Tom is Away

reading student evaluations.

2 things I learned about my neighbors today (after re-learning that they’re terrible at putting their trash out on windy days, thus causing all their shit to, once again, spill all over my lawn/driveway):

1. One of them is a vegan
2. They don’t believe in tying their trash bags shut. This is good, because when the can tips over, it allows for every individual ketchup packet, butter container, and banana peel to spread across the neighborhood.

dancing on that damn mouse’s grave.

eating free cold stone ice cream, then reading some of Rowdy Roddy Piper’s autobiography.

out for a post-birthday dinner with my lady friend.

hoping to at least double the number of sentences i’ve got written for this book so far.

passing time between classes– what are the odds i’d be stuck working on my birthday?

planning/pre-writing 100% officially done– tomorrow, it’s time to start writing sentences.

getting older.

C-Span ranks the presidents from 1-42 (Obama not included for obvious reasons)

I’m no history expert by any means, but Pierce, Johnson, and Buchanan must have been terrible to be ranked below a guy who died after 30 days.

Watching a whole bunch of Even Stephven clips

working. Next deadline: rough draft completed before I go to Ireland. might be tough.

You should buy this book and read it, and not just because it’s my friends

reading “Watchmen” and possibly eating cookies, although it’s probably bad etiquette to spill cookie crumbs into a borrowed book.

hopefully it’ll cost less than $15 to repair this laptop.

ordering more wrestling autobiographies (Rowdy Roddy Piper!)

prepared for class well in advance again. Keeping the streak alive.

Former Taliban official addicted to iPhone

gathering materials to re-apply for my job.

celebrating v-day by making burgers and eating a donut.