This and That: Part Deux
Sir @ August 25, 2008 # 13 Comments
This.
That.
Challenge: Accepted
Sir @ August 22, 2008 # 19 Comments
Challenges are a weakness of mine. This young lady removed her proverbial glove and slapped me with it, demanding satisfaction in the form of a story about something horrid, preferably involving poop or one of its distant cousins in the bodily fluid family. Well, then. Fine. Gird your loins, brave reader(s), [...]
Woe Is Them
Sir @ August 13, 2008 # 15 Comments
O me. Thou art such a neglectful bastard! In my defense, the brain is being ground into mush by a combination of firehose-style learnin’ and numbing boredom during the aforementioned administration of the firehose.
Worried about the prospect of not being able to match OSHA’s thunder during the first week, Biochemistry faculty [...]
Props in the Hizzouse!
Sir @ August 8, 2008 # 10 Comments
A slim week, really. Not much reading involved, though large amounts of listening. I spent the vast majority of my awake time being oriented to my new surroundings. The OSHA people, always fun and full of glee, extracted our child-like whimsy and crushed it as we all watched. Some highlights:
No kung [...]
Immovable
Sir @ August 4, 2008 # 15 Comments
Fate is fickle. The other night, I was walking back to the car and observed that Fate had crept up at some point during dinner and emptied the air from my back left tire. I did an about-face, caught my fellow dinner-eaters, told them about Fate’s being a dick, and watched as they [...]
Props in the Time of Cholera
Sir @ August 1, 2008 # 10 Comments
The elephant in the room (this post) is a duck. The duck-shaped elephant seen above sitting atop some well-chosen books and looking happy and eager to be on the verge of sucking down a martini showed up in my mailbox along with Gobstoppers and Whoppers (the malted candy, not the greasy flanks of flame-broiled cow). [...]