No maps for these territories

So better take the keys and drive forever Staying won’t put these futures back together All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me up to zero – Aimee Mann, “Humpty Dumpty,” from Lost in Space A perfect rainy Saturday; a late breakfast, up sleepily after a late night watching Jeeves and [...]

My most dreaded part of my job, the part where I cold-call people (both official and not) to find out technical information regarding the topic I’m researching, has been going swimmingly. Amazingly well, even. My phone-fu is strong today.

This past weekend I went to Vancouver, on the train. It was a quick 30 hours, a whirlwind of sightseeing and shopping and getting rained on continuously, that nonetheless left me happy, less stressed out, unconciously relaxed me until by the time we were pulling out of the station to go home at sunset last [...]

God, it smells like spring outside. Mild, scent of flowers, lawnmowers. It makes me nostalgic for I-don’t-know-what (it makes me want to go for walks in the park). I suppose Easter is right around the corner. I finished Vile Bodies — so good, so heartbreaking, so cynical. I am currently reading 1984 (for no good [...]

Lauren and I now match. It’s a little rediculous. My hair is just the tinyest bit longer, and it’s at the same color, as usual. Also, glasses. Also, stress, as I work to finish a paper. I am writing (briefly I will tell you, as I should get back to it) about Ephraim Chambers and [...]

Yesterday, first I came home and saw Lauren for the first time since she lopped off her hair. I was expecting this, so it was not too bad. Then, I went downtown to see J., and he had completely shaved his (fully bearded) face, which nearly gave me a heart attack, as he looks completely, [...]

I have been formatting things in APA/CBE for so long, thanks to two years in a nominal social science and lot of work with scientific manuscripts, that setting my list of works cited in MLA is making my head hurt. Stupid dates at the end. What are they thinking?