Apologies, Pt. II

Apologies once again for the lack of posts lately. It's been sort of a tumultuous couple of weeks.

I moved into a lovely second-floor apartment about a week and a half ago, and everything associated with that has been a time sucker. Plus work. And a couple of extra-curricular activities.

We (me, El Gato, and Rufus) seem to be pretty well settled in here. I can't believe I signed a twelve-month lease. It was something I had to force myself to do. It's time to give up the hope that I'll need to pack up and leave in the middle of the night to scurry up to Baltimore. It isn't happening and I think I'm coming to grips with that.

Anyway, the apartment itself is nice. Plenty of room for Rufus to run around and be reckless. El Gato has his own closet in the extra bedroom/office. The living room/dining room/kitchen area is pretty open so I can hear my music/podcasts/audiobooks well in most of the house. It's a win.

Arts! I'm going to a couple of College of Arts events this week:

Wednesday: The School of Theatre & Dance is performing "100 Saints You Should Know", which looks incredibly awesome. http://theatreanddance.arts.usf.edu/content/templates/?a=876&z=72

Thursday: Lowry Burgess, a prof from Carnegie Mellon, is giving a lecture on space art. I will be listening to Cave In that day.

It's been a long time since I've indulged in what USF has to offer arts-wise, so I'm really looking forward to those.

I also picked up a couple of really interesting books last night:



and



No, I have not read Jurassic Park lately.

Hello, November.

Sorry for the lack of posts, I've been movin' (movin' on up!) and workin' and whatnot. I'll post more soonish, but I wanted to say something quickly to ensure both of the people that read this junk that I am still alive.

I AM STILL ALIVE.

Verizon guy comes on Weds.! Counting the days.

love. love.
bradley.

Thoughts on "Dawn of the Dead"

Thoughts on the 2004 remake of George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead":

1. If you watch the end credits, you'll see that they make it to the island but they all die. This makes me sad.

2. Watching the end credits also forced a Disturbed song into my head that now refuses to vacate. This also makes me sad.

3. The story was better in the remake than the original. This makes me happy.

So, to sum things up:

:) = 1
:( = 2
Overall: :(

I wish there was a baseball game tonight.

Reading Group?

I am going to start reading John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany this week and it would be kinda cool to read it with a couple of folks. It's a really good discussion book and we can all smile together when we recognize lines from Jimmy Eat World's "Goodbye Sky Harbor" in the book. Any takers?

Playoffs.

So, just to recap... in round one of the baseball playoffs, I picked the following:

Twins def. Yankees
Red Sox def. Angels
Cardinals def. Dodgers
Rockies def. Phillies

Reality, however, disagreed with my predictions and I got EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE PICKS WRONG.

In the second round, I picked the following:

Angels def. Yankees
Dodgers def. Phillies

And, of course, the Phillies beat the Dodgers last night to advance to the World Series. And, OF COURSE, the Angels are down 3-1 in their series with the Yankees and could lose the series tonight.

My quandry: I would really prefer to see the Phillies (or anyone) defeat the Yankees in the World Series, but I do believe the Yankees have the better team. Should I pick the Phillies and hope I'm due for a win? Or do I learn from my complete and utter postseason prognostifail thus far and pick the Yankees, knowing that simply by choosing them to win, the baseball gods will swing the fate of the entire series against me?

Life is full of important decisions. This is one of them.

Angioplasty

Mom's having another angioplasty this morning @ St. Joseph's... if you're the praying/thinking type, I'd really appreciate any prayers or thoughts you could send her way. Thanks.

Happy Tuesday.

Oh, and...

...I want to write a book.