Monthly Archives: April 2007

Go, Tech Valley, go!

Our local col­lege scene hits a national story about acad­mic fraud. All RIGHT!!
MIT admis­sions chief steps down over false cre­den­tials
Jones, 55, orig­i­nally from Albany, New York, had on var­i­ous occa­sions rep­re­sented her­self as hav­ing degrees from three upstate New York insti­tu­tions: Albany Med­ical Col­lege, Union Col­lege and Rens­se­laer Poly­tech­nic Insti­tute. In fact, she had no

Feeshie

FOR THE WIN.
I bought a new fish at the fish store yes­ter­day. His name is Sparky, and he is now miss­ing. I don’t think he ran away, so I’m a bit con­fused.
This species is very shy, so he’s prob­a­bly hid­ing in the hol­low rock if he’s still alive. Freck­les, the big molly, is

National Pretentious Radio

I’m lis­ten­ing to On the Media from a few weeks ago, and the topic at hand is Mitt Romney’s being a seri­ous Mor­mon pres­i­den­tial can­di­date. Brooke Glad­stone is inter­view­ing a Mor­mon author, and she just can­not get the sneer out of her voice when ask­ing religion-related ques­tions.
I really hate NPR sometimes.

HIGHLY IRONIC CRISIS!!!

This is going to sound pretty ironic com­ing from me, but:
HELP!!! CRISIS!!!! WE HAVE A MOUSE IN THE KITCHEN!!!!
I saw a flash of some­thing brown div­ing into one of the burn­ers on the stove. At first I thought, “no, Truffle’s in her cage.” I tried to con­vince myself that I was hallucinating…until

peep peep peep

PEEEEEPS — maybe a good thing that I don’t have an ebay account anymore.

It’s for my own good

Some­one needs to take my copy of iMovie away before I hurt someone.

Palm Sunday 2002

Five years ago, I was study­ing abroad in France. I had cho­sen a pro­gram run by a very “artsy” col­lege, and the nature of our field trips reflected this.
One trip brought us through Nor­mandy, mostly look­ing at churches, archi­tec­tural sights, and art muse­ums. None of the D-Day tourism that I would have liked,