so it goes

Update on the Umbrella Saga

(Is this turning into an umbrella blog? I don't know if those even exist...)

K: I lost my umbrella this morning
J: maybe you have a subconscious urge to minimalize to 1 umbrella each
K: I think a subconcious objective is to slowly supply the world with free umbrellas
J: umbrellas for all!!
you're like the johnny appleseed of umbrellas
spreading little protective bits of love wherever you go
(and I just do it with free NYC transit condoms)

Aimlessly silly

All day today I've had Simpson's the song "See my vest"* stuck in my head.

....Made from real gorilla chest...

...These white slippers are albino African endangered rhino...


*A parody on the Beauty and the Beast song "Be our guest"

Lost in Translation?

K: Do you want me to hook you up with some Japanese candies?
A: Yeah, if you can find vegan ones. We have these marshmallows made with agar-agar but others say gelatin-beef.
K: Yeah, they have plenty of seaweed over there and not much land for sad little pigs and cows
K: We'll make sure they're vegan.

Later that evening...

.....Well, how about you just motion to the candy and oink questioningly?....

King Boring and Queen Fabulous

I just found out that my new home is a five minute walk from a place called King Boring Field.

No Joke. Doesn't that sound like someone asked a six year old to name the place?


After searching on the internet for a while, I discovered that C. King Boring was a Dearbornite and the owner of the Detroit Gems basketball team, who played for one year with that name and eventually became the LA Lakers.

Continuing to read about Dearborn, I learned that it may be the only city that owns land in another state. We own an apartment complex in Florida. How extremely odd.

let us have big hearts and rational words

It has been quite a dramatic year. And I do mean both interpretations of the word: exciting and full of drama (and drama).

I'm building up quite the experience in crisis intervention.

Internal Argument or Sometimes I can be very silly

K: Why are all of these glasses dirty?!?

K: Have you been washing dishes without your glasses again?

. . ...

K: I don't like wearing glasses in the morning :p

This just about sums up our relationship

Mom: You know that house that we own and rent in New Hampshire?

K: The one you were planning on selling to pay for my college and never did? The one I keep telling you to sell since housing prices are probably at their peak in the area?

Mom: Yeah, well I read in the paper that housing prices may be at their peak in the area so I think we're going to sell it.

K: Well I'm glad you finally made a decision.

Mom: Not making a decision is still making a decision.

K: ?

K: Well I think it's a very good idea to sell since you may have been spending more money on maintenance than you've actually made in renting it. Plus, it is probably a good time to invest your money in some other medium than the real estate market right now.

Mom: Yes, it is a very good idea to sell. And we're not even going to have to pay capital gains tax because we'll be buying a similar rental property with the money from the sale.

K: I need to go now...

rhyme and repetition

Telling myself that I love math must be working; I was really excited today to learn that my Stats class will be teaching R.

first day of school

I am a misfit engineer, a wannabe policymaker, poet, sage masquerading as a student who is confident and enthralled in mathematics masquerading as an undergraduate liberal arts kid trying to get into french 101.