Haunted

My teacher walked into the classroom and frowned at me while I typed.  Apparently my focus while writing is such that I seem angry or upset, as if contemplating a bad exam grade or a disparaging letter to Microsoft for recently mind-wiping my Xbox (The company is sin incarnate.  Seeing the RLoD (Red Lights of [...]

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Exam Time

Forty-five minutes until the second (and thankfully final) day of my comprehensive exams begins.  By the grace of St. Jude, the school decided to fashion most of the exam around four 900 word essays chosen from ten, a task well-suited to my skills: fashioning something erudite and coherent from random mind-phlegm.  In other words BS-ing like lawyer in [...]

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I Don’t Know, Third Base

My blogging has been lax lately due to a weekly affliction natural to professors, students, and masichists: midterms.  Thus, until these dire days pass, my posts will encompass a few witty phrases followed by an awesome video or two.  As Halloween approaches, I find myself of late falling asleep to Abbott and Costello monster movies.  [...]

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Band Aid

The weekend activities rendered me quite dizzy, sick, and laid out with a bad head-cold.  Thus, much of Monday and Tuesday — freed from my daily academic commute by online classes — I slept most of the day and therefore found sleeping at night near impossible.  Incapacitated by illness and Circadian rhythms, my body and [...]

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Database Delirium

“Ok everyone,” my professor instructed us on the first day of class. “This course will not involve much lecture. My philosophy is that we’re a team here. I’m only going to give fifty-percent of the material. If we are going to master this material, I expect you to contribute the other half. You [...]

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Of Comics and Creeps

Like its patrons, comic book shops come in all shapes and sizes. In the years since I fell in love with comic books and super heroes, my travels have carried me to many a comic shop, many of which proved to be brightly lit, clean, and otherwise respectable havens from the drudgeries of reality. Others, [...]

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Disbelief

“Why on Earth do you read them more than once?”
The questioner’s tone of voice drips with shock and disbelief as if I had casually admitted to sniffing white-out. Moments prior I had casually mentioned to the girl sitting next to me (a beautiful freckled young lady equipped with a British accent, a [...]

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Systems Analysis

The instructions on the assignment bore into my brain like a drill. Look through Flickr. After finding three photos, derive your own tags for the photos and then compare them with others’ tags and the metadata provided by the Library of Congress.
Gah . . . every word tightens my nerves like another turn at [...]

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Dropped Out

Well, I truly screwed up this time. Today was to be my first of class for the summer, a week-long nine to five excursion through the city’s museums and art collections, yet last Monday something happened: I started my summer reading. Typically at the beginning of each summer, I peruse the children’s collections [...]

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Doctoring the Results

Earlier today Desad linked me to a scene from the series finale of the Extras, where Ricky Gervais’ laments the current state of celebrity. He states something rather frightfully true that struck a strong chord with me. Essentially, he admits that he could have been a doctor but did not want to put [...]

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