Archive for December, 2006
Greek Withdrawals
After a full semester of going full throttle–work/school-study/homework-sleep–now that the semester is over I am finding that I am going through withdrawals. I was a bit depressed last weekend after taking my final exam on Thursday and found myself directionless for the first time in months. It wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that I realized, “Oh, [...]
Buy Nothing Christmas
My wife and I are really struggling this year. We both love Christmas but for various reasons, haven’t been very highly motivated to purchase gifts this year. Part of the reason is that we’re trying to save money for a couple of fairly expensive things we would like to have in 2007. We’d like to [...]
Fat man’s guide to losing weight fast
I googled the title of this post for grins and giggles this afternoon, partly because I really am a fat man in need of losing weight and partly because I was wondering if anyone else had thought of writing or searching for the same thing. What was I thinking? In a country filled to overflowing [...]