The Unread Book Meme

Via k8 at Harmonia’s Necklace, I came upon a meme that, despite my usual apathy toward memes, I simply must participate in. The explanation:
This is a list of the top 100 or so books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users.
Rules: Bold the books you have read, underline the ones you read for school, [...]

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Firsts

Saturday night was our first night sleeping in the house.
Monday night was our first time ordering a pizza delivered to the house.
Tuesday marked the arrival of our first piece of junk mail at the house, in the mailbox Mark erected on Monday.
Last night was also our first time to actually entertain guests in the house, [...]

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Moving Anxiety

Please excuse the lack of promised updates about the wedding, and lack of updates in general. First of all, we got back from the wedding a day later than expected, because the first leg of our flight back was the same one to Chicago that Matt & Heather were on. Why would their presence mean [...]

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Travel Notice: The Twin Cities, MN

Not that this excuses me from not blogging all the rest of this week, but this here is a warning notice that I will not be blogging until next week sometime. You will have to seek fine, quality entertainment elsewhere. I feel confident you will manage.
However, upon my return, I plan to regale you with [...]

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We never actually leave Grinnell

Just to add further weight to my father’s theory that Grinnell is not a college, it’s a cult, a story from this weekend.
On Sunday, as I mentioned, we took a field trip to the house with my parents and grandparents. As Mark and I got out of the car and waited for everyone else to [...]

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Moving: The Trickle

I think it was the very next day after we bought the house that Mark initiated the following conversation:
Mark: Promise me something?
Me: Um, what?
Mark: That we will both agree to never drive to Durham without something in the car to drop off at the house.
Me: Okay.
I admit, it is a sensible suggestion. And even though [...]

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TV rots the brain by filling it with useless knowledge

One of the problems with having hobbies that I prefer to do with something going on in the background is that it actually encourages me to watch more TV than I need to. I don’t mind this if I’m involved in, say, watching all of the first four seasons of Babylon 5 on DVD, but [...]

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Our house, in the middle of our street…

Well, Mark and I have had an eventful week this week. We have finally closed on our house! For those who were unaware we were looking for a house, I admit that I did not do a lot of blogging about the process, because, well, I didn’t really want to say anything until we were [...]

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Mild Annoyance Over Holidays

I find it kind of annoying that my Japanese-themed calendar* that I have on the bulletin board over my desk at work does not actually make note of any Japanese holidays. This has become an actual inconvenience because I am in the midst of coordinating a complicated group order of temari books and supplies from [...]

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