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1) The Australian performer Stelios Arcadiou has had a third ear grafted to his arm. It’s supposed to be art. The ear isn’t functional, though he is hoping to eventually install a microphone in it so that audiences will be … Continue reading →

I don’t think I’m actually a technophobe.  Curmudgeonly, perhaps, and resist to trying new programs or reading new media outlets, but, as Sydney can tell you, I’m that way in all walks of life 🙂  But today the topic is … Continue reading →

“This morning Ginia [Virginia] wanted Thoby [her older brother] to give her something which he had, but he wouldn’t, so she went up to him and gave him a hug and said, ‘Please Thoby give it, Darling Sweetheart Boy,’ but … Continue reading →

I had a few thoughts about the man’s response to the ad below.  One big part of me was thrilled: in this day and age, after so much fighting over women in the workplace, I am guessing that one of … Continue reading →

People are so entertaining. Here’s the opening of a post on Craigslist: What am I doing wrong? Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not … Continue reading →

The Graduate School has approved my request to have one of my fellowship semesters moved forward so that I don’t have to TA in the spring. This is good news, since I’m hoping to spend Hilary term at the University … Continue reading →

Sydney’s lasagna is delicious, but we both ate heartily and hardly made a dent in the large dish!  We both come from families of four, and we both tend to think of cooking in terms of four, rather than two.  … Continue reading →

Sydney just put a pumpkin lasagna in the oven (wow, I can’t believe that’s lunch around here!), but he apparently thought that wasn’t enough food, so he dug out the pumpkin pies he made yesterday to start us off.  I … Continue reading →

This summer Sydney grew really ugly pumpkins. Squash, actually, but hideously ugly all the same. Of course, Sydney vigorously disagrees. I’ll offer no response except a note that everyone who has seen these things says something like, “Whoah, does your … Continue reading →

We’ve come back from the book sale with less than half our usual cull.  By this point we own enough books that we’re not having to take what they have by the truckload.  Sydney and I each found a few … Continue reading →