For the past week and a half I’ve been cleaning the office. Not a “I haven’t dusted in a while” cleaning, but a “I’ve been throwing crap into boxes and throwing boxes into the closet and fuck has the office turned into a shitpit” cleaning….

This past Saturday The Partner and I woke up extra early because 1) we’re insane and 2) it was a home game for Purdue football and that means Breakfast Club.
Breakfast Club is where tons of students dress up in costume and go to the bars to get stupid drunk. The bulk of them simply [...]

I just made a first payment toward my student loans! These are just my federal loans; the loans through my alma matar come due in March of next year. SCARY!
If I stick to the minimum monthly payments, they’ll be paid off in just a shy under eight years. EIGHT YEARS.
Excuse me while [...]

Tonight (i.e., some time between 10pm June 24 and 2:45am June 25), The Partner and I got together with two friends* of ours.
The interesting aspect of it all was our seeming difference; the truth was our similarity.
While some can acknowledge certain realities, others can acknowledge others’.
We edit ourselves to fit “appropriate” paradigms.

When I get intoxicated, I usually turn into a philosopher and a huge pedagogue. After six shots of hard liquor, I can solve the world’s problems.
The things is: it makes folks uncomfortable. I haven’t found a lot of folks who genuinely like talking politics, even though it impacts their daily lives.
Tonight, [...]

I highly recommend giving the documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes a view. It’s a free view through Google Video. It was produced and written by Byron Hurt and examines misogyny, violence, notions of manhood, and homophobia as re/presented in hip hop.

The commencement ceremony went smoothly. Unlike a lot of folks (more than you’d think), my cap stayed on my head the entire time (because I know of these things called bobby pins) and I didn’t trip walking across the stage, which was my biggest fear.
I don’t have a lot of photos from Saturday yet [...]