Month: August 2003

1. Are you going to school this year?
No.
2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate?
I graduated from Cornell in 2002.
3. What are/were your favorite school subjects?
Anything computer related and functional, media analysis, and wine tasting.
4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects?
Physics, theory based computing courses, and I had a really hellish Anthropology course.
5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite?
I can’t honestly say there was one teacher that stood out far beyond all the others. Plenty were good, a handful were great, but there’s no one teacher that was better than all the rest.

As usual, I didn’t watch the MTV Video Music Awards. Nor will I watch the 1,244,281,729 back-to-back repeats of it. I mean, what a huge shock that The Song That You Never Saw The Video Of That Covered The Other Song You Never Saw The Video Of didn’t win. I fully expect They Might Be Giants to be nominated next year and everyone to think that’s totally legitimate. You see, They Might Be Giants do indeed rock, and they certainly make good videos, but if you ever see someone at MTV tell you that, they are high.
Katie turned it on for about fifteen seconds, and I saw Kelly Osbourne giving Duran Duran a Lifetime Achievement Award. Someone at MTV obviously has a good sense of irony.
In any case, there is one positive thing to come out of all of this. Due to a poorly executed attempt to be “shocking” and “hip” by Britney Spears, Katie has finally hit her breaking point and has purged everything Britney from the house. All MP3s, gone. Bookmarks, gone. Stages book, gone. Britney’s Dance Beat, actually we sold that back a couple days ago.
I can’t stop crying. Buckets of tears. OF RELIEF.

I am blogging this live from the New York State Fair.
Katie is enjoying her Pucker Snow Cone.
We passed by a booth in the Verizon Hall Of Technology that was for Alcoholics Anonymous. No one was there. I don’t think we’ve ever laughed that hard.
The rides are pretty terrible. The DDR machine is okay. The food is expensive. My feet hurt.
Katie wants me to add that she is drunk.
More news later. Oh yeah, don’t forget to check out Y31, where Jared has put into effect his PHASE CHANGE.