Hartz, which didn’t quite succeed in killing my cat with their flea and tick pesticide in a “put this on your small animals” bottle — don’t use their stuff! — has reiumbursed me for the vet bills. Thankfully. (They do not, I am told, reimburse if your pet actually dies.)
As soon as I deposit […]
We all know the obvious rule: every year divisible by 4 is a leap year (Julian calendar, still in use in the Russian Orthodox church): it gets ahead 1 day every 128 years. We also know that centuries aren’t, unless they’re divisible by 400, too (Gregorian calendar, which we use): it gets ahead 1 day […]
I bought my plane ticket to Mexico. Beaches, I will see you in a month. I’ve been putting on buyign this for ages. But now I’ve started working again (3 hours a day, more or less, so a few hundred a week, on top of my stipend, which is just over half that), I feel […]
Mike Liberman at Language Log posts about people’s inattention to unexpected changes when doing a cognitively difficult task. This is also a problem for kids with learning disabilities, for whom[1] things like sounding out words is so difficult that they can’t pay attention to the content. This is well-discussed.
What I thought neat were the […]
I just read a very cute book: The Eyre Affair, by Jasper FForde.[1] It’s clever, in a sort of silly literary way. It features Thursday Next — how can you not like a protagonist named Thursday? — as a sort of literary detective, in an alterna-England where literature (and art) is a very very serious […]
Because I want to be cool, too, I just spent the last 2 hours figuring out how to cast on. I get it now!
Next up: how do I actually knit? That’s for tomorrow. I am having trouble finding good instructions online. Not that I actually got it when my grandmother tried to show me, […]
I’ll consider this a continuation of this post.
Cindy mentioned that the culture here is to leave your family — go away to school, go away for a job, go away in general. I don’t want to do that, obviously (neither does she). And it does make it hard. How can you be expected to want […]
In the gym today, I was asked out of the blue if I was going to see the movie. Apparently I was supposed to figure out somehow which movie I was being asked about (I didn’t, but it was The Passion, as you probably guessed). After we resolved that little issue, I said no. Indeed, […]
A grand total of 5 hours here, and I am already unhappy again. This is why my going back has moved from Wed to Mon to hey maybe Friday, but definitely Sunday. I don’t usually like to go on Sundays because of coming-home-from-a-weekend cross border traffic, but it’s tempting this time.
I really need to figure […]
You’re Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you’ve loved the same […]