If you’re in Chicago, you should come to The Coffee Studio tonight at 7PM for the RU MFA Student End of the Semester Reading. Yours truly will be reading for the first time ever (eeeep!) and you certainly don’t want to miss out on that! I’ll even give you a preview–here is my limerick, which I will be reading (by request):

Unnamed

There once was a girl named Esley,

Everyone thought she was messly.

But that wasn’t true

she just didn’t have a clue

why people kept calling her Leslie!

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Oh Emmm Geee, this is like a million Klinkers!

Things I Live For: 5 o’clock shadows

Quote of the Day:“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” –Unknown (at least to me and the internet)

Do you remember the Box music video channel?  It was fucking awesome and I know me and my brother requested our fair share of videos on it.  For those of you youngins or unhip, it was a music video station that “you controlled.”  You could call in (unbeknownst to your parents) and for $1.99 or something request a music video.  And they had EVERY music video known to man.  In fact, it was pretty gangsta.  I definitely recall requesting D.R.S.’s Gangsta Lean(which is on my iPod and should be on yours too…)

This is kind of a shitty video and is apparently from the UK but you still get the gist and memories:

Here’s a video not only showing how awesome the Box was, but how awesome 1993 was.  (It loads a little slow but have patience, it’s worth it!)  Why are there no more music videos in the world??

According to Wikipedia, the Box was bought by those fuckers at MTV in 1999 and became MTV2.  I guess MTV decided they didn’t want anyone showing music videos. 

Pet Peeve of the Day: The demise of music videos

Quote of the Day: “Baseball is dull only to dull minds.” –Red Barber

With finals coming up, I am desperately wishing I was still in undergrad. I miss the days of simply having to take a comprehensive test of the past four months of material. These days in grad school, there are no exams, just 20+ page papers for all of my classes.  Booooo….  So as I long for the days of undergrad, I give you excerpts from a funny list I found called Fifty Funny Things to do During A Final You Know You Are Going to Fail (those were the best weren’t they? At a certain point you just gave up studying and resigned yourself to the C you would get in the class due to your lack of knowledge of the exam material. Sigh…):

Things I Live For: Undergrad

Quote of the Day: “To find a queen without a king, they say she plays guitar and cries and sings… la la la - Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn, Tryin’ to find a woman who’s never, never, never been born. Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams, telling myself it’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.” –Led Zeppelin