Venial Sin

It’s been a while since the last post, pretty much because I’ve been dithering around a great deal about whether I’m actually mentally prepared (or not) to go back to Karachi. After much alcoholism and vacillation, I’ve realised–I don’t think I am. I mean, I can still do it if I had to, but I’d really much rather not. What a surprise, right? Ok, now I’m really mad. I wrote an extension to this blog last night, and it all [...]

Well, it’s pretty much settled…in my head at least. I’m going home. I realised earlier today that while I could potentially live with my brother subsidizing me for the next six months, I’d much rather do things on my own terms–go home, work for some months and apply to graduate schools. I don’t know if I’d necessarily get in to any of the programs I really want to go to, but I do know that at the very least I [...]

Made even worse for me since I’m friends with two of the professors mentioned in this article. I think that perhaps I shall have to reconsider academia… Professor of Desperation (washingtonpost.com)

As you may be able to tell, I put up ad/donations buttons on this site earlier today. There is a good reason for that though, as I will now explain. Because the whole work visa issue (I know, I’m babbling on about it AGAIN) seems unlikely to get resolved in the next week and a half, I’ve been talking to my brother a great deal about alternatives. His suggestion at this point is for me to apply for a change [...]

I got back at 2:15 in the morning on Saturday night/Sunday morning, from Local 16, a rather trendy, open-air bar/restaurant about two blocks away from my current apartment/house. After the Redheaded Wench announced her intentions of going to bed, I decided that it would do me good to get out of the house, and wandered on over to meet with the Bisexual Yalie, the Erudite One, the Tall Shrink, the Scot, and the Strong Silent Guy; all of them are [...]

So I’m well and truly fucked to a fare-thee-well. Today is officially the end of Week 2; I have just under two more weeks to find a job. It says something about my confidence that I’ve already started wording the advertisement to have someone take over my lease. Oh, and been asking my foster brother if I can store my library at his house in Virginia, since there’s no earthly way I’ll be able to carry things home. I keep [...]

One of the few things I have ever read, written by another person, which makes me proud of the fact that I was a “useless” English major. Read it. It makes a lot of sense. The writer, in fact, is a recapper for Television Without Pity, one of the rare websites that I happen to respect and love fiercely. The Grub Report – A la Carte

Something that has made me extraordinarily happy today (and no, it’s not finding a job, but it’s a rant against Bush, which is always nice). Enjoy, my pretties. Shut Up And Say “I Do” Rage against those scary gays and invoke an angry God — it’s BushCo’s “Marriage Protection Week” by Mark Morford Did you hug a priest today? Run from a scary homosexual person? Coo over a copy of Bride’s magazine? Fall on your knees and thank God Almighty [...]

I think that this whole blog thing is rapidly turning into an addiction…but I can’t make myself stop! I finally saw the Redheaded Wench today, for the first time since…Friday? Saturday? Something like that. A phone call from her woke me up, as did the suggestion of a free lunch, but I (for the life of me) could not get myself together to actually eat anything, and wound up basically vegetating on the couch while we chatted. And much to [...]

The Erudite One just sent me a series of text messages from Lizard Lounge, which apparently “sucks tonight”. Of course, in my world, that counts as major motivation for attending. I never did wind up finishing the tale of my day; the Turk, the Farmboy and He Who Loves Brown Men decided that they were going to wander over to Tyson’s Corner to buy some last-minute items for the Turk’s return trip to Turkey this coming Wednesday. Said trip saddens [...]