I came back from Thanksgiving vacation late last night, actually very early this morning. I had to wait to get a cab at the airport for around an hour, so I made it back to my apartment around 1:30am. I did have a fairly refreshing vacation:

Not being near a library for a few days […]

So as I was going through airport security, my bag got special attention because there was an “odd shape” inside it.
If you are walking around with a souvenir melting clock keychain from the Salvador Dali Museum, take it out of your bag and put it in one of the handy plastic trays, lest security […]

I taught 3 classes in a row this evening, now I’m all done for the semester! I’m so happy!
Tomorrow I journey back to my hometown, a strange and mystical place where all the land is flat and surrounded by corn and soybean fields, two fake brothers travel around in a hot air balloon that looks […]

I really don’t see him as Ash.

It’s too bad the characters Sean Bean always plays in Hollywood action movies always end up being thwarted bad guys. I saw National Treasure — I was expecting it to be a predictable Jerry Bruckheimer movie and it was — and I couldn’t help myself from wishing that Sean Bean would beat Nick Cage up […]

Win Buffy Season 7 (this was the worst Buffy season ever)

Possible black friday deals

Well, I’m almost all done with teaching for the semester. I have some projects that always get pushed aside or postponed during a busy teaching time, so after Thanksgiving I’ll have to get back to work on those things.
Now I’m resting up at home drinking a beer. Maybe that is not the brightest idea in […]

I’m not fond of early morning committee meetings. Most of this is due to the fact that I am so not a morning person. Early morning for me is before 9:30. As long as the meeting takes place at a more humane hour, I report for committee work with a spring in my step and […]

Yowza, Shawn Fumo posted about rumors of Comics One’s possible impending demise and pointed to this site, which seems to be liquidating a bunch of Comics One manga.

I’m getting a few issues of Joan and buying Iron Wok Jan, which I have heard wonderful things about. Or maybe not, they have VERY high shipping charges.
I […]

Sometimes I don’t like being short. Whenever I try to clear the snow off my car, I always have a hard time reaching the roof even with a long-handled show brush. So I end up driving around with a giant snow mohawk on the top of my car.
And I was wandering around Target today, thinking […]