balancing an egg and other ways to amuse the irish

dearest all-

and a happy spring solstice to everyone! i've already celebrated by successfully balancing a raw, uncooked (refrigerated) egg on its end, as urban legend dictates. what was extra exciting was that brother euge, gallant roommate and fellow monk, had never heard of this and, given the choice of watching me balance said egg or writing a quick review paper for a topic that sucked eggs for a class that sucks dozens of eggs, he chose the former. it was a scintillating good time! for at least five minutes...

since people have been clamoring to hear about the monastery's st.patrick's day here in glorious texas, i will oblige. we didn't do anything.

okay, that's not exactly true. as mentioned in this space previously, i had a wonderful guest stay for the weekend, having turned down the opportunity to party out on st.croix and their stx. pat's parade. we had a great time, bbq-ing, riding horses, going to a nice fancy dinner (and promptly breaking the lenten rule of 'no meat fridays' with a delicious chateaubriand for two! yum!), and watching a bit of usc basketball (their magical ride continues after the blow-out win over texas on sunday...). somewhere in all that was a departmental st.pat's party. 1) we made a great guinness stew. 2) we went to party where they had great corned beef. 3) we went home sometime around 9pm. including brother euge, who has been fighting a terrible stomach bug, including suffering through bouts of illness that leave me wiping tears from my eyes after fits of convulsive, juvenile laughter. so that was it. fairly amazing how sedate it was. i trust that you, dear reader, made up for it.

but now, break is over and we're back to the grind. school ends in just 6.5 weeks. and somewhere in that time are a bunch of assignments and papers, including one that got taken to the woodshed last night during a massive editing session. joan rivers has had less work done on her than this badboy. and so that's where i now turn my attention. stay tuned for some late march shout-outs, an autopsy of the ncaa tourney, an idea on how to improve sports on television, and the start of cubs baseball!

--goose