It’s the end of the world as I know it, and I feel strangely ambivalent.
Let’s see . . . I’m still married to Amy. I still drink beer and play videogames. I still wear tropical shirts whenever possible. I continue to eschew red meat. And, oddly, I’m still pretty darn happy.
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Dispatches From The Front Yard – Day 8
Posted in Destin, Lafayette, tagged Destin, Lafayette, work on January 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Anguiano Held Hostage: Day 65
Posted in Amy, Held Hostage, Lafayette, pets, tagged fish, Futurama, Held Hostage, Lafayette, Lavender Tom, parents, pets, plants on October 12, 2003 | No Comments »
It’s been a gray and overcast week. We’ve had a bit of rain but mostly it’s just been threatening. The sun’s been out today for the first time in several days, but mostly I’ve spent it inside. My daily routine consists primarily of trying to keep Amy on task with her thesis. Her classes [...]
Anguiano Held Hostage: Day 58
Posted in Amy, Greg, Lafayette, Rants, work, tagged adulthood, Amy, aphorisms, Lafayette, parents, Rants on October 5, 2003 | No Comments »
I must admit that I’ve been putting off writing another installment of this series, mostly because I’m a lazy bastard. Sorry about that. However, I am today motivated by that most overriding of factors: parents. In fact, they should arrive just an hour or two after this is written, bringing with them a truckload [...]
Anguiano Held Hostage: Day 49
Posted in Amy, Lafayette, Rants, coffee, tagged coffee, Community Coffee, Held Hostage, Lafayette, Mello Joy, Rants on September 26, 2003 | 1 Comment »
Hello to everybody! Miss me? Well, at least you could be kind enough to lie about it. Bastards.
The word today: coffee! I’ve got a cup already, thanks, but feel free to go pour some for yourself. I’ll wait ‘til you get back. Mine needs to cool a bit, anyway.
I’ve noticed that local [...]
Anguiano Held Hostage: Day 39
Posted in Held Hostage, Lafayette, pets, tagged Held Hostage, Lafayette, pets on September 16, 2003 | No Comments »
It’s been a quiet week here in Lafayette. Of course, I had to zip out of town midweek to Fort Walton but everything seems to have sorted out. Did I miss anything while I was gone? Did we have another tax cut? Well, anyway, now I’m back and returning to my regular schedule of [...]
Anguiano Held Hostage: Day 31
Posted in Held Hostage, Lafayette, Rants, work, tagged Held Hostage, Lafayette, Rants, work on September 9, 2003 | No Comments »
Hello everyone, I hope this letter finds you hale and hearty. I had initially hoped to churn out these newsletters/updates/desperate-pleas-for-psychiatric-treatment about twice a week, but so far I’ve only sustained a weekly production rate. This is, of course, due to my busy schedule. To steal a line from Groucho Marx, there have been so [...]
Anguiano Held Hostage: Day 15
Posted in Amy, Held Hostage, Lafayette, pets, tagged Amy, biology, birds, fish, Held Hostage, Lafayette, pets, Shemp on August 23, 2003 | No Comments »
Yep, in this town, you gotta hit the ground napping. The house has been a bustling hive of rearranging, dithering, semi-unpacking, and generally non-productive motion that nevertheless provides a comfortably pleasant buzz of nearly useful activity.
“But,” you might say, barging in discourteously and interrupting me in the midst of writing my letter [...]
Anguiano Held Hostage: Day 8
Posted in Amy, Held Hostage, Lafayette, tagged Amy, Lafayette, Cajuns on August 15, 2003 | No Comments »
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a reasonably new name for the university, which was previously known as the University of Southern Louisiana. Some of the local signs still refer to the university as “USL”, which one neighbor jokingly told us stood for the “university of slow learners.” Ah, local humor . . [...]
