~Sunday~ I had Mostly Social Book Club today from 4:00-6:00. We're currently between books, so we were the Completely Social Book Club today. Various members are in various states of wait (i.e., on library request lists) for our next book, which is The Fault In Our Stars. From 7:00 until 11:00 this evening, I attended … Read more
~Friday~ Tonight I had a real treat—figuratively and literally—enjoying Cooking with Titina, a Christmas present from my friend Jen. Cooking lessons with Titina is a combination of meeting new people, learning new recipes, doing a little cooking, and then eating the hell out of everything at the end. Jen and I were the first ones … Read more
~Thursday~ So, it’s been a little over a month now since I started using my Fitbit, and as those of you who know me well know, I can’t go much longer without doing something with the data it’s collecting on me. I’m pretty sure I’ve worn the device every day, but there were five nights … Read more
~Sunday~ I know I should work harder at not getting my blood pressure up (not in a bad way, at least) at the gym, but on and off, there are a few really annoying things that happen there. I’ve given a couple of examples in the past, one of them being people who sit on … Read more
~Friday~ One of the reasons I don’t want to change my cell phone plan is that I am “grandfathered in” (at least so far) with an unlimited data plan. To that end, I don’t ever pay attention to how much bandwidth I’m using each month, but I have often wondered what it is. I logged … Read more
~Friday~ Last weekend, when I had dinner with my friends Jeff and Ed before seeing American Utopias with them, Jeff was telling me about a play that, as the Professor of the Practice of Theater Studies at Duke University, he is having his senior students explore for their capstone course. The play is called Picnic, … Read more
~Monday~ Tonight's class was fun and interesting, and shortly before it, we received our grade on our first journal submission, for which I received an "A." I noted on Facebook that if I were taking this class in a degree program, meaning that this grade would count toward my GPA, it would have actually lowered … Read more
~Saturday~ Tonight I saw Mike Daisey perform his one-man show (which all of his shows are) called American Utopias, which I found extremely compelling in spite of my skepticism before going. My skepticism—and angst, truth be told—was due to Daisey’s debacle of a year or so ago with regards to his show called The Agony … Read more