I’d just recently turned eleven. My parents were looking around for houses in Linden, Grand Blanc, and thereabouts. This would be my last year in Flint as a kid. My social life revolved around three things: the Nintendo, Dungeons and Dragons, and my bicycle.

– THE WEEKEND – Reading, writing, you know how it goes. Matt came over to watch the superbowl. Jess made some really great nacho dip, we dragged the TV into the living room, and ordered pizza. So that was cool.

On a lighter note, my friend Matt just forwarded me this. True, funny, short, and worth reading:

Detroit: Burning Questions, Easy Answers, by Detroit Free-Press columnist Michael Rosenberg.

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Jessica told me about the sensation surrounding the James Frey book, A Million Little Pieces, last Sunday. Sometimes it seems like my head’s in the sand over pop-culture events such as this, but I was glad that she apprised me, because it came up time and time again at New School the following week.

– HURRY! – It’s Friday! It’s Ferbruary! Unleash the fury of your Selves!
– TOMFOOLERY – I intercepted a message from ‘alan1’ in which he made mention of using this as a forum for tomfoolery. Not only don’t I mind such behavior, but I wholeheartedly approve of it.

Today is Candlemas, or the Feast of the Presentation of the Jesus at the temp. Although it’s officially been several weeks since Ordinary time began, there is a sort of subdivision of this time of the year into feasts as calculated by Christmas and the Epiphany, and feasts as calculated by Easter.

I find myself in the same position as Rolling Stone magazine was when they decided to endorse Gore over Nader for the 2000 election.

That is, I’ve always liked Punxatawney Phil. He’s got an up front attutude, and his response to his competition (which is so much Cialis to his Viagra) has been to ignore them as simply below his dignity.

One of my favorite months of the year. The best way to celebrate February (and Carnival season, simultaneously) is to be just a little bit more permissive toward yourself than you would be throughout the rest of the year. That way you’ll get out all of that tension you’re bottling up at the brink all year long, you’ll do it with a sigh of relief at the coldest and cloudiest moment of them all, and you can relax and ease your way into Spring and Summer.

– Once again, it’s Thursday, which means I’ll typically try to blitz through blogging so I can work on frantically reading and writing all day.
– WEATHER – It’s getting colder! Or is it? Or is it?
– FEBRUARY – Is International Friendship month.

Laurence Sterne

Third Impression: The stories progresses by means of its themes. This progression is very consistant, and since it is derived in all cases from either Walter or Toby’s hobby-horses (part of their importance in the novel overall) it provides a context and necessity for their continued conversation.