My son started Kindergarten last year, and in picking him up from school, I’ve overheard some peculiar conversations. One recurring conversation revolves around where the school buses park, and why my fellow parents are angry about this. I wish I were kidding.
You see, directly to the left of the building which my son comes out [...]
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This is where the buses park.
Birds
Every morning, I take my dog Zoë out for her morning walk. For the past few months, most of those walks were rather quiet; while I’m sure there are plenty of people up and about at 6:30 in the morning, they’re most likely getting ready for work or staring sleepily into their coffee mugs (hey, [...]
Russians, science fiction, and zombies
I recently renewed my Netflix account after having it on hold for a number of months, and have thus watched a fair number of movies in the past few weeks. A few thoughts on each:
Night of the Living Dead
The game Left 4 Dead was actually the reason I watched this movie; I bought the game [...]
Am I going to graduate school?
When I started college, my intention was to get my Bachelor’s degree in history, then go on to get a Master’s and, eventually, a doctorate. My end goal was to teach history at the university level. Now that I’m almost done with my Bachelor’s – if all goes well, I’ll have it this summer – [...]
Farscape for cheap
Yesterday I broke a major rule: I bought myself something right before Christmas. My friend Joshua told me that amazon.com had dropped the price for the complete Farscape series down to $58. This is a pretty awesome deal, as the individual seasons hover around $30 each (the first one is $45). At first I was [...]
