I am a McGuyver of everyday life. You know those pictures you sometimes come across on the internet that feature things like wires and duct tape and nails holding together an old TV, usually labeled something like "redneck HD"? That is my life. A combination of frugality, pack-rat mentality and just plain laziness has made… Continue reading You’re Doing It Wrong
Month: October 2011
You can’t take the sky from me.
I'm a bit late finding out about this (apparently I don't spend enough time on twitter, or I probably would have known sooner), but back in September a professor at the University of Wisconsin had a Firefly poster removed from his office door for "references to violence," as well as the fascism poster that he… Continue reading You can’t take the sky from me.
Bad Ideas 101: NaNoWriMo 2011
I'm like, the queen of ambitious ideas. I know that there are lots of people who do the same thing, and thus that makes me entirely unremarkable, but sometimes I just have to take a step back and marvel at the sheet size of the disconnect between my goals and my actual accomplishments. For example,… Continue reading Bad Ideas 101: NaNoWriMo 2011
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Since I moved and found myself with a 2 hour commute daily, I've been getting a lot of reading done. I've always liked reading, of course, but being an English major with an abnormally slow reading pace often meant that I didn't have the time for pleasure reading after I'd finally finished all of the… Continue reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories
My New Best Friend
They say you can't buy happiness, but you can buy pets, which are pretty much the same thing. So I've gone and done just that. Meet Tonks: She is a 6-week-old female algerian gray hedgehog, and she thinks that Drew is a jungle gym. I've named her Tonks on account of the fact that she… Continue reading My New Best Friend
M.M. Jordahl 