Toyochin de spinachdip, whom I don't know except by his terminally right-on posts over at Bigsoccer and chronically interesting LES-based blog, opines that in blogging, consistency is more important that quality. Couldn't agree more, though I'm thinking that TPC is scoring pretty low on both counts lately. Rather than continue the magnum opus that took me two hours over five days last week (because I've come to the conclusion that few things are more grating than someone blogging about how their blog sucks) let me keep it short and sweet. Shorter. More frequent. Posts. Here.
Like him, I'm also betwixt and between about what this blog is supposed to be about, though I suppose I made that overwhelmingly apparent last time around and you don't need to read it again. Also, I'd love, and I mean love, to get a redesign on this thing, too. Unfortunately my web-workin' skills aren't up to it. But if anyone feels like working something up out of the good of their heart...

Three days left in the quarter; two papers, an exam and a presentation to complete. It's as good as done. End of the week sees me driving back east for the last of my best friends' weddings; and weather willing, a date with the Jersey Shore on Sunday, before I go home to tackle (literally) the new dogs. It's either that or Metro vs. DC in a bizarre 6 PM Sunday kickoff - and while I'm loathe to give up a Metro game against anyone, but especially that thuggish scum from that swamp-ridden hellhole called our nation's capital, the tug of the shore is awfully strong when you've been wedged this deep in southern Ohio this long.

But not so long that I can't appreciate that the Appalachians are a pretty damn fascinating place. Caught most of this PBS documentary yesterday afternoon; I'm a sucker for history in general, and becoming more of one the older I get. As an outsider, I really do want to know what this place is all about, and that doc was a decent, if not overly deep survey. Just about everyone I know here is from somewhere other than here, as are the majority of folks who study here, and to be honest we're all a bit too unkind about it at times. But oh look; songs:illinois put up three tracks from the documentary soundtrack. Check 'em out, buddy.


Going back to the matrimonial rite; if you're single, Kem at Critical Realism bets you'll get married before he does - and he's putting money down on it. Go get him, ladies - and gift me some easy money.