So, as part II of my cooking adventures, today I made for myself a chupaqueso. It didn’t come out perfectly, but it was quite good. A fun food, so long as you don’t mind a lot of cleaning molten cheese off plates afterwards. Yes, one of these days I will probably write again about something [...]
I don’t usually go in for crazy schemes. This is for a couple of reasons, the most important being that I’m not really creative enough to come up with things crazy enough to work. The second reason is that being lazy, I rarely follow through and see if something actually would work. This is why [...]
Still sick. I have no idea what it is, but the resident medical expert (my mom, who is a dentist) figures it’s strep. Whatever it is, it’s terribly annoying. I get sleep in 5-minute snatches, my throat and everything I do with it (talking, breathing, swallowing–especially swallowing) is still terribly sore. Even better, I’ve got [...]
There has never been a war without civilian casualties. There will never be a war without civilian casualties. The nature of war is such that it is impossible to completely eliminate civilian casualties, friendly fire, and all the other problems that are inherent in the concentrated use of force in an effort to change the [...]
Yesterday I read an article, the endpiece of the most recent Time magazine. And basically, it was a nicely written thing by a guy about how he is upset that he has always lacked depth. About how he never kept a journal, never was depressed, never really looked for anything more than food, sleep, and [...]
According to my watch, I got back from camp yesterday. However, as I haven’t slept in between being there and here, I’ll just say that today I came home from Camp Segowea after being a counselor there for two months. I’ve spent the last few hours catching up on email (I received 1248; approximately 1200 [...]
1. Same username I’ve been using since I decided that my full reallife name, concatenated into one big word, probably wasn’t the best of ideas. Looked in the dictionary for definition including “(roman OR greek) AND (military hero)”; came up with something similar. Twiddled it to get Coriolinus. A cookie to those who can name [...]
Nyren closed the window today with the announcement that the cold in this room was making him physically sick. I didn’t argue with him; there are far simpler ways of dealing with the situation, but I’ve got a few issues with that statement. And it’s easier to write them here than try to confront him [...]
It’s snowing again. Today is the first day of spring. Why? I’m starting to think that the calendar year is a few days shroter than the actual orbit of the earth aronud the sun. Because I remember November being a month of the first real snowfalls, with December being laden with heavy coats of white, [...]