Instead, I do a google image search for Unicorns.
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Help my Jenny
My friend Jenny is doing all sorts of amazing and interesting work in forensic anthropology. She’s in England working her butt off and drinking more beer than I can dream of. And I frequently dream of beer.
This morning I got an email from her asking for help in her dissertation. It ‘s a survey and it takes ten, fifteen minutes, tops. Go here and help her out.
This isn’t a Chicago thing, so you only have to do it once and it doesn’t have to be early. However, you do have to do it.
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Paul Anka – Mr Brightside.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
Paul Anka – Mr Brightside.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object):
I wish I had something to add, but I don’t. I’m not even sure I like it all that much. It is, after one play, stuck in my head, but so was that stupid jingle about Pepperridge Farm Goldfish.
The Dirty Secret
I may have confessed this before, but I feel the need to do it again. For all of my professed “Irish Descent,” the basis of my family is Italian (or if my father is to be believed, Sicilian). We get together Sunday nights, eat, chat and tease each other in a style that is not northern European.
My dad was an only child, so i do not have a large irish family to compare this to. From what I remember of his cousins, aunts and uncles, the Gleason and Cody side of his family was rather dour–until the drinking started–while my mom’s family has this tendency to welcome everyone and anyone to the dinner table.
Hell, my dad’s family wanted him to be a Priest. I don’t think my mom’s family wanted her to be a nun. My mom may have contemplated it, but I think my grandfather told her no.
My mom’s family welcomed my dad with open arms. My dad’s family warmed to my mom quickly, but, my grandmother was a bit prickly. So was my aunt Margaret. While they both loved my mom, they were very protective of my dad.
When the photographer at my brother’s wedding said, “the immediate Gleason family,” we knew he meant the two of us and our parents. That’s what he meant when he called for Jackie’s parents. Tony and I do not, by default, think of the immediate family as just us. We think of this picture as our immediate family.
I’ve been out of town every Sunday for the past month, and I have missed my family something terrible. After seeing them again, I figured out that for all my Irish bluster, my family is still very Italian.
Blog as to-do list 2
1) Finish Intakes (4 left)
2) Look at Personal Statement for Grad School
3) Finish Treatment Logs for July
4) Finish Case Logs for July/August
5) Plan Feb/March Vegas trip.
6) Outline all my “Big” Ideas
As an aside, I will never, ever eat at burger king again. Ever. Its like vomit in the shape of a burger.
Ted Leo
I am trying to get my budget in control–that’s why I don’t order out, limit going out and I haven’t bought a comic book in forever. That being said, I done got me four tickets to Ted Leo on 10/12, and I have no problem spending that money, or the money I will spend in the inevitable hearing aid that will result from said show.
Update: I am retarded–10/12 is the show. not 10/21.
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