tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-334458362012-02-17T02:11:24.289-04:00...offering half-baked solutions and suggestions to the pressing issues of our day...Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00880453197627741093noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445836.post-32517866084536829382009-02-20T11:36:00.002-04:002009-02-20T11:39:50.601-04:00

Dearest All-Generally, I believe that engineering solutions to environmental problems are not really solutions, but measures that improve local conditions so long as the work there remains diligent.With that in mind, and with an application to reefs in the Caribbean perhaps (?) may I present one solution now at work in Hawai'i:

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Dearest All,Another generous application of the definition "vacation" later, and I find myself successfully embracing the year 2009.So much to I've discussed, but will not bore you here. For another day (perhaps never). But in case you were wondering what they were, in no order or ranking:1) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service - Here in College Station, there are zero (that's 0)

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Dearest All,Good friend, fellow free-thinker, and nominal reverse-double inlaw Minter (our siblings are married) is enjoying the win of (I'm assuming his) Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series. Knowing full well his passion burns brightest for his hapless Flyers, I don't doubt for a moment that he'd rather see Lord Stanley making his way down Broad Street rather than the World Series trophy.

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Dearest All-I've grown lazy in the late summer of grilling and beer and hot days and nights, and so it's been months since my last post. My guess is that if anyone even reads this, it's by accident. I promise to return to my usual subjects soon (World Series, college football, general idiocy), but I feel a need to release my frustration at the state of American politics and the drubbing that

Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00880453197627741093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445836.post-1938068983448425322008-04-09T20:20:00.003-04:002008-04-09T20:43:16.772-04:00

As the wildflowers bloom here in Texas, transforming this most unholy of states from cold, windy, rainy, and dreary into a happy palette of vibrant purples, fiery oranges, and mesmerizing yellows (before again moving into the hot summer dreariness...), so has the annual spring-cleaning of my mind and body. I highly recommend it.It began over Spring Break, while house-sitting (and dog-sitting the

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Now I realize that it's well past the media cycle, and that, following the big "loss" of Texas by Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton in the primary last week, but it's worth mentioning two things: 1) Barack won more delegates in Texas than Hillary, due to the energetic horde that are the Obamaniacs; and 2) I'm not sure I can handle another 4 months of primary coverage. But enough about the second,

Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00880453197627741093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445836.post-59098019407405731992008-02-18T20:35:00.002-04:002008-02-18T20:42:29.199-04:00

Try it out:0.75 lbs. (or as large as will fit on the grill) your favorite fish fillet, skin still on.1 whole fresh ginger root, grated.1-2 whole green onions (chives), finely chopped.1/4 to 1/3 cup soyu sauce.1 packet white sugar (1 Tbsp.), 1 packet brown sugar.Wash your fish fillet. I cannot mention this enough. Then, spread the grated ginger, onions, and sugar until the entire top of the

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By the way the political machine is going, you'd get the feeling that the following things are going to happen by say, mid-June: 1) John McCain will win the Republican nomination and begin to unify a majority of prospective voters for the November election, and 2) Barak Obama will continue to gain support, win votes and delegates while Hillary Clinton will win the nomination. It's spooky.I

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Let's get right to the facts: Super Bowl XLII was outstanding. Though a low-scoring affair, you can't help but think that this game had many elements that will place it up near the top of all Super Bowls so far played. Like John Elway getting spun as he dove for the endzone in his Super Bowl triumph over the Packers in 1997, the Eli Manning somehow not being sacked then heaving the ball down

Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00880453197627741093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445836.post-27871524482817880252008-01-26T12:53:00.000-04:002008-01-26T13:14:03.011-04:00

Over time, or more accurately, because of time, you realize that you're getting older. Not necessarily old, but older. It starts with the little things, like perhaps watching half of a movie before realizing that you saw it once when you were 14. Although, those movie days were spent more sitting in the back than anything else. So maybe "seeing" the movie is just a technical term. But

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Admit it. Every time you find yourself walking through the grocery store or pharmacy, and pass the toothbrush aisle, you catch a look at those powered toothbrushes. And then you think something along the lines of: "Six bucks? Who the hell would spend six bucks on a toothbrush!" Well, to answer that riddle, me. I would buy a powered toothbrush. And here's why: I've always wanted to play

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In case you haven't been through Miami International Airport (MIA, for reasons that will become abundantly clear in a second), the only appropriate way to describe it is: war zone. Since I relocated my life and livelihood to a more Caribbean angle, I have had the good fortune of flying through Miami pretty much every time I travel, as 1) MIA is the hub for American Airlines, 2) American, for all

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Pac-10: 4 – 2 Invitees: Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, ucla, USCBowl Invitations: Pioneer Las Vegas (ucla), Emerald (Oregon State), Pacific Life Holiday (Arizona State), Bell Helicopter Armed Forces (California), Brut Sun (Oregon), Rose Bowl (USC)Bowl Invitations Rank: 3rdOverall Rank: 1st Again, I must admit that, as an alumnus of USC, I have a particular fondness

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*Note: This is probably being published prior to the BCS Championship Game. It's predicated on the idea that LSU wins ugly over Ohio State.Big-10: 3 – 4 (1 game remaining: Ohio State vs. LSU) Invitees: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, WisconsinBowl Invitations: Motor City (Purdue), Champs Sports (Michigan State), Valero Alamo (Penn State

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SunBelt Conference: 1 – 0 Invitees: Florida AtlanticBowl Invitations: R+L Carriers New OrleansBowl Invitations Rank: 11thOverall Rank: 7th I don’t have much to say about Florida Atlantic, who earned the SunBelt’s conference championship by defeating rival Troy in the last week of the regular season. Yes, I will call them a cupcake in the SEC nonconference buffet line (more on

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So a quick explanation: 64 Teams, 32 Bowl Games, 11 Conferences (plus 1 Independent). In the Spirit of All Things Ranked, I'll Go from Bottom to Top. Feel free to disagree or agree. I know that your opinion is no more valid than mine and so I shall be free to ignore it with obnoxious refutations or embrace it with obnoxious exaltations. Onto the Awards!(for each, conference name followed by

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(with much appreciation to Minter D. for the inspiration to change the blog to a more observatorial / philosophical experiment. You can read his great blog by clicking the link to the right...)The College Football Bowl Season is, to use the word that is most apt: an orgy. It's a feast inside a feast. A reason in a season full of reasons to sit on the couch with remote in hand to idly flip

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In an effort to become concise and relevant (aren't they the same thing?), I've decided to (partly) move away from blogging my weekly-to-monthly missives. Instead, I will, like pretty much any other media outlet around today, offer my thoughts on any number of subjects, time and space availability being my only limiting factor.But before I begin anew, a quick explanation for my 5 month absence:

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Dearest All-What a month it's been. The summer is all about July. August has always had a hint of the coming school year in my mind, and so I've learned to compress summer doings to late June (my birthday week, for example) and July (which, to fellow NLers, means Sailfest and Ocean Beach). By August, I get an itch to start playing soccer and find myself sniffing vinyl ring binders, trying to

Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00880453197627741093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445836.post-40221866076954412242007-06-21T15:58:00.000-04:002007-06-21T16:22:22.649-04:00

A quick recap about the previous 24 hours in the life of goose:with the cubs "in town" (i.e. in arlington, texas to play the texas rangers, owners of the worst record in baseball and current home of famed cubs slugger sammy sosa), me and good friend, classmate, and fellow cubs fan stephen b. of baton rouge, la., decided we should head on up for a game. note: we did know that the trip was 200

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Happy Juneteenth Day to everyone! Juneteenth Day (June 19) remembers the emancipation of slaves in the state of Texas in 1865. I may have to check, but I'm fairly certain that the Emancipation Proclamation had an effective date of 1 January 1863 (yep, it was 1863...). just another item in my growing list of "things about texas, texas history, and texans that makes goose shake his head slowly

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some of you may know that somehow or another, i managed to finagle a master's degree from a certain ivy league institution a few years back. more impressively, i managed to pull in an economics component into said degree. the degree of difficulty given my biological science background: off the charts.anyhow, this spectre of economic thought rouses itself every so often, and usually in manners

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Dearest All,As many of you know, I spent the past month traveling. Cayman Islands, New York City, France, Ireland, Paris, New York City, Connecticut, New York City, back to Texas. It's absolutely impossible to try to capture what was a tremendous month of work and play. And quite frankly, I'm still a bit exhausted by living out of a suitcase for 28 days. But rest assured, this past month may

Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00880453197627741093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445836.post-52311592066354485632007-04-26T14:00:00.000-04:002007-04-26T14:21:36.277-04:00

on to the shout-outs!happy Earth Day Five Shout-Out to my wondrous friends Brycer D. (a "Mav" statused friend... more below) of Palo Alto, CA and Sylvia F. of Harlem, NY. though my non-phone-callingness has been at all-time highs, i do wish that i was there with you two in SF last weekend. oddly enough, there was a conference there that i could have been at, but then i would have returned to

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dearest all-there's so much going on, so much to say, so little time to do it, that i'm either going to forget half of what i got to say or i'm going to make this entry so long that my four remaining loyal readers will die trying to get to the intermission...seriously, this missive has lots. and i'd be remiss if i didn't at least touch on the virginia tech tragedy and how it's shock waves were

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dearest all-so we've made it to the home stretch of my 7th first year of school! huzzah! and quite a first year it's been. but there's lots more this month, and suddenly it doesn't help that april is much shorter than march ("ask me about my 'march as the longest month in the world' theory!")here's a brief list of things left on the old "to-do" list:1) 2 data methods homeworks (this is the

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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

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dearest all-so while it may not be 15 march 2007 here (and by here i mean gloriously soggy east-central texas), it is 15 march 2007 somewhere (and by somewhere i mean gloriously exotic guam!) which means exactly ONE THING:HAPPY BIRTHDAY SKYLAR C.!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARIANNA C.!!!one whole year old today! kinda! as i mentioned in the previous space, don't worry about the particulars of being born -

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dearest all!so the weather is a'changing! hurray! and as several relatives inquired, the bluebonnets may or may not be a'blooming. i've googled them and am now on the lookout for the state flower of texas.however, the live oak is a'pollinating. thanks to the great care of dr. weldon, board-certified allergsit, i am currently allergy-free. awesome! i can't believe it! i just want to thank

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... so wouldn't you know that the very day i get my replacement phone (the fancy red Motorola Razr), that my old phone shows up and is sitting on my desk when i arrive.where was it? on the "bench" seat in the back of the department head's truck (think the back seat for those extended trucks). i had looked through said truck when getting dropped off but somehow failed to look on the seat itself,

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dearest all-i think i enjoy this "monthly" reporting sequence. it may indeed mean that fewer people will remember to read my drivel (if any still do?) and that means the original method of mass-mailing everyone was, from my perspective, infinitely more useful as i actually was able to keep in contact with several people who i'd otherwise lose to the gulf of time. and why is this important? well

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luck - n. the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life. good fortune.lucky - adj. happening fortunately; marked by good luckexample 1: anyone who wins a half-court shot contest.example 2: anyone who walks away from a nasty car accident.example 3: winning the lottery.example 4: goose's 2007 (thus far)To some people, you make luck by being in the right spot, getting yourself

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happy new year 2007!!!!super exciting, i know. 2007. it's been 7 whole years since Y2K was going to make my apple IIe skills irrelevant...quick apologies to the three of you who check this site more often than i do. can you believe that i actually forgot the web address? no, really! i did! wait... you're not disagreeing with me.so right now, its 28 degrees in bountiful college station,

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happy new year 2007!!!!super exciting, i know. 2007. it's been 7 whole years since Y2K was going to make my apple IIe skills irrelevant...quick apologies to the three of you who check this site more often than i do. can you believe that i actually forgot the web address? no, really! i did! wait... you're not disagreeing with me.so right now, its 28 degrees in bountiful college station,

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dearest all-what a vacation i've had! i actually wrote an entry for this publication while flying over the united states last week (from dallas to los angeles for the big USC/cal game) but it went on and on and basically, i realized that i had been writing not for your enjoyment but for the express purpose of not thinking about flying. which failed miserably since i wrote about how much i hated

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dearest all-it seems like it was just the other day that i was diligently awaiting my bedroom set and sweating away the 100-degree days and nights.wait. that's not right. it seems like so long ago! and we don't know if this is a good thing. suddenly, i am 2 weeks away from being in hawaii (almost to the hour!) and here's a partial list of things i still have on the table: 2 philosophy essays

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a "well, we looked like garbage, didn't we?!!" shout-out to the usc turnover margin. the team that led the country in turnover margin over the past 3 seasons gave up 4 yesterday in their 33-31 loss to oregon state. try as they might to tie it up with a 2-point conversion at the end of the 4th quarter (despite being down 33-10 midway through the 3rd quarter!!!) the trojans deserved the blocked

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dearest all-the cardinals finally cleaned up the ghost of detroit past a little while ago and of course, that means 1 thing: CUBS IN 2007!!!!despite:1) the fact that both me and good friend and sports authority nara w. of los angeles, ca agree that the cubs pitching staff is cursed, overworked, and destined to captain the titanic.2) the cubs haven't won a world series in... 98 years. and with 30

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HAPPY POWER-TOOLS-ARE-FOR-ME! shout-out to: my health insurance plan! as of 1 december, 2006, i will (again) be insured for basic health and dental coverage! now where was that fork and outlet i was going to play with?happy go-for-the-gold! shout-out to the triple-t of jersey city! he knows... he knows... and to think his dominance began with street fighter II...happy

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dearest all-this is a quickie blog hit. BOOM! RIGHT THERE!anyhoo, an appeal to all my journalism homeys out there making a dollar, don't turn into the following: tim mccarver, mike lupica, or any of the other blowhards who, despite watching the same game i saw (through a double-nap thursday night! Say YES! to sleep!), write up the most ridiculous things or (in mccarver's case, a career of

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dearest all-such was the excitement this weekend when fellow monk euge scored two free (FREE!) tickets to the big texas a&m / mizzou game at venerable kyle field. having never attended a big-12 contest before, i was fairly excited by the prospect, if only because being at a football game precludes one from studying or paper writing or GIS mapping. but to say i was pumped for it would be a bit

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dearest all-to everything, there is routine. no matter how basic the idea, or experienced the individual, a routine helps keep focus, momentum, and drive to some goal, whether it's waking up and going through "your morning ritual" or stepping out of the batter's box and nomar going through his complex tightening and retightening of his batting gloves. here, in quickdrivethru format, is my

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No SHOUT-OUTS!(with apologies to the classic movie "friday")Super Happy "Where You Been?!!" Shout-out to the ever lovely Stacy H. of Washington, DC. the good friend from freshman year is still co'chillin' in the foreign service gig and thanks to super-frosh friend Nara W. of Los Angeles, CA, got her back in touch. couldn't be more thrilled. especially b/c i haven't had a good giggle from

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dearest all-like the final box needing unpacking or the last book needing shelving, i can (almost) declare that i have moved in to my graduate life in toto. those dark early days in late august where i slept on a futon matress on the floor and had no place for anything except the pockets of floorspace around said futon are long gone. the unpacking should be done this weekend (i still have a box

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dearest all-happy equinox!today is hump day. the technical term is "wednesday" but everyone knows it as the day they, should they manage to get through it, can pop it in neutral (more or less) and enjoy the scenery as friday and the weekend approaches. but getting through the day? tough!which is why i'm glad i have some good friends. let's recount the last few days.so on saturday night, me

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hola! tis friday, tis friday, tis friday! woohoo!plans for this weekend: read some journal articles, come up with awesome plan to sedate and perform non-invasive surgery on fish (take that good dr. carr of guam! ooh... you work on people! that's easy! let's see you intubate a 35-cm long (forked length) mutton snapper, insert a 8Hz 7mm long sonar tag, and have the fish in the outpatient clinic

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It's hard to avoid or miss the fifth anniversary of the 9.11.01 attacks, even when you have your head tucked into books or your eyes glued to football. Everyone knows where they were. And I'm no exception. I still remember hearing it on the radio, all tucked into my blankets back at the Taft House, in that way you hear things when you're half-asleep. I roused myself once the radio station

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it's the Friday Shout-Outs Edition, Homey-omeys!With A Special Dedication to everyone in Bahama Bay Nation, a big-upzz rip-your-lines shout-out to DJ Kool for using his lyrics to stylize today's shout-outs!"Keep Making Noise!" Shout-out to Humberto, our bringer of goodwill today. Precisely at 9:15am, the cloistery went online. Side benefit to internet in the house (apart from that foul stuff

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a WTF shoutout to all high school math teachers! it's now certified. the majority of students in my lab sections are a bit uncertain in their math skills. to the point they confuse themselves over what happens when you add/subtract some number from zero.a happy humpday shoutout to Elibzeff B. of St. Thomas, VI. simply b/c i know she giggles when i say "humpday."a crazy, low-down hug-a-brotha

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americans have a fascination with making life easier. i haven't quite figured out this fascination with something that might be categorized as an effort to "modernize". why waste ten minutes of your precious time cutting tomatoes that end up being all pulpy and messy when you can get that auto-dicer that does it perfectly every time? as a part-time fan of late-night infomercials (from my

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first, a big "too soon, mate, too soon!" shout-out to the crocodile hunter. as you all know by now, steve irwin met the sharp side of a sting ray earlier today and died from the resultant trauma. all in all, i wouldn't have predicted that. after all, this was the guy who swam with hundreds of bull sharks, caught thousands of crocs, wrangled sea snakes (the most poisonous on the planet), and

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it should come as no surprise that usc crushed arkansas. in fact, it was such a blowout that 1) i don't feel bad driving 580 miles to the game (and another 580 back), and 2) we didn't even watch most of the 4th quarter.in case you're wondering, there is quite the contingent of usc alums / former faculty here at texas a&m. in fact, there's a sneaking suspicion that certain elements of the

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first off: big love to the good family relations with penn state university credentials. you know who you are. i read this morning that psu isn't allowing alcohol at tail-gates????!!!!!! is nothing sacred any longer? one of my best family-related memories is from the 1985 or 1986 psu-pitt football game. the one where pitt beat psu, in large part due to a really weak holding or illegal

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so it's saturday and i'm proud of three (3) things:thing the first: that i made it through my first week of school unscathed, more or less prepared for class each day, and still on top of demands and commitments to my time.thing the second: that i made it to the gym three times through said first week of school. unscathed. see "demands and commitments" above.thing the third: that i know when

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...the elation that comes with seeing a furniture delivery guy stopping outside your house. and only 1.5 hours beyond the end of the 4-hour window for delivery. on the 3rd official attempt to deliver the furniture. 14 days of floor sleeping no more! scratch one more from the hordes of the impoverished out there who bed on straw or mats or under the stars on the savannah (actually, that one

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...Or Just Living A Bachelor's Life (with exclamation point scoring!!!)Do you eat leftover spaghetti for more than 3 meals in a row, including breakfast?Bachelor's Life!Do you sleep on dirty laundry because your furniture hasn't arrived yet?Bachelor's Life!!Do you consider bacon & eggs & beer a dinner?Bachelor's Life!!!!!!!!Do you shrug off wearing a wrinkled shirt?Bachelor's Life!Do you sit on a

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First off, big love to the big bro, the sis-in-law, and nieces2. Drs. Shamus and Elisabeth C., along with the super cuteness that is Skylar and Arianna are settling in well in far-off Guam. But its good having a bro on the other side of the globe. Being a day ahead, he always calls with the day’s lotto numbers. We plan on making a killing. I will be seeing them again come Thanksgiving, as I

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The Lone Star State, Or Why Texas Is A Foreign Country"A good way to think of graduate school at Texas A&M is to think of it as a study abroad program. And if you don't know what I mean yet, you will. Just head on over to the Wal-Mart." --Courtney, 2nd-year Master's Student, Oceanography.There’s so many more tales from my 2000 mile drive from Connecticut to Texas, but I don’t want to bore you

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The End of the JournalsIt has recently come to my attention that my journal submissions, so beloved by some, enjoyed by several, loathed by scores, and instantaneously blocked by someone who shall remain nameless, has gone absent for several past months. Perhaps since December? I can’t actually recall. So starting school seems the perfect opportunity to switch over to a blog-style journal.Why

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...And welcome to my blog! We feel that this medium, already over-used by millions, is ready for one more self-important dose of "life as i live it." So welcome! Hurray!Time in Texas: 10 daysAverage Daily High: 99.9 FAverage Overnight Low: 77.3 FClass begins tomorrow. More stories to follow. --Goose

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