From the category archives:
It’s been a busy summer so far, so let me update you on a few things:
I moved. For the past year Emily and I were living in a townhouse. It was quite lovely. The whole townhouse complex was populated by other grad students and young professionals – a nice change from undergrads peeing off the balcony above your front door.
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We took Little Man, one of our two cats, to the vet today to be put to sleep. He had Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). Read the link if you want to know what that is, but basically it’s kind of mysterious and fatal, and you never really know for sure if they have it, and it’s rare. But it’s also the second time one the cats we’ve gotten from the Charlottesville SPCA got the disease, so apparently it’s not all that rare.
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Yes, it’s true. I am now officially a professional wedding videographer. I shot a wedding at Old Trail Golf Club in Crozet, Virginia near Charlottesville.
My wedding photographer, Jack Looney, knew I had some video experience so he referred the bride to me. She was looking for something simple and affordable, and it doesn’t get any more [...]
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Got to my local polling place right at 6 AM when voting was scheduled to start. I waited in line for about 6 or 7 minutes for the doors to open (by which time the line stretched half way around the block), and was finished in a little less than an hour.
And I got a [...]
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I’m going through a hard time right now. It’s a kind of seasonal depression I have experienced in recent years around this time, the start of the school year. It’s not the classes that cause it, though. It’s something else. Something much darker and more sinister. Something that every year descends upon the quite, peaceful town of Charlottesville, Virginia where I live.
It’s the undergraduates.
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This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.