It’s in the contract

My wife buys me Lucky Charms because she knows it’s a condition of my love.

For those of you who don’t get it

In tonight’s Writing for the Web class we were asked to find a YouTube video, embed it and write about it.

Unfortunately, we were told not to come up with any 2girls1cup or Rick Rolls, so instead I picked a video that details, in simple language, the electoral process for the U.S. presidency, titled Electing a US President in Plain English.

Catch-up

I’ve been a little busy lately, and blogging has taken sort of a back seat to real-life stuff, but this isn’t going to be a “sorry for not blogging!” post. Instead I’ll spend the time catching people up on what’s been going on.

Ivona, my wife, moved up to Amherst a couple days earlier than expected, last Monday; she had been working on Martha’s Vineyard after I left, and I was going back every weekend to work. Now we’re up here full-time and starting to settle into our apartment (read: now that she’s here I have to get my shit together and actually live like a real human being). It’s pretty exciting for us, as it’s the first place we’ve lived together that is completely ours and we are financially independent of everyone for the first time together. It’s a little scary, and spending hours upon hours in Bed, Bath & Beyond, the mall and mattress stores is a little tiring, but after much time putting together Ikea furniture and sorting through boxes, we’re getting there.

Another election…

Another substanceless debate.

Don’t get me wrong, I watched it, and I like to watch the debates, but I’m not an “undecided voter,” and I know I’m watching the debate to see my candidate stomp the other candidate. John McCain is not going to impress me enough at this point to earn my vote, and I don’t watch it to find out what his platform is.

I also don’t expect politicians to stay on topic or answer questions completely, but this debate more than any other left me disappointed for many reasons; it was tame, uninteresting posturing, and at least in other debates I’ve seen they brush upon the subject they’re supposed to be talking about.

Good times at Rao’s

I spend too many hours a week either at Rao’s or the library, writing papers or doing computer science projects. It’s a big departure from previous years of being a student, during which I could scarcely be bothered to interrupt my social life, or any other aspect of my life, to actually study. Taking a year off and driving a garbage truck gives you some perspective, I guess.

Anyway, aside from doing more school work than I ever have before, I’ve been spending more time with my brother than I have since high school. As twins, it’s been sort of strange that since we both ended up at UMass we drifted apart a lot, having different groups of friends, being involved in different activities, and studying different things, but it made sense in a big way. Everyone always says “Wow, I wish I had a twin,” or they ask me what it’s like. There are cool things about it, and having an automatic best friend who was always around was, for the most part, a good thing. I think when we got to college, though, we had this need to go out and see what else was out there, to see what life was like with our own, separate friends and not to share everything. So, we didn’t hang out as much and I was happy about it in a lot of ways, and we became very different people in many respects (and I’m obviously the better of the two).

Beauty and the Beast

How’s that for a cheesy headline?

In today’s class, we were asked to spend a few minutes perusing the new site, The Daily Beast. I’d heard of this mentioned, either at the Daily Dish, Wonkette, or BoingBoing, I can’t remember which, but didn’t get around to checking it out until now.