Next week’s Dead Week. Dun, dun, dun. In theory, Dead Week is a “just-lay-back-and-review” sort of week. In reality, it’s all ten-page papers, final projects, and last-minute pleas for extra-credit. So, how do you escape this stressful mania? Booze, drugs and mindless kid shows? Eh, that works. But, I suggest a Patch Adams approach and […]
Archive > April 2010
Brevity, As Usual
Theoretical readers of the Unwind blog, I apologize for the brevity and sparseness of my posts as of late. I’m afraid this will be another, but hopefully my last of the sort. I’m sure you all understand my plight at this point in the semester. In the meantime, as I prepare to battle this stack […]
Life Dropping: Freecycle
See what I did there? Life Dropping? Instead of Link Drop – nevermind. Let’s just move on. You might remember, folks, that your favorite internet dork got robbed. Sad, yes, but I’ve taken a few valuable life lessons from the whole ordeal, not the least of which is this: I’ve got a lot of stuff. […]
Can you read me now?
If you know me at all, you know I’m not a technology snob. My television is about 18 years old (seriously), I don’t have a Wii, my only iPod is a shuffle (and it was a gift), and I still can’t really comprehend how TiVo works. So it’s understandably not my style to judge people […]
The Best Pizza
I’m going off course this week. Isn’t the first time, but, hey, sometimes you have to be random. I wanted to talk about Doctor Who, and how he’s back. Thank you! But he’s yet to return to America. Sad day. So I’ll address that topic another day. I’m going to talk about JJ’s Pizza […]
Link Dropping: 750words.com
What’s that? I promised more iPad talk? Nonsense! We’ll be covering the concept of ‘daily pages’ today, wherein a lucky sort like you hammers out 750 words every single day for the next forever. You don’t have to go that long, realistically, but you’d be all the better writer for it, as the running theory […]
Demands for Spring
Greetings, Unwind readers (assuming you exist). Now that we’re in the last throes of the semester, when every second is critical yet all you want to do is sit around and merely exist, I’m finding myself growing increasingly listless. I’m a much better student amid the misery of winter, when there’s not much else to […]
STRESS.
Ahh, that most formidable of foes, that most predictable of predicaments. It seems every spring my life becomes plagued by stress; the responsibilities and requirements and tests and to-do-lists become so massive, so undeniably unconquerable, that my very being is taken over by the desire to crawl into a tiny hole and die. You can […]
Apple, Apple, Apple
Apple. So they released this thing the other day, right? The iPad. How dashing. And this new-fangled device, as expected, comes heralded as a game-changer, an expensive company’s expensive answer to the flailing failures of the netbook. I thought the netbook was doin’ just fine, personally, but you know how it goes. When Apple does […]
What the deuce?
For this week’s post, I have no criticisms. No words of wisdom, no wonderings, no thoughtfully pondered prose. This week I just have a question for you: What the deuce does this sign mean?? I’ve seen these things all over Norman, taped to lamp posts and telephone poles for at least a month now. And […]
