I can pretty much summarize the Sopranos' new season this way: lots of drug use and betrayal in the works. Shooting up between the toes and making deals with the feds. That's all you need to know.
Sorry to hear about Lazarus. My friend here -- her cat had some sort of abnormal intestine issue where his intestive folded in on itself and started to digest itself. A staggering vet bill later, the cat was fine but has to eat special food the rest of his life.
posted by Jen at 12:14 PM link/comments
Friday, September 27, 2002
Damn. That almost makes me wish I had HBO. I desperately want to get it, but I've yet to be able to justify to myself a good reason to spend an extra $20 a month on my cable bill. I'm woefully behind on my Sopranos-watching, anyway. I pretty much lost track of it after the woman who played James Gandolfini's mother died, and they did that whole reanimation/dramatic cyborg thing to write her into a scene post-mortem. Latest news in KateLand is that LazarusTheCat has some weird infection in his lower half that makes his urine form "crystals" that basically act like little razor blades on the inside of his bladder. He's not happy, and neither am I, considering the following factors: 1. My cat is sick, so I'm very worried. I always thought that pet insurance was a ridiculous idea, but now I'm beginning to reconsider.
2. The vet can't figure out what the hell is causing the problem, so I'm even more worried.
3. The above means that I've now shelled out $450 to the vet for two urinalyses, a blood test, a pathology report, x-rays, miscellaneous office exam fees, and two types of kitty antibiotics.
4. I have to shove a pill down Lazarus' throat once a day, which means that my hands are basically clawed to hell.
posted by Kate at 10:05 AM link/comments
Monday, September 23, 2002
Anyone watch The Sopranos last night? I must concur with Slate that this episode contained a historic projectile-vomit moment.
posted by Jen at 2:12 PM link/comments
Not much wittiness to report from this end either. Reading textbooks for blind students seems infinitely more interesting than what I've been doing, which is going completely bonkers trying to finish 5 sites whilst simultaneously switching over to a new computer. I have a PC and a Mac in my office, and we recently decided to give me a much newer PC. We gave my old PC to Holly, who needs it for less-memory-intensive-than-web-design tasks like MS Office functions. I got this new machine complete with Win XP, which has become the university's hyper-mandated operating system of choice. XP's not bad, but there are a few things I really can't get used to, like the part where every time I slap a zip disk into the drive, a "helpful" little screen appears like a nosy neighbor and says something like, "Oh! Hi there! I couldn't help but notice that you just put a disk into the drive! Here's a list of things I could do now. Pick one!" Unfortunately, none of the options are "Sod off. I'll go through 'My Computer' just like I always do."
posted by Kate at 10:21 AM link/comments
Monday, September 16, 2002
I wish I had something interesting and witty to report from the land of Idaho. But alas, not much has happened here. Same old stuff. I got a part time job reading textbooks for the blind students, but it's all confidential so I can't in good consciousness talk about it. Let's just say it's a daunting task to record a textbook for someone.
posted by Jen at 2:14 PM link/comments
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
This makes me sick. Sign here if it makes you sick, too.
posted by Kate at 9:42 AM link/comments
Monday, September 09, 2002
OK, that's hilarious. First, rarely do I see students sharing a book. Second, the hover-in-the-library scenario is idealistic at best, and tends to only happen to grad students, who probably spend too much time at the library. And the single student, let's just call him Aristotle, hanging in the classroom. Nope.
Two amusing things I saw within the space of ten minutes today. First, a sign on the restroom door that read, "This room is full of wasps." So naturally, I had to look, and sure enough, there was a disturbing number of dead or dying yellow jackets on the bathroom floor. Second, a one-woman "protest" of sorts on the middle of campus wherein the woman was holding a ten foot tall sign that said something like "you are all sinners and you are going to hell." Both events were a stellar way to start my Monday. Hurrah.
posted by Jen at 2:03 PM link/comments
I've been spending a lot of time lately looking for academic-oriented stock photos to use on some of my sites. The contents of every "academic" photo collection are as follows:
posted by Kate at 10:59 AM link/comments
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
This weekend I went to Seattle for Bumbershoot, the big arts and music fest. Turns out not only did they have a continuous line-up of bands, films, performance art, and people selling cool things, but there was also your not-so-average festival food. Over the course of three days, here's what I ate: crab cakes, falafel, something vietnamese of the noodle genre, cotton candy, strawberries and whipped cream on a stick, cashews, blackened salmon on a ceasar salad, curried vegetables, scones, pancakes, scrambled eggs, and strawberry shortcake. After all that, my kitchen, which contains sour cream, water, beans, and a grapefruit, seems downright worthless.
posted by Jen at 10:52 AM link/comments