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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Veepstakes Exclusive

Ever since the end of the primaries (and even well before the end of the primaries), the blogosphere and media have been more or less throwing out their ideas for who the candidates should pick as their number two*. Sometimes reporters and bloggers speculate based on “confidential sources close to the campaigns,” or who they [...]

The new fellow at work

In the span of time between the end of summer classes, and the beginning of fall, there isn’t much activity in the hallways at work. Lately I haven’t seen anyone around but janitors, and the occasional shadowy professor or grad student ducking in and out of their cave-like basement offices. Yesterday, I was a little [...]

Family Ties

We have a newspaper subscription bundled with our cable package. My roommate tried to cancel it, since we usually read it online anyways and we don’t want to kill unnecessary trees – nope, sorry forests! I wondered if there was a way to get the paper boy to deliver it directly into our recycle bin. [...]

Best Birthday Ever

I turned twenty-five yesterday! Nothing super noteworthy about the number, but according to what krissy and her friends say, that is the year when a single girl becomes a Christmas Cake – looks good before the 25th, but nobody wants it afterwards. Let me say that I think this is absolute bullshit, as all the [...]