My sister and I both are born in September, and September has always been the best month. As children it was clear that September was the best month, because we’d go to our grandparents in Salem and ride the bikes around Minto-Brown Island and have picnics that were filled with cake and bees. In September [...]
Archive for August, 2008
September
Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Take Down
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Mother: Do you think I would win in a fight against David Hirsch?
Me: No.
My Mother: Oh. Really? Well then I won’t try it, because I wouldn’t want to fight him and lose.
Me: Well, I don’t think he’d fight back, so you might win.
My Mother: Oh, well, that’d be no fun at all.
Weblog List
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll notice I figured out how to have a weblog list at the side of my screen. This is a list of all the weblogs I read, because they’re the only weblogs I know how to get to. However, if you have a weblog and you know me so well that you’re interested in reading [...]
Decision, More or Less
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Okay. This is what I’ve decided: Year off between my MA and my PhD. I know, I know, it sounds weak, and that’s exactly what I think, too. However, I think it’s a good idea and I’ll tell you why.
In order to be eligible for funding at British PhD schools I need to turn my [...]
Crime Watch
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is all the crime in Benton County (or rather all the police calls) for the period between August 19th and August 22nd:
Animal Complaint: 11:03 a.m., 5800 block Southwest West Hills Road, Corvallis. The animal control fficer recieved an anonymous phone call aobut an underweight pony. The caller was concerned that the animal was being [...]
Tommy the Cat
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tommy is our black cat. He’s thin and sickly, but seems happy, or peaceful. Tommy was sitting by the glass door, looking at the dog food bowls.
My father: Tommy is contemplating the shadow and the light. He thinks he would like to render it on paper. He thinks about its beauty and what it means [...]
Up In The Air
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This spring my sister claimed she had attention deficit disorder, because she wanted a single room. She’s right, though, or rather I find it very easy to find myself attention deficit, just because there’s too much to think about and too much to do. There are many thousands of times too much to do, all [...]
Wedding
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My aunt and youngest cousin have been traveling around, looking for a venue for my eldest cousin’s wedding. He’s getting married in maybe January; it’s not that he’s getting married in January, but rather that we want to have a venue rented, just in case he wants to get married in January. My aunt and [...]
A Year and A Half
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All morning at the horticulture department I stood in the rain and I helped move bark dust with a shovel and a wheel barrow. The night before we’d been up ’til two, getting my sister from the airport. Still, it’s a lovely day and I’ve got pleasant flowers, and I’ve been dating David for a [...]
LDS Wedding
Posted in Uncategorized on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to an LDS wedding reception today, as you do when you’re 22 and in Oregon, for a good friend from high school. The reception was really lovely and at the grandmother’s house, a house, as Jerry the Genius pointed out, that seemed to be made for the occasions.
At the door of the reception there [...]
Country
Posted in Uncategorized on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The thing I’ve noticed about country music (because there’s nothing else but evalgelicals on the radio in Oregon) is that it’s very literal. Don’t try and give a country song a metaphor, because it’s going to want to explain it. Tonight, when driving back from Amy Arnold’s wedding, the country music station played a song [...]
Caption
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Gazette-Times published a picture of a woman looking at the internet with a boy across the table from her. The caption read:
“Susie Evert looks online for deals on back to school clothing Monday as she takes a break from homeschooling her son, Adam.”
1. Susie is a bad homeschool teacher, or at least, the picture [...]
Chuck
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the Horticulture Department I work on Kevin and Kevin’s team. Kevin and Kevin are very pleasant, but the tone of the office is set by Chuck, who is a ball of misogyny and, let’s face it, also really, really dumb.
Chuck: I only work 32 hours a week, because life is for having fun, and [...]
The Voice of America
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My grandfather (whose head is swollen from skin cancer sergery) used to work with the military creating propoganda to overcome the communists. One thing he worked with was a radio program called “The Voice of America”. My grandfather’s job was to start the program saying “This is the voice of America”. That’s right, I’m directly [...]
Enthusiasm and Despondency
Posted in Uncategorized on August 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, yesterday, clearly I was being despondent, whereas today, though not entirely filled with enthusiasm, I am clearer on how the world is wonderful. The problem, right now, with enthusiasm, is that September as a month is going to be a horrible hassle. It should be decent fun, I particularly look forward to Miriam and [...]
Fig Season
Posted in Uncategorized on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During fig season life is sweet and we get nearly all our daily calories from round, green, pockets of sugar and seeds, that seem to be about the best fruit in the world, which grow just above the ladder and just above the rose trellace, and just below my parents bedroom window. You can get [...]
Slacker Brian
Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I work this summer essentially as a gardener at Oregon State University’s Horticulture Department. Tuesday through Friday I usuall work with Slacker Brian, who says there’s a reason that there’s the saying “It’s good enough for government.”
Brian has mastered slacking, which he usually does while telling you about the old days, when he worked as [...]
Yiddish Stories
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been reading yiddish stories. They’re awfully good, but mostly seem to end in death. However, I have found out you can tell a demon by his webbed feet.
Virus
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My mother’s computer had a horrible virus that she got by opening an e-mail that said “Your E-Ticket from American Airlines. Your Credit Card Has Been Billed $450″. Anyway, given that my sister and I are always buying plane tickets, and that the parents themselves are traveling soon, you can see how she opened the [...]
Mars
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
They’ve confirmed water on Mars. Just so you know, when I was in 7th grade I was really excited about taraforming Mars (which I was going to do before I turned 21). I obviously haven’t done that and probably won’t, but it owuld help the process to have water on it, if I did. I [...]
