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I blogged like 13 times last week. Then, for Friday night, Saturday and most of Sunday, none. Blogs come in spurts, g... Sometimes I feel like it, and sometimes I don't.
Friday night we ventured over to Youngstown, which is about an hour to the east, right on the Pennsylvania border. Why? Well, I discovered that there was a minor league hockey team there (the Youngstown Steelhounds), which meant relatively cheap hockey tickets. We love the hockey, and anytime we can get it cheap is a good thing. They've got a few more games left this season. We intend to go again at least once before the season's up. After that? Baseball is back in Akron as of April 12, and Aeros tickets are only 8 bucks each. I'd much rather catch a minor league baseball game than a movie, anyway.
And movies from the library are FREE!
I've been elected volunteer webmaster of the Pet Guards website. Part of Amy's new job includes outreach and publicity. Therefore, I have been enlisted. I don't mind, since I can claim my time as a 100% deduction from my taxes and because it's not going to be terribly difficult to keep it up. Beyond that, it's work for a good cause. The only thing better than helping critters would be helping kids. And maybe soon, we'll adopt anyway. All of my friends with kids are making me super-jealous.
Not until I'm out of school... not until I'm out of school... not until I'm out of school...
The Steelhounds game was a lot of fun. It reminded me a bit of Slap Shot: small town arena, lots of fights, good hard hockey. I hope I get a job in a place with either minor league hockey or college hockey. I'm going to need it. It helped me get through the post-Christmas blues relatively unscathed. Silly, huh? I always had hockey nights to look forward to.
Another local oddity is the Cuyahoga Falls Cougars, an ABA semi-pro basketball team. Tickets are five bucks, the arena's about five minutes away and supposedly the game is fast and offense oriented (like the old ABA in the 1970s). I read in the publicity packet from their website that ABA game final scores are usually like 140-120 or something like that. Anything is better than the current NBA, which during the 1990s became so defense-oriented and athletic-minded that skills were overlooked for balanced athleticism. Now, the NBA should be the MMJ, for Millionaires Missing Jumpshots. I can't watch that shit anymore.
Why does Larry the Cable Guy have a new movie?
Oh, we're going to try to have our new Christian-vegan-straightedge friends over for dinner. I'll probably be calling (more likely emailing since I hate the phone) Carla for some recipes. Veganism scares me, but maybe she can make it relatively painless. I remember this one time the dorm had "Vegan Cassarole" covered with cheese, on which Carla delcared war. College days, way back when we were both in Indiana.
Tapioca is delicious. We're going to shop at GFS all the time now, since it's far better than the shit we buy at the grocery, and usually cheaper. We got a five pound can of tapioca there. It's been heavenly. Same with the cottage cheese... same size, same level of deliciousness.
Spring break starts this coming Friday. For the first weekend, we're cashing in on our free state park lodge stay that we won from WKSU a couple months back. For the second, we've mentioned an overnight to Niagara. The cash will tell us whether that will happen or not.
I'm awaiting feedback from Mary, a true political geographer, on my article for Seeds of Change. If I can take her feedback into account, then I can perhaps work it into a better form. I'm not yet happy with it, but then again I was treating it mostly as an intellectual exercise to work out some thoughts and ideas from my head and from things I've read into a coherent thought.
This coming week will be spent concentrating on a couple things: reading the NASCAR articles I've put together so that I can meet with Shawn about it on Friday; putting the Indiana terror stuff into writing so I can get some work into Jim by the end of break; reading for my dissertation. I'm going to start a fourth paper pretty soon as well, which will be a wider philosophical paper on the future of hazards. I will seek input and refinement from faculty on this, and hopefully get it published in a wide reaching journal.
Blah blah blah. Shut up about work!
Amy and I went and took pictures of new animals at Pet Guards for the Petfinder listings. It was fun to give those animals a little attention, but such a headache to actually photograph them.
Oh, and we'll be in Indianapolis on May 21-23. Amy has an ASPCA conference in Bloomington. We've already hooked up preliminarily with Jon about getting together and hanging.
I think that's probably enough writing for now.
Mmmm.... tapioca.
And movies from the library are FREE!
I've been elected volunteer webmaster of the Pet Guards website. Part of Amy's new job includes outreach and publicity. Therefore, I have been enlisted. I don't mind, since I can claim my time as a 100% deduction from my taxes and because it's not going to be terribly difficult to keep it up. Beyond that, it's work for a good cause. The only thing better than helping critters would be helping kids. And maybe soon, we'll adopt anyway. All of my friends with kids are making me super-jealous.
Not until I'm out of school... not until I'm out of school... not until I'm out of school...
The Steelhounds game was a lot of fun. It reminded me a bit of Slap Shot: small town arena, lots of fights, good hard hockey. I hope I get a job in a place with either minor league hockey or college hockey. I'm going to need it. It helped me get through the post-Christmas blues relatively unscathed. Silly, huh? I always had hockey nights to look forward to.
Another local oddity is the Cuyahoga Falls Cougars, an ABA semi-pro basketball team. Tickets are five bucks, the arena's about five minutes away and supposedly the game is fast and offense oriented (like the old ABA in the 1970s). I read in the publicity packet from their website that ABA game final scores are usually like 140-120 or something like that. Anything is better than the current NBA, which during the 1990s became so defense-oriented and athletic-minded that skills were overlooked for balanced athleticism. Now, the NBA should be the MMJ, for Millionaires Missing Jumpshots. I can't watch that shit anymore.
Why does Larry the Cable Guy have a new movie?
Oh, we're going to try to have our new Christian-vegan-straightedge friends over for dinner. I'll probably be calling (more likely emailing since I hate the phone) Carla for some recipes. Veganism scares me, but maybe she can make it relatively painless. I remember this one time the dorm had "Vegan Cassarole" covered with cheese, on which Carla delcared war. College days, way back when we were both in Indiana.
Tapioca is delicious. We're going to shop at GFS all the time now, since it's far better than the shit we buy at the grocery, and usually cheaper. We got a five pound can of tapioca there. It's been heavenly. Same with the cottage cheese... same size, same level of deliciousness.
Spring break starts this coming Friday. For the first weekend, we're cashing in on our free state park lodge stay that we won from WKSU a couple months back. For the second, we've mentioned an overnight to Niagara. The cash will tell us whether that will happen or not.
I'm awaiting feedback from Mary, a true political geographer, on my article for Seeds of Change. If I can take her feedback into account, then I can perhaps work it into a better form. I'm not yet happy with it, but then again I was treating it mostly as an intellectual exercise to work out some thoughts and ideas from my head and from things I've read into a coherent thought.
This coming week will be spent concentrating on a couple things: reading the NASCAR articles I've put together so that I can meet with Shawn about it on Friday; putting the Indiana terror stuff into writing so I can get some work into Jim by the end of break; reading for my dissertation. I'm going to start a fourth paper pretty soon as well, which will be a wider philosophical paper on the future of hazards. I will seek input and refinement from faculty on this, and hopefully get it published in a wide reaching journal.
Blah blah blah. Shut up about work!
Amy and I went and took pictures of new animals at Pet Guards for the Petfinder listings. It was fun to give those animals a little attention, but such a headache to actually photograph them.
Oh, and we'll be in Indianapolis on May 21-23. Amy has an ASPCA conference in Bloomington. We've already hooked up preliminarily with Jon about getting together and hanging.
I think that's probably enough writing for now.
Mmmm.... tapioca.
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