Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Thanks, Lou

PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE ME

For starters.
Uma

just ask the tourist group who went home with pictures of me posing with them. or the italian who gave me free gelato (stracciatella, of course).

but what really inspired me to investigate in this vein was elou's suggestion that jay leno looks like me, provided we take a profile shot.

Jay Leno

what do you think? please tell me elou's mistaken. please?

lastly, because i cannot resist, i think this woman looks like me:

Hot Mamma

the end.

Monday, May 28, 2007

finals crunch

papers. annotated bibliographies. running subjects in the lab, which is, by the way, the source of all my internet time--the test yesterday lasted 4 hours. waiting for batch files to terminate. it's a lot, but by the end of the day i look back and think: wow. that was a lot to do. it's nice to have a "job" that enables me to have the satisfaction of "getting a lot done." i might actually classify that as a privilege. for those of you who saw life in the DR, you can understand why it would be so satisfying. but at this point? i'm bordering tired... not there yet, but almost. i didn't even clean the condo in my OCD way this weekend. or play with Tink. but I did watch a movie. and go out for Tapas & good wine (for which a stranger picked up the bill: a good thing, as I'd forgotten my wallet). and rode my bike.

my goal for today? finish a paper. not just a paper: THE paper. do the laundry. go on a run, maybe even allowing the sun to return life to my pale & lonely skin. begin to study for finals. and pick up my box of veggies from the drop off (rhubarb, strawberries & salad greens... mmm...).

most importantly: continue dreaming. the hardest part is keeping my sights fixed on the end goal.

oh, and I lost Drew's keys... whoops.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

these are funny. really.

http://northwestern.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2074943&l=121b0&id=2418853

Banana Video: the absurdity of YouTube

I miss my blog

Continuing the "drewndana" Thaumadzo site doesn't seem quite right now that we're no longer in the DR. So, here I am. I suppose that being on my second consecutive weekend home alone has served to catapult me deeper into the throws of internet-ism: chatting with friends on AOL (thanks Lou), catching up with emails--I even entered the abyss of scholarly articles on babies & prosody. Thank God for google.scholar.

I've got things to do, believe it or not, so I'll stop here. But thanks for joining me. :)