Mercy Killing: Aim for their Recaps

This blog was founded on the ideal of finding interesting concepts in everyday life.

you might notice there haven't been many posts recently...

Funnily enough, that's not due to any lack of things happening in the world, or even my awareness of them, big or small, but rather to the wealth of such experiences and the violent collision of said events with my sudden dearth of creativity.

I think it's fair to say at this point that those of you reading this blog for enlightenment, or even disembodied entertainment, are long-since disappointed, and if you have yet to desert, let me encourage you to do so now.

Family and Friends, here's a quick recap of what the hell I'm up to these days as my way of both apologizing (weakly) for not being in better communication, and to put your fears to rest that I am either working myself too hard, or morphing into a grad school recluse.

Hobby check:

Swing Dancing -  back to 2+ times a week, and starting a 3rd weekly gig soon

Comedy Writing - obsessed (unhealthily) with Daily Show / Colbert.  No other progress except (crowning achievement) "A Treatise on Pissing in Public" from Summer '08.

Knitting - 1 scarf finished, 1 hat in progress.

Drums - no comment, no progress, not much hope.

Racquetball - getting rusty.

Webradioblog - 23 episodes, no Fat Lady yet.  When it turns 30 it'll start to feel old. 

(actual) Jazz radio - Got the skillz, won't pay the billz, still addicted to it like... non-OTC pillz?

School Update:

Midterms - done

Term Papers (4) - getting started.

Thesis - ... check back in a few (more) months.

Expected Graduation - still May 2010 (watch out World, I'm getting back on the payroll... somewhere)

Professional Development:

Radio Station Manager - terminated, still in withdrawl.

Xerox/Scan Monkey - terminated with no remorse.

Book Publisher - 1 book (This is Ragtime) almost to print; 1 book (Early Ellington) in the works.

Webmanager - minimal, but continuing.

Internship with Radio Free Europe in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - pending; Summer 2009.

Personal:

Family - 1 brother married (London), 1 brother bought a house (OKC).  Otherwise, obsessed with collecting stray black cats.

Friends - growing cult of buddies in NYC, too many cool peeps to see everytime I go back to TX, Seattle, or OK.

"Domestic Partner" - I still miss having just a "girlfriend," but she is well despite being hundreds of miles away, and occasionally threatened with violence.

Week in Review:

Monday - Goodbye Beloved Shelley

Tuesday -  Hello Becky-Face

Wednesday - Watchmen movie screening in Times Square

Thuesday - Colbert Report taping (again)

Friday - Battlestar Galactica Finale 'Frak' Party at downtown NYC bar.

That's my life.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that you're too special to get summed up in 452 words.

Weber

::(lame) Texpatriot