Tom is Away

i’m not sure what the distinction is between a status message and an away message on AIM, but I’m pretty sure this one is a status message.

working through potential composition books.

transferring files in the 2nd least efficient way possible, due to failure of all other methods.

I sure am grateful that Sportscenter used some of their air time to tell me what Dennis Rodman twittered in response to Michael Jackson’s death.

bad day to be an icon from the 70s & 80s. Watch out, Mark Hamill.

experimenting.

running into too many roadblocks when trying to transfer data from old laptop to new. have not yet resorted to smashing.

watching Brazil v. South Africa with Tim. Hoping South Africa can at least make the Brazilians work.

Stephen Wright is still awesome.

A pretty funny story about Elvis Grbac and People’s Sexiest Men Issue.

more reading. Infinite Jest. About 500 pages left. Maybe 600, i don’t know.

watching the US soccer game

also: they’re charging $300 just for use of the room in which the papers will be signed. That room had better have some nice freakin chairs.

settlement day, barring some kind of disaster. I’ve got nothing to do with it, but I’ll be there, and hopefully this time (like last time I attended a housing settlement but wasn’t allowed in the actual room), they’ll have a big box of free donuts available.

seen at the bar last night (although there’s no photographic evidence of my having seen this): a guy wearing a loose-fitting tanktop to reveal a huge tattoo running vertically (north-to-south) down the length of his ribs– so you know he’s trying to show it off, right?– and it’s an exact replica of the Michelob logo, including all the text about how “Michelob is the classic American beer,” etc.

trivia night failure.
greatest disappointment: missing on the year Muhammad Ali was arrested for refusing to fight in Vietnam (i said ‘63…)

2nd greatest: being positive jim bunning threw his perfect game in ‘64, but being dissuaded by peer pressure

out to collingswood for trivia night, hoping they award a damn $25 bar tab to the winners this time, instead of a stupid XXL t-shirt.

thrilled to learn that we won’t have to pay any taxes on this house sale

surprisingly busy.

Yeah, I think I’ll probably see this one.