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Dramatics without soul.

Last night, instead of watching the Twins lose 6-3, we watched The Bachelor, reality TV at its best. It was actually pretty good drama. The funniest part was that my roommate knew one of the women on the show from his bartending days. And she was the whole reason for any drama whatsoever on the…

Dreams are weird.

I had a dream last night that I was in an office building looking out these windows—not sure what I was doing there—and all of a sudden a plane dropped out of the sky, landed in the middle of the city, and shot flames everywhere. Then suddenly planes were coming from everywhere and dropping onto…

Klutzy Klaire

Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed_Grunt)cious Announcer: It's the Krusty Komedy Klassic! Krusty: Hey, hey! It's great to be back at the Apollo Theater, and— {turns around, notices sign} K-K-K? That's not good. I tripped in the dark on my way to the bathroom and damn near broke my nose. My room is a mess. My nose is hideous. I…

Sushi and Porn

I got nothing. Weekend highlights: Went for sushi late Friday with an out-of-town client to celebrate getting everything on the web site finished. Turns out the entire floor at the MAC is now Martini Blu. Took me a few minutes to notice what was playing on the tvs on the walls. Sex scenes from famous…

Popcorn Callousness

There was a minor explosion at the U today. A co-worker of mine was tooling around on rollerblades eating some free popcorn from the bookstore when he stopped to watch the EMTs give CPR to one of the students. So he tells me he's standing there just eating popcorn and watching all the action until…

Napster is dead. Long live Napster.

All right, I posted way too much yesterday. To atone for my sins I will only post the most fascinatingly brilliant and urbane rants. I swear. Who am I kidding? So Napster was either hacked or has faced up to reality. Their site has been updated. It's a shame that Napster failed. I had hoped…

An architect on world trade

As we near a pretty sad one-year anniversary I was digging thru my folder on the events. Found this quote: "I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World…

Nightmare Roommate and I broke up finally.

What a long weekend. It's official. I'm finally done with Nightmare (ex) Roommate forever. As predicted, she was rude to me when I went to clean on Saturday. I skipped out on her on Friday because her idea of cleaning was to basically clean every single nook and cranny of the entire apartment. I've lived…

Cleaning and Crying

I am inches away from being 100% done with my old apartment and Nightmare Roommate. I have everything out except cleaning supplies. Yay. But it's the last few inches that are going to be so stressful. I have this overwhelming fear that I am forgetting something crucial and it will destroy my life because of…

Nightmare Roommate and cats and beer. Oh dear.

Thought I'd post a NR story: Nightmare Roommate likes cats. Claire tangent: Ramona HATED her because she would pick her up and squeeze her and try to pet her. Ramona is far too aloof to allow that sort of nonsense. So she hid from her. Nightmare Roommate likes cat-themed things because she likes cats. So…

If an anvil drops in the Warehouse District…

Today was Gardner Hardware's Annual Anvil Drop. Every year they go up to the top of their building and drop eggs, cantaloupe, pineapples, watermelons, and ultimately an anvil onto a junker below. It was great. There were about 100 people there. They give out free food and it's generally a lot of fun. Patrick (cousin)…

Days and Months

So this is the first I could post today, but all I really have to say is one cool story: I came back from buying sweet corn and chicken (Heathrow and I made the office lunch today) and hit the space bar on my machine, as it had gone to sleep. Internet Explorer was open…