Hand care and linguistics

My hands have been exceptionally dry lately, especially my knuckles and pinky fingers. The solution? Lotion, my soft-skinned readers [note: please pronounce "skinned" as skin-ed]. As much of my time is spent back-handing wenches and punks*, I figure the least I can do is to have gentle skin.

*anyone know the male equivalent of a wench? For example, man-whore is the obvious masculine form of slut, but is wench purely gender specific?

Just when I thought the MN Daily A&E section couldn't get any worse...

...they run this article:

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/11/23/66286

What a moron.

I'm seriously tempted to write him a letter, but probably won't. I had the same urge when "Lawrence of Arabia" was reviewd; I got the distinct impression that the writer had no clue that (T.E.) Lawrence was an actual person.

states of mind

Finished watching I Heart Huckabees.

I thought it was funnier while...ahem...under the influence of...certain liquids.

The Crusades

For some reason, I have a hankering for studying the Crusades. Maybe it's because I'm taking "History of the Crusades" next semester, or because I just spent 20 minutes looking at the imdb forums for Kingdom of Heaven. Regardless, it's time to find some books to read.

Now, I've read a bit about the Crusades, and the one set that I own and also happen to like is Runciman's trilogy. Apparantly however, Runciman's work isn't respected by some, and so I'm curious about that too. Ah...literary criticism in history...so interesting.

This got me thinking about the notion of "unbiased" writings, but I can't articulate those thoughts at present.

*Disclaimer: I don't like the Crusades...any post on them is going to reflect that. But, I like to think I have a deeper understanding of them, so it's not the simplisitc, "it was Christians ["Catholics" if whoever is speaking is slightly more learned] attacking Muslims," reason for disliking them.

wolf in fleece-lined clothing

I bought a pullover with the zipper on the left side...what the hell? It was in the Men's section, and says "men's" on the tag, but somehow, zipper not on the right.

Sad thing is, I bought in on impulse. I had to find soccer socks, realized I needed boxers, and found myself next to a display chock full of pullover goodness. Important fact: the pullovers were zipped up. I selected a nice dark blue one, and was on my way. Got home, unzipped it, and to my horror found the zipper to be on the wrong side.

Back to the store I go to return it...

Why yes officer, that bottle of wine's open...oh yeah! That IS illegal isn't it?

Rest assured readers, I did not have a run in with the law, but I was reminded by my father that is quite unwise to transport open bottles of alcohol in the car. In case of accidents or pulled over, I'd be forced to endure a certain level of unpleasantness i.e. a potential night in jail. In the future, as per his suggestion and my own common sense, into the trunk it goes.

I can't stay on too long...I've been putting off a LOT of homework for a long time. I want t--scatch that, I know I need to do it, but I can't seem to motivate myself. There's a little voice saying, "yeah man, you can put it off...you're too cool for school anyways," and I can't get him to shutup.

Oh! And facebook now allows you to have multiple pictures! Oh boy! Jordan...it's time for another photo shoot.