E, Miles, and I are back from Christmas in Maine. It was a slightly scaled back Christmas (our family has a long history of wretched excess) and I came home with a pile of books, music, and food (including a bunch of chocolate & 2 loaves of bread). I am working my way through all [...]
I may wait to get Walk Hard on Netflix (there are so many good movies I need to see) but I like John C. Reilly in just about every movie. Here he is on tour (as Dewey Cox) promoting Walk Hard:
My parents send me this message at least once a year (via Daily Words of the Buddha):Yo mātaraṃ pitaraṃ vā,jiṇṇakaṃ gatayobbanaṃ –pahu santo na bharatitaṃ parābhavato mukhaṃ.
Though being well-to-do,
not to support father and mother
who are old and past their youth
–this is a cause of one’s downfall.
E & I have been busy with the end of the semester. She’s making students sweat and I am doing some sweating. Right now I have one 4-6 page paper to go and E has one exam to give.
Last weekend we spent an unusual amount of time in Durham. We really procrastinated on buying tickets [...]