I will be out of town for the next few days. I’ll be in West Hartford, Connecticut, spending some quality time with my my mom and grandmother. On the one hand, it’s a good thing, because of the workmen tearing up the floor in the apartment above me would prevent me from getting any sleep ...

I think California’s trying to tell me I should be grateful I’ve got to leave. Consider: 1. There are now workmen tearing up the floor of the apartment above mine. This will continue loudly for some time. 2. There was a 6.5 earthquake, which I didn’t even feel because I was in the shower, and ...

WARNING: Nerd Alert. Forgive me. I installed the Google Toolbar on my Internet Explorer about a month ago, and the main thing it does for me is block popups. 413 of them, currently. That’s the weird part: It counts how many popups it blocks. And IE is not even my main browser. I primarily use ...

It’s very weird to have something of a winter break when you’re not in school anymore. When in school, it’s expected. When not, it’s a gift, but a very strange gift, since not many people get it. The show doesn’t tape for two weeks during the holidays, and everyone works ridiculous hours when we do ...

Because I cannot stop laughing at this headline, even when co-workers give me the evil eye for doing so. Stolen from Dave Barry’s Weblog

From The Onion: Network Pushes The ‘Dumbing It Down’ Envelope LOS ANGELES—Already home to Extreme Makeover, Trista & Ryan’s Wedding, and According To Jim, the ABC television network is now looking to develop some really, really, really dumb shows, network sources announced Monday. “With all the competition in television, we have to make the ABC ...

You know what annoys me? Well, a lot of things. But this morning, it’s inexplicable pronunciations. I was semi-watching Headline News, as I do in the mornings, and they had a story about sinusitis. Except they were pronouncing it “sine-you-site-is,” and doing so every 2 seconds. Not only was the newscaster pronouncing it like that, ...

The Washington Redskins lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 27-0. They gained a total of 161 yards. THE ENTIRE GAME! If Northwestern chokes worse than that at the Motor City Bowl, I’m not sure whether I’ll be disappointed or impressed.

It can’t top the Tomato Sauce Incident, but as I was getting ready to bring my laundry downstairs, I somehow managed to cut myself on a laundry basket. It’s not like it’s a wooden laundry basket that has things poking out everywhere, either. It’s just your standard issue plastic laundry basket with holes in the ...

I’ve been getting hyper in the late afternoon for a while now, but I don’t think anything matches the incident I had today. Usually I perk up right around 5pm, running around like a nut unless I’ve got something to do, and occasionally having enough energy that I have to go walk around the building ...