By way of warning, final exams start this week. I have my first one on Wednesday, and they get serious on Friday. My last, a take-home, is due on Thursday the 16th, ten days from now. When I turn that in, I start packing the apartment for the move home to Charlottesville, from which I …
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Newspapers are on the way out.
Wired‘s Adam Penenberg‘s Media Hack column this week is about the future of print media and electronic media, and how the rise of the latter seems to correlate with the decline of the former. My favorite bit is the results of the Washington Post‘s study regarding the decline in their subscriber base: it’s because younger …
In Charlottesville for the week.
I’m up in Charlottesville for the whole of the week, visiting family and friends, for the duration of Virginia Tech’s extended Thanksgiving break. I’ll be running a beta test of a campaign staff training program that I’m setting up, doing some work on a new political effort that I’m launching (more on that in a …
One month to go.
One month from today, I’ll take my last two final exams. Four days after that, I’ll pack up a moving van and head home to Charlottesville, one year, four months, one week and two days after moving to Blacksburg and one year, seven months, two weeks and a day after finding out that I was …
Five words that I used, just one time.
phat ciao pomo anywho Rocktober (In the spirit of 5ives.)
Goofy baby.
October 19, 2004, 1:43pm. Ida, just shy of 10 months.
Autumn evening.
October 19, 2004, 5:39pm. Outside my living room window.
If I try and practis very hard maybe Ill get a little smarter.
The word that I most consistently misspell is “genius.” P.P.S. Please if you get a chase put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard…
Sick.
I’m sick. I thought it was a cold, but the nausea and the fever make me think it’s some kind of early flu. I just drove back to Blacksburg from Charlottesville, stumbly-driving, and more or less collapsed into my apartment. I’ve got a pair of midterms this week. I’m not sure what to do about …
Five albums I’m embarassed to admit that I bought.
Paula Abdul: Forever Your Girl Richard Marx: Repeat Offender Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Soundtrack Blues Traveler: Four Boyd Tinsley: True Reflections (In the spirit of 5ives.)