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Amazing skies, Arrested Development, and Baseball

Today is a very nice day in the office. All the attorneys are either out today on professional business or simultaneously playing hooky and golf, so that makes it a little more relaxed atmosphere for us peons below. At least I don't have to run around acting like I'm busy, not to mention I can bum one of the nicer leather chairs. Bum in this context is not a pun.

It's been a really stupidly busy summer so far, between work, class, and doing some other part-time stuff on the side, but one of my classes is actually over on Thursday, so that'll take some of the load off. I think I mentioned it before, but I'm mixing a couple of songs for my musical dad, Jeff Rakes, and that's been going pretty well so far. Hopefully it'll be worth his confidence. Or something.

I was driving home Sunday night with a heavy case of the Sunday-evening blues and there was a pretty sweet sky off in the direction I was driving and a good song came up on my mix cd. It doesn't get too much better than that.

Arrested Development is flipping hilarious, I can't believe it got canceled. I'm an addict, so thank you very much, Luke Siler. If any of you know Luke, know that he is an expert intellectual-entertainment-recommender. Although he should probably work on my vocabulary a bit.

Going to see the Wilmington Blue Rocks play tonight. Only in Delaware can you buy baseball seats the night before the game and get box seats on the first row along the 3rd baseline. Every now and then living in the belly button of the United States comes through for you.

Should I buy it?: BAM!

This was a boring one. I'm sorry. Everyone have an awesome week, and hopefully your metaphorical attorneys are also playing figurative hooky.

Until round 2,

~Ben

Currently Listening Steady Groovin' By Soulive see related

Lazy Tuesday. Sort of.

It's unfortunate you can't tab from the subject line to the body line because of all the helpful HTML buttons in the way. Darn you, weblog programming advancement!

I'm at work. I transcribed things for awhile but stopped because there was no more to do. Then I shredded things for awhile but stopped because there was no more to do. Then I went out and did errands for the firm but stopped because, lo and behold, there was no more to do. I hereby declare the company line thusly. "Liguori, Morris, and Yiengst: We go until we have no more to do. Sometimes this takes as long as twenty minutes." Just kidding. Everyone works pretty hard except me, and even I work pretty hard. When there's more to do.

Things continue about the same. Physics and Calculus are continuing to be the joys we all know them to be, but physics will be over in about two weeks. It can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned. I'm starting work on a few mixes for Jeff Rakes at church, and that'll be a good thing. I'll probably learn a lot, so ten points for that.

Yay for first cigars, the slowly approaching end of physics, and, of all the terrible summer jobs I've had, being in the best one right now. Of the worst. As it were.

Until I shirk again,

~Ben

Currently Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) By J.K. Rowling see related

Slow days at Liguori, Morris, & Yiengst

From Jon Stewart's Daily Show about the emergencing signficance of blogs as a medium:

"Alright, Jon! I admit it! Three years ago, I killed a panda. Ling-Ling. Or the other one, I can't tell 'em apart. But in my own defense - my own defense, Jon - it was dark, I was drunk, and it was delicious. Sorry to steal your story, StevenColbertKilledAPanda.com!"

- Steven Colbert

Currently Reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) By J.K. Rowling see related

J.K. Rowling on Boys and Girls

"'Don't you understand how Cho's feeling at the moment?' Hermione asked.

  'No,' said Harry and Ron together.

  Hermione sighed and laid down her quill.

  'Well, obviously she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and she'll be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her feelings toward Harry are anyway, because he was the one who was with Cedric when Cedric died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and she's afraid she's going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because she's been flying so badly.'

  A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, 'One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode.'"

- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Okay, I'm a geek. But nothing like Harry Potter for relevant commentary on the continuous battle of the sexes. Ten points to J.K.