misc

sent off my first letter today...and next week i send off the letter and c.v. to all

the big question today has been how shall i dress up for halloween.

here are the chioces:

partially cloudy with a slight chance of rain
eric rudolph behind bars
grizzly adams
michael jackson
emory student

1st: blue shirt, pinned on cotton, & spray-bottle of H2O
2nd: unshaved, tattered shirt, dirty jeans, cardboard bars taped to face
3rd: unshaved, flannel shirt, my big grizzly bear stuffed animal strapped to my back
4th: black tux, white socks, afro, very, very clean shaven
5th: stuffed bra, tight, pink t-shirt that says porn-star, flip-flops, tight shorts with EMORY emblazoned across ass, very shaved, face, arms, legs

i've actually got 2 parties to go to...one tonight and one tomorrow night...yes the department of spanish is crazy and always has the halloween party the day after, even week after.

posted by Jeremy at 6:10 PM

the scent of care

yesterday i was at the grocery store and was charged with selecting a bar of soap for bathtub use. of the only brand of soap in stock, the three available flavors were:
1. apricot
2. fresh
3. care

i chose one bar of apricot and one of care.

i still have yet to smell the care. we started on the apricot this morning, and the care waits patiently in its wrapper.

to me, this does seem important.

posted by Chris at 4:15 AM

ed

i find this guy endlessly interesting.

more procrastination:

You are YIELD. You are tuned in to the big picture
and are a grade-A tree-hugger. You're upbeat,
easy going, and go for the simpler pleasures.
(sicko)


What Pearl Jam album are you?
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posted by Chris at 3:58 AM

should one take joy in the fact that the yankees didn't win?

is it ok to root against, or should one always instead root for? Rooting for somehow does seem healthier than rooting against.

posted by Chris at 3:26 PM

re-naming cnn, as it snows outside my window

as i have no tv and the translating the radio news is very fatiguing for my still-developing french, i have relied on cnn.com for news coverage. every day i look at cnn.com, and, every day, i become more and more sure that cnn should be re-named "the catalog of death and serious injuries." i guess cnn is not alone among news organizations in their focus upon death, but as a leading organization, they seem to feel they should be comended for their efforts at publicizing at least a few deaths per day.

one might say that news organizations perform a service by keeping each viewer aware of her/his own mortality. another might say that cnn focuses on the wrong deaths, exhibiting a biased approach to selecting the deaths it publicizes.

the one thing i'm sure of: cnn spends way too much time covering conjoined twins in graphic detail.

posted by Chris at 6:19 AM

check yourself

according to this little political quiz, i am a realist. i guess i can live with that. however, i know that too much "realisticness" and accuracy in one's self-beliefs can be a symptom of depression.

this realist will be away from internet for two days. (not because his baby is arriving but because he will be out of his office.)

posted by Chris at 6:37 AM

on the end of the world as we know it (or... maybe... almost... no, not really)

back in 1998, in the princetonian, an unbelievably prescient perseon published this article on the apocalypse and its relationship to a cubs / red sox worldseries

back in 1998!!!
an excerpt
Then in the seventh inning, the end would approach. A black cat would appear out of the stands, circle Brant Brown in the on-deck circle and then mysteriously disappear.

And with the score tied, 7-7, and Cubs catcher No. 7 Tyler Houston at the plate and Brett Saberhagen on the mound, the earth would shake and the sun would become dark blue like Yankee pinstripes. There would be a hush over the crowd, and suddenly out of the sky four gigantic figures would appear.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse ¯ Bill Buckner, Leon Durham, Babe Ruth and Harry Caray ¯ would descend upon Fenway Park. The Green Monster would be torn in two from top to bottom and come crashing down.

Shortly thereafter the world would end, because it simply impossible for the Cubs or the Red Sox to win the World Series. The rest of us would join every Cub and Red Sox fan in a state of eternal damnation and fully understand what their existence is like.

This meeting must be avoided at all cost. It will be difficult for most Cub and Red Sox fans to root against it, however, because a World Series title would mean more to them than life itself.

posted by Jeremy at 10:12 PM

out of devastation comes only a small fire

apparently, they could muster nothing more.

did anyone set fire to mudville? no one felt like it, i bet.

posted by Chris at 3:45 AM

fiddling over the red sox

i am sure that my beloved umass will burn stuff tonight, regardless of the outcome of the game. in amherst, they are equal opportunity burners, burning when happy or sad. in my five years there, they burned couches, trees, t-shirts, and toilet paper, while throwing rocks through cop cars, ripping urinals out of walls, dodging serial rapists, and finding severed goat heads in dumpsters. through all things, umass burns.

tonight, may they burn out of elation rather than sorrow.

posted by Chris at 10:14 AM

what are these guys writing?

well...here is something i worked on...and then lost 2 pieces of...and just don't have the time to continue working on...so i will post it...especially now that nobody reads this place...not even hermit greg, who can't seem to connect.

this comes from a canadian manual on proper library and book care.

what do you think the monkey and scholar are writing?

posted by Jeremy at 4:18 AM