my Mom (who undoubtedly will hate this picture) for giving a successful organ recital yesterday! Yay, she pulled it off, and well, too, from what I hear! Congrats, Mom, for an awesome performance. She keeps saying she’s too old for this, but look at that picture! I see not that of [...]
voncookie | October 23, 2006
Funny story: Yesterday in the SF Whole Foods—so pretentious, so wonderful!— Dad and I were at the deli counter getting some stuff for dinner, etc. I ordered some things (Sesame tofu. Gosh, a pound is a lot of food!) and Dad ordered some things from a different guy. When we were both finished, Dad’s server [...]
voncookie | October 21, 2006
My latest time-wasting activity is to look at my stats on my various websites to see how they’re doing—it seems like August was a good month for this blog, oddly enough! But lately there’s something going on that is really kinda freaking me out… I’ve been checking my “referring pages”—the webpages that would point you [...]
voncookie | October 21, 2006
voncookie | October 21, 2006
Last night, with Mark, for dinner in Berkeley, where I swear there are more Thai -food joints per capita than anywhere else in this great world, with the exception, perhaps, of Bangkok. I kid you not. By my old apartment, there were four Thai restaurants within three blocks of my place. And the best thing [...]
voncookie | October 20, 2006
I’ve now been up since about 2 a.m.—it’s just about 10:30 now. Man, am I going to crash in about five hours or so. I got up at two so that I could finish the grading that I had to do for the class that I teach. Grading, even though I’ve been teaching now (on [...]
voncookie | October 18, 2006
And for your amusement, here’s a random photo from my past of me with *really* bad hair. I think I’d rather have the hair that I do right now, thanks!
voncookie | October 18, 2006
I’ve discovered the underground! There are those who blog, and those who don’t, but finding out who’s who requires serious detective work… unless one is open and honest about it, as I am, which may be to my detriment someday, if you buy into the paranoia. Grad School bloggers tend to hide, I’ve found, and [...]
