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The corporate customer agreement between Avis and the UC system doesn’t include the “intermediate SUV” class. So the only way to get a vehicle with four-wheel drive and decent clearance, and be covered under UC’s insurance policy, is to rent in the “nonsensical gas-guzzler” class. (Note: there is a further class of SUV, the “giant […]
I’d put aside my thoughts of fish and bicycles when I moved up here for school. But two weeks ago, I snuck up to Seattle for the weekend, to see the Boy. We were laying around in the funny glow of the last day of vacation, talking about everything and nothing (as you do), when […]
Hoorah for the end of the semester! I feel like I found about the right level of effort this spring, working reasonably hard, but not on the edge of burnout. Next step is to see about some efficiency improvements, especially now that my time is no longer so structured by classwork… seriously, taking an empty […]
Happy birthday to me! In memely celebration, here are some other things that have happened on this lovely 29th of April (factoids via Wikipedia, memeage via Science Woman):
Births:
2020 - Henri Poincaré
2020 - Duke Ellington
2020 - Emperor Hirohito
Deaths:
2020 - Georg Brandt
2020 - Ludwig Wittgenstein
2020 - Alfred Hitchcock
Events:
2020 - France invaded the Netherlands
2020 - The US invaded […]
I haven’t given a shit about student government since I dropped my ASCIT membership four years ago. Now I have the United Auto Workers for all my giving-a-shit needs, and frankly, I’m just too pretty to worry about whatever financial shell games my department plays on my behalf.
No, I don’t want your flyer. No, I […]
I had a bruising encounter with a copy of USA Today (which I found on top of a trash bin in the Oakland Airport) this morning. Apparently they’re making Desperate Housewives into a video game. Why? They needed something with stereotypes in it:
“As fans of the show would expect, the game is loaded with gossip, […]
My mandolin calluses are still iffy, but I think I’ve officially moved from Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to Boil Them Cabbage Down. Which means I need a reliable source for the shittiest drum loops EVAR, preferably in a format that can be directly imported into GarageBand. Because what does the world need, if not abominably […]
… is having to clean up after someone who vomited in the shower, because it’s your turn to clean the bathroom and you shoulda done it before the party.
Fabulously important update! The culprit was a housemate, not a guest, and even better, the type of person who doesn’t even need to be shamed into cleaning […]
Someone’s been turning the stairwells of my building into gender-segregated classifieds. The poster on the avant garde of the Jobs for Men section depicts a woman grabbing a man’s wallet pocket, with the text “She will really want the junk in your trunk* / The average guy working for us next summer will earn […]
Today I sat behind a guy with a shirt printed with the lyrics to the Cal fight song, which I hadn’t seen before:
OUR STURDY LITTLE HAWK,
IS WATCHING FROM THE SKY.
LOOKS DOWN UPON OUR COLORS FAIR
AND GUIDES THEM FROM ON HIGH
OUR BANNER RED AND WHITE,
THE BEAUTY OF THE SIGHT
SAYS FIGHT FOR IOWA CITY HIGH
FOR IOWA CITY […]