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Archive for “May, 2007”

“i’m not a fan of the kids”

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

So, Bryan and I are sitting at our computers, working on our various, you know, blog-reading and whatnot. Suddenly he explodes in uncontrollable laughter. Why? Because he hates children.
Okay, I watched it, I also laughed. I mean, that shit is funny. But when he was clearly on his 10th+ viewing, I started to get alarmed. [...]


sweet god

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

The wedding gifts have begun to roll in, oh god yes they have. It’s like a nuclear blast of gift-giving. After living for a year with exactly three bowls, Bryan and I now look like we’re about to open a restaurant. (Fortunately, we can be counted on to clear cabinet space at a rate of [...]


winner of best reply card:

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

cook this at once

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

It’s been a busy time (finished grad school, btw), but Bryan and I have managed to cook regularly. And in honor of our splendid new pots and pans—maybe 20% of our motivation to get married—it’s been lots of new recipes and generally wonderful stuff. There’s quite a backlog of recipes to recommend, but I’ll start [...]


job, CHECK

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Last week, we finally checked two of our four major To Do list items of the list: we signed a rental contract in Berlin (completing all arrangements for the summer), and I accepted a job with a nearby education firm (that shall remain nameless so I can talk about it here without becoming a hit [...]


black kids CAN read

Friday, May 4th, 2007

It’s easy to think that social science fields (like say, education research) have not advanced in the last 30 years in the same way that more technical fields (like say, computer science) have. I mean, we certainly don’t seem to be doing a much better job of actually educating people.
But every once in a while [...]


oops

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

I’ve been cutting Bryan’s hair for about half a year now. It started in the fall, after swimming class had trashed his hair and we planned to shave him bald (you may remember the pictures.) A set of clippers and attachments of various lengths have saved him four or five trips to the salon, and [...]