My goal of getting back into academia - kinda stymied right now. Talked with my old grad school advisor, who advised to keep doing what I'm doing, and try a couple of new things. So, we'll see.

Bumbershoot is a Seattle music-arts-spoken word festival. At some point (before my time there), it used to be free. Then cheap. Then not quite as cheap. Then it almost went under. Now, I think it's owned by LiveNation, and there's some sort of dynamic pricing on day-of tickets.

Saturday. I know I will need at least one day to recover and pig out.

I've decided not to go to Bumbershoot. Woo hoo!

Sympathies.

Yay! I'm doing Beat the Blerch, too. Signed up for it last year, but my allergies were still out of control. Looking forward to it this year, even if I end up walking most of the route.

I'm back on the treadmill, although I haven't been able to crack 1.8 mph yet. Then I realized that I had been forgetting to warm up, even the least little bit. So, I will try that tonight.

Dang.

I made slow cooker Cuban pork using a bone-in pork shoulder and a recipe I got from a blog called Magnolia Days. Came out very nice - had that plus black beans (from a can, enlivened with some of the pork broth & marinade with which I cooked down a bit of mirepoix that went into the beans). I still have quite a bit of…

Excellent! Having a strong, supportive peer group is so important.

Political philosophy courses tend to be taken by political science majors,and political science majors come in 4 shades:

I think he's fairly cromulent!

Okay. I've remembered to watch a couple of episodes of Lucifer. The one with the pick-up artists - eh, okay. But I just watched "A Priest Walks Into a Bar" and … OKAY. That was intriguing. Not mind-blowing, but … yeah, I'll remember to watch more, I think.

I've looked forward to this for decades. Thank you, Criterion! And thank you, D'Angelo, for a nice write-up.

I'm not around much in these parts, so I may have missed the news but - what's going on with Squanchy?

Upvoted in sympathy, not agreement. And as someone who ended up taking a co-worker on a free trip to New York City once, I DO sympathize.

Ack.

My geek, a software engineer and statistician, cannot endure a single episode of NUMB3RS. Every episode we tried, something would set him off. I finally just sent him out of the room when I'd watch.

Oh, it hit syndication last year - it's been airing on TNT now and again at weird hours.

I'm sad, but I'm okay. It's been a decent run.