Finally got my grade for this past semester, got a 'B' in History of Literary Criticism. Not too shabby, considering that was one of the toughest courses I've had in a while. A lot of people dropped out of the class including the one really smart chick who I thought would've rocked the class, being a philosophy major and all. Yeah, she balked . . . :P

Has anyone else heard about the great thing Bill Gates is doing? He wants to promote the internet (which Al Gore invented ) by having us all email our friends, and we'll all get money. Lots of it. We'll go to McDonald's after we get our money and buy each other lunch!!! Keep an eye out for the email in your inbox, i'll be sending it soon!!!

Ok, this is some wierd Flash-thing that chix might dig, like '80's rocker chicks might enjoy . . .

And this, is perhaps one of the silliest and worst poems ever written (thankfully I didn;t write it):

Oh, the Cause of Gauze

Oh, the Cause of Gauze
The Manuels have fondled many memories from my lap
Though each memory has it's own lap
And swimmers swim laps
Even swimmers have laps however
And while in that condition
Many require a delicate gauze
I desire only this in my decrepitude
That I will have one more opportunity to serve as a gauze for my fellow man
And that in that state of gauze
Can somehow disturb the world less often with my prickly fingers.

- Of Montreal

Fighting off the Bah Humbugs

I'm starting to see a secondary / tertiary aspect of Christmas: giving us something to look forward to in the deep dark of winter. Dude, winter sucks. . . and if not for that holiday, winter would suck completely. Oh, I like doing stuff in the snow like skating and skiing, and what not. And maybe it's just because I haven't done any of that fun stuff yet this year, or maybe because my Jetta-opy (pronounced like "Jalopy" but with a ' T ' instead of an ' L ') wont' turn over if there's a sneeze of moisture in the air (not to mention that you can't take any more than one passenger now, because the rear doors dont' open, and the handles on the front doors need replaced as well, and the exhaust pipe has a gaping hole), or maybe because I'm still in limbo about how this last semester turned out, or maybe it's the "Single-for-the-Holidays" crap, or maybe it's that there's short, cold days, the darkest of which are now and until January. Or maybe I just needed to rant ...

Fighting off the Bah Humbugs

This was a really good weekend, overall.
Friday five of us went to Johnstown, OH to see a Tambura band (Otrov) play. On the way up, our friend Tara (also on the way up a few miles ahead) called to say she just got a flat tire when WHap-wup-wup WHap-wup-wup Whap-wup-wup WHap-wup-wup ... we got a flat tire too! Kooky! So fortunately we had a spare and I changed the tire. The show was a lot of fun with really good music that got better as the evening wore on. Something beautiful about seeing these guys play at the bar (like AT the bar) while passing shots of slivovitz and still playing and singing. Nasdrovya !!!

Saturday afternoon, got the tree up and decorated, then hung out with Jim and Mikey for a spell over at Josh & Jessies... got to see young Jacob B. Josh lent me a cd from these guys. It's a lot like the review says.

Here's one thing on my Christmas list:
Skyray
and another: Ukulele
and another: an evening out with Audrey Tatau