Sweet! Some of my coworkers and I were just standing around chatting about books, and my supervisor was complaining about a trashy murder mystery she was reading that is apparently based around The Bacchae, and she was saying that if she wanted something Greek she’d just go and read the Symposium again. (She’d read it [...]
And so we come to that most strange part of the corporate week, Casual Friday. The day on which we are permitted to wear blue jeans to work, as if their permission was what had been holding me back from wearing jeans at any point previously in my life. Honestly, in my department at least, [...]
Portland is too big of a city to be such a small town. I’ve bumped into at least four people on the bus that I knew in school (two of whom I liked) met another old friend at a coffeeshop, and now I’m pretty sure that one of the tellers in the bank on the [...]
Because the celebrations would not be complete without a silly BBC news story.
I’m debating whether or not I want to attempt some sort of recap of my time away. All things considered, it’s been a rather interesting month. Fast cars and ice cream figured heavily, there were the separate discoveries that I am both tall and wise, and Shakespeare, Noel Coward and Jonathan Coulton all made appearances. [...]
Woot! My blog is back!
