Dylan Hears a Who

You need to listen to this. It’s hilarious.

Link from bookshelves of doom.

Overheard in New York

Teen girl #1: So, what book are you looking for?
Teen girl #2: Well, whenever I get stoned I get paranoid that I’m getting dumber, so last time I got high I came here and read a giant stack of philosophy books, and I really liked one of them.

–Barnes & Noble, 82nd St

That sounds like something I would have done back in the day.

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I keep getting comment spam (200 per day), but I can’t seem to do a blanket change on past posts to make them closed to further comments. I can make it so that all future posts are closed to commenting, but it seems I have to change each past one individually. I don’t have that kind of time, really. It’s just getting so annoying having to sift through each batch of comments to find the two that are actually my friends, and not someone trying to sell me penis pills.

I also keep getting hundreds of bounceback emails each day, which means that my address has been captured and is being used for spamming purposes. This is really annoying. 

If anyone has any advice, could you please email me? I’d appreciate it. And I’m not getting rid of my address. Why should I change my name, when they’re the ones who suck?

Grr.

No, honest!

I’m in the computer lab. I’m sitting next to an Abe Lincoln impersonator. His name is George. How cool is that?

Better late than never?

Right. So, I’m about three weeks in to the new semester. We started on the 29th of January. Here’s the low down:

• Taking two classes: Oral History and Preservation Management
• I love both professors. If I can get (and keep) my act together this semester I’ll probably learn quite a lot from these two people.
• I’m dealing with mystery illness. Well, not really “illness” I guess, but I’m vaguely unwell. I’ve been feeling vaguely unwell since October. Then I caught the Whoop-like thing. I haven’t quite sprung back to my normal self. I haven’t felt normal since September. It’s weird. I might have a vitamin deficiency or something. I am trying to get a doc’s appointment for this week. I’ll try for Friday. Hopefully I won’t get Dr. Dick-for-a-heart (ew) this time.
• Working on a fun project inspired partly by my Oral History class and by NPR’s sounds thingy. You know, that little segment where you send in sounds of something? Well, I’m recording myself doing stuff. Just whatever’s going on at the time I happen to remember that I want to collect some recordings. It was supposed to be a daily thing, and I’d post it on the blog, but well, um, I have about four so far. Yeah, not doing so well with the daily thing. But hey! It’ll be neat once I get around to posting them, right?
• I’m secretary of SCoSAA (Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists), but that’s not very much work. We only meet four times this semester, but we have a few neat things going on. A visit to MIT Archives, resume workshops for Archivists, and I’m going to see about a couple of other tours that might be of interest to the group.
• Speaking of SAA, I need to renew my membership. Oh, and join NEA (New England Archivists). I keep forgetting about that.
• Haven’t been doing anything crafty. I haven’t really knit since Christmas. See? I told you I’m feeling vaguely unwell. By the time I get home, I don’t feel like doing anything fun, so my craftiness has fallen by the wayside. I’m able to go to Stich-n-Bitch this semester, so at least I have a reason to keep some sort of project on campus for those evenings. I’ve been reading on the train, instead of knitting.
• Speaking of reading, I’m trying to do 52 books this year. I tried to get ahead in January, and then I’ll pick up the pace again in the summer. I think I’m on book 11 so far. I think that’s a good pace. Most of them are silly YA books, so nothing too taxing.
• I got a new computer. It’s running Vista. I’m not sure I like it. The notebook is near the lower end when you consider hard drive capacity and processing speed, but I hope it will be good enough for school. I need to install a few programs to make it more fun (Photoshop, etc), but it’ll do for now. I think it would prefer I ran XP instead of Vista, but that’s what it came with, and I don’t know if I have disks for XP lying around. We’ll see.
• I want winter. Actual winter. You know, the kind with snow? That would be fun. We were supposed to actually get some last night, but it’s just a dusting, with some ice mixed in just to be a pain in the arse. I miss winter. It’s been cold, though, so at least there’s that.