Archive for July, 2009

Ceci n’est pas un post.

(Cricket[s]: get it? [Source: BBC])

Apologies for my silence. My computer has advanced considerably on the slow march to its demise, and, as I contemplate its replacement, I’m sneaking in this one on a borrowed computer. Shhh.

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Writing like an undergrad

On my way to the office this morning (cos I’m trying to avoid getting sucked into and enraged by the Sotomayor hearings, though I wound up listening to them at the office and getting enraged, anyhow: Jeff Sessions, your disingenuousness makes you sound so dumb that it vindicates the Senate Judiciary Committee that blocked your [...]

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Today’s binge

Date: July 7, 2009
Written: 3000 words
Deleted: 500 words
Consumed: 1 cup yogurt
32 oz. coffee with soy milk
1/2 cup stale trail mix
handful of chocolate-covered pretzels
hot green tea
1 cup leftover macaroni and cheese
an entire bag of microwave popcorn
tepid green tea
Phoned: Mom, who, upon hearing about my formidable accomplishments today, did not ask about my prospects for making her [...]

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