Dear Failure as a student,
I am writing to inform you of my availability to participate in mutual failure on this day, the 16th of May, 2010. As a failed student myself, my skills include the following:
~An inability to wake up before 4pm
~The ability to stare blankly at the computer screen for up to 8 hours [...]

I’ve collected a list of activities I’ve participated in since then that have made me wonder if perhaps I need to move off campus.

This comic notes: Its really not worth it. Thanks Toothpaste for dinner!

Among poets and literary figures, there was Alfred Lord Tennyson, among social thinkers, Thomas Malthus, among philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche, among earth scientists, Charles Lyell, and among biologists, Alfred Russel Wallace, who actually came up with the same idea of biological evolution, with supporting evidence gathered in Brazil and the East Indies, in the same year, 1858, as did Darwin.

For all my workaholic tendencies and ability to wallow in self pity for innumerable hours, I seem to always find time for some background TV. Lately I’ve taken to avoiding the news, my usual work/wallow backdrop, as I’ve come to have a sore spot when it comes to Politics and Policy. Todays selection brought with [...]

an oasis from the vile obscenity of the human condition…

Like your transformers lunch box in the fifth grade…

So I’ve become a nighttime blogger. A defense against my atrophying sense of humor and light-hearted nerdiness. Take from it what you will.