I spent a good chunk of my day at the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement, preparing our new space for a grand opening / open house type event on Monday. Among other things, we hung pictures, bulletin boards, and signs, and ate pizza made with lard in its crust. I was going to meet … Read more
Today was the STC-Carolina Membership Drive Luau, and I actually had a good time there. A girl named Wendy, who is a graduate of our MS program, was there and she and I and Andrew (our STC Co-President) sat together. The thing that made this event a Luau was the decoration and dress theme (mostly of … Read more
Today was such a beautiful weather day. The NC State Organization Fair, where all of the student groups and organizations that exist on campus can advertise their group, was held on the Brickyard today. I took the Wolfline bus there, where I staffed an STC table, along with our Membership Manager, Michelle. As I mentioned, the … Read more
I was up at 7:30 this morning, which on the one hand is very early for me on a Sunday. However, on the other hand (he wore a ring—ba-dump bump, I’m here all day folks), since I went to bed at 9:30 (after an hour of sleep on the couch) that was really 10 or … Read more
I picked up an “emergency” 30-day prescription refill today at K-Mart, as my doctor’s office has mailed me the 90-day ones, which won’t get here in time for me to mail to merckmedco and get the meds back before I’ll run out of one of them. I brought my flash drive with me to print … Read more
This study comes from Cindy Meston, PhD, and David Buss, PhD, of the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin. First, they asked 203 men and 241 women aged 17-52 in Austin, Texas, to anonymously list every reason they had ever had sex. Those men and women were taking psychology classes or were … Read more
I’m a regular subscriber to Slate’s Explainer podcast, where, when people hear something they don’t quite get in a news story, they write in and ask for an explanation about it. Here’s the latest (the last paragraph kills me): Bathroom Sex FAQ: Cruising signals, legal issues, and Larry Craig’s “wide stance.” By Christopher Beam Posted … Read more
Most times when I see someone who died young in the obituaries, and I google their name, I come up with a fatal traffic accident report, if anything. Every once in a while though, something interesting happens like seeing something articulated like this that happened to the person just a few weeks before they died: … Read more
My day started off very emotionally today—with two phone calls. One of my dear, dear friends in life left me a voice mail message yesterday, saying that she had something very important to ask me—that it wasn’t urgent, but that it was important. She went on to say that she didn’t know if it was … Read more
Amazing SIX-Year-Old Singer I met the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement (Yay! We finally have at least a “splash page” of a web site!) team in downtown Cary for Lazy Daze, one of the biggest one-day arts and crafts extravaganza in the country. Not being a shopper in general, or very interested in arts and … Read more