Too Often

Too often have I dreamt that I missed a course for the entire semester, and even worse, kept thinking it hours after having woken up. The one moment that was really tip top was one night when I went to bed after being up all night (procrastination). I woke in the darkness of an early December evening and feared I had in fact woken up at 7 am the day of an 8 am exam without having studied. Wow. It wasn't true and I took the remaining 12 hours to study.

FireFox

Since a new and volatile virus is running around the internet, attacking IE, I downloaded and isntalled Firefox to test out. So far, not bad.

69

According to this calculator I will be a millionaire in roughly 46 years and 6 months. At this rate, I will be 69 years old. That's far too old to have any fun.

X-Men Coming Soon

The Mutantsare coming.

Midwest

From This article about chicago's up and coming boutique stores regarding an arial photograph of Chicago:

"'So many people walk in here and ask, `Oh, is that New York?' ' said Lance Lawson, who opened Jake in this gentrifying neighborhood. 'I tell them, `No, it's your city,' ' Mr. Lawson said. "

And thus, Chicago is still not New York.

Amazing.

Jeri Ryan. Republican Senate Candidate. Sex Clubs.

I don't think there is a more entertaining CNNstory.

No More Soda

Shit, what will I do without Diet coke?

South Dakota

For a while now, North Dakota has been edging for a Name change, claiming that South Dakota rakes in 5 times as much money in tourism. Everyone in the North thinks people don't want to go there because North = Cold. (never mind Mount Rushmore).

But now S. Dakota is hoping HBO's Deadwood will do for S. Dakota what the Sopranos did for New Jersey.

I can't wait to see the faces on all those Deadwood viewers who show up in S. Dakota thinking they are going to get into a gun fight.

Rome

Today in Rome its 73 degrees and Sunny. Why am I in a swamp in suburban New Jersey?

Hair Bands and Opera

Saturday morning Mandee and I went to Vintage Vinyl. This was the first time I had been there in a long time. Just as we arrived, the band Sebastian Bach started playing. But I still had time to find The Eels Shootenanny and a Metric album.

Mandee found an album too.

That evening we went to Buccleuch Park for an even of world class opera. The performance was Madama Butterfly. Peter and Mandee and I sat around on the grass drinking wine--open alcohol container laws temporarily suspended--and listened to opera. It was amazing.

Poo poo to Paris.