Every few months it seems I'm replacing the damn power supply for my Powerbook. Yeah, it's old but it's what I've got and there's no money to replace it. I'm starting to wonder, as I purchased yet another one today on eBay, if the problem's with my machine. Is it frying them? I don't know how I would go about proving this theory.

So instead of doing anything productive, we slept in. I made berry risotto oatmeal for brunch.
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We said goodbye to our friend Alessandra last night. She's moving back to Italy to put her newly attained grad degree in Industrial Archeology to work and live for awhile in the real world. Houghton is no place to accomplish that. Dinner turned out to be qu… Continue

I picked up a small bag of this at the Co-op. Sadly, my lunch consisted of a few bites of the bag and nothing else. I was preparing a ginormous dinner for later that night; Alessandra was coming over.

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If you are looking for a guaranteed way to gain weight and realize you've gained it when it's too late to claim it's "just water weight," then follow my plan* for success.

Start working from home, preferably a job that doesn't require you to meet anyone face-to-face, except for a trip or two every six months to meet up with your colleagues. This will ensure that you will never have to put on respectable clothing -- say, anything without an elastic waistband -- so you… Continue