I listened to my first Christmas song of the year today. Oh heaven.
(Finals week.. it can make you crack..)
Archive for the ‘Odds & Ends’ Category
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas…
Posted in College Life, Music, Odds & Ends, Uncategorized on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is enough.
Posted in Delights, Odds & Ends, Quotage, Thoughts, life on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The air tastes crisp. Leaves are drifting. The sky is all pale-blue high-flung vault.
Autumn. Cider, rain, books & comfy chairs, bright leaves, sweaters, long walks, soccer, spices, turkey, fireplaces, family. So many words wrapped up in “autumn.”
“I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at [...]
America Needs The Money Hole!
Posted in Odds & Ends on January 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wow.
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Of Interest
Book: Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
Music: “Fireworks” – The Whitest Boy Alive
Movie: Planet Earth (one day I’ll branch out, I promise).
Curious About: Birds of Paradise. Those things are wacky.
Check It Out: This is so cheating… whoa. ;)
Delight: Driving out of the fog onto the sunny reaches of Schweitzer mountain to go [...]
Carpe Diem
Posted in College Life, Odds & Ends on January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I really need to practice my Latin.
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Of Interest
Book: Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
Music: Disco tunes on Pandora (while having nertz marathons).
Movie: Still Planet Earth. It’s that amazing.
Curious About: Iceland.
Check It Out: Ah, hippies. ;)
Delight: Making concertina books. Anything involving glue and the paper-cutter has to be pretty fun.
Happy New Year and Happy Epiphany! (a tad belated)
Posted in Noteworthy, Odds & Ends, life on January 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
First off, an announcement. I have decided these posts need a new sort of format. Since they have no format at present, that shouldn’t be too hard. ;) Actually, I really wanted to toss this entire blog and start a new one, but whatever good intentions I started with, it would probably disintegrate into randomness [...]
Go Deep
Posted in Odds & Ends on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cooking With Dave
Posted in Culinary Adventures, Odds & Ends on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Friday… which means fish and chips night at O’Doherty’s Irish Pub and Grille! :) Dollar off by order of the Vatican. Mmm! Lots of salt and vinegar. But no one makes fish and chips like Dave.
The Guardians
Posted in Odds & Ends, Scampering Pen, family on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My big little brother just sent me a poem he wrote for school. He always surprises me – he’s such an amazing mountain-bike racing, skateboarding, hiking, outdoors maniac… and then in a quiet moment he comes out with the most profound and thoughtful things. Anyway… I kind of think he’s wonderful. :) Great job, Little [...]
Study Dance
Posted in College Life, Delights, Music, Odds & Ends on December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When you’ve been reading Turabian for 3 hours straight, sometimes you just need to get up and tear around outside in the cold air until you feel like your lungs might explode. But if you like to pull things off with a little more style, you can bust one of these [...]
Not-Quite-Commonplaces
Posted in College Life, Odds & Ends, Quotes on November 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A few of the more questionable gleanings of wisdom from NSA….
“Some of you may be raw carrots when you sing alone.” – Dr. Erb
“Some said he was divine, performed miracles, and had a golden thigh. I’m not sure what the significance of that was.” – Dr. Stokes
“When you look at men who are truly copious, [...]


