Last night I dreamt I was in a noisy and crowded room, much like a high school cafeteria, and an unfamiliar professor appeared, gloating with malicious intent, and forced me to take my doctoral certification exam as a ‘pop quiz.’ To add insult to injury, the examination was on Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics,. Sheesh. Could [...]
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Posted in Movies, tagged film review, Reprise on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
*Replete with SPOILERS*
I don’t go to the movies very often nowadays - it’s been a long while since I’ve seen anything especially entertaining, and so movie-going has devolved into a stress-relieving, work-avoiding, meet-up-with-friends and (especially during the summer) get some air-conditioning sort of thing. But early last week I decided to walk down to BAM [...]
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Dude!
Dude!
Uh, WTF?
OMG!
OMG!!!!
Uh, I don’t feel so good.
WTF?
OMG!
OMG!!
Uh, it’s something terrible.
Why is this happening to me?!
Roar!
The end. ‘Nuff said.
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Even though I’ve never been particularly sentimental about the end-of-year holidays, and belong to those who find the rampant commercialism of the season a cause for even more sociopathic behavior than is the norm, I found myself last night in a panic at the thought of showing up on Monday at my brother’s house in [...]
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Posted in Grad School, Movies on December 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, not really. I still have a couple of sessions and a final examination for my regression class, but I’m not very worried about that (perhaps foolishly so).The ‘true’ end of the semester came for me today as I handed in a paper for my stratification class, a breathless race to meet a hard-stop 12noon [...]
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