http://www.paperhurts.com a comedy of errors, or how iranamok in the college of perpetual indulgence Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:41:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little while ago, the very talented and cool Steph Auteri interviewed me for a regular Nerve advice column called "Dating Advice From..." and mine was, you guessed it, "Dating Advice From...Engineers."  I'm on the second page, and there is even a horribly unflattering head shot of me included in ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/12/dating-advice-from/ I've been thinking about writing a little about Facebook for awhile now, and finally I've been spurned to action; The Doorman has an interesting post about random people from his past whom he has become friends with via Facebook.  This is very timely because I've just received a barrage of ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/so-called-social-networking-part-1/ Catherine mentions self-censoring in her latest post, which is something I've been thinking about lately due to the fact that I've noticed I'm suddenly getting some non-me traffic from where I work.  I never use people's names, however, so I guess I'm OK still bitching about work now and then, ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/reason-number-579-i-dont-date-coworkers/ My trainer is a singer/actor in addition to be a sports/fitness fiend, and this Friday night is opening night of his latest play, and I'm PSYCHED - it's South Pacific!!!!  South Pacific combines three of my favorite things - musicals, Michener, and Hammerstein. The Operahouse Players are performing November 14, 15, ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/plugging-my-trainer/ [caption id="attachment_183" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Ploman glares at me for not closing the sliding glass door"][/caption] It's the 12th.  Wrath is coming out at midnight.  Ploman and I are currently watching movies, waiting for that magical time to hit so we can head to the game store and pick up our copies ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/hanging-with-ploman/ Back in this post I mention some of the annoying habits people have of not reading their email.  I think it's becoming a pandemic, and it's getting worse.  Reading email apparently takes too much time so it's easier for people to just call me and essentially ask, "can you please ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/l2read-or-rtfq-part-2/ Catherine the Great and I, our first year in college.  Our hair is wet because...well that's a fun story. She and I both were stressed out.  She, much more than me...her first rugby game, she broke her wrist.  I still had tennis to destress me.  So, her mom put her up ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/sidney-catherine/ This weekend I went car shopping with my best friend, Ploman.  There was a giant sale at one of the local dealerships, and he had seen online that they had an '02 Civic with 60k miles for $11k.  I told him he had to take me with him because I'm ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/baby-you-can-drive-my-car/ You'll notice in my blogroll that I have a few medical-type blogs that I read (they're great reads, check them out).  I'm actually fascinated by medicine, and my family is full of medical-type people; my mother and aunt (father's little sis) are RNs, my aunt (mother's little sis) is a ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/academia-just-isnt-my-bag-baby/ I have to link you to Catherine's post on meeting Obama...also, I love this poster she has, check it out: Part of me is curious...do you think if Bush hadn't been such a sucktacular president, that Obama would have won this election?  I know it doesn't matter - what matters is ... http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/11/catherine-met-obama/