funny, smart and important: of phones and names

"I don't have anything against Republicans. Just Republican policies." - Steven Colbert

"If holiness is happening, it is happening in the thick of reality, not replacing the world as we know, not banishing death, but defying its terror as the last word."
- Krista Tippett

Bulls vs. literary critics:
"Bulls don't run reviews. Bulls of 25 don't marry old women of 55 and expect to be invited to dinner. Bulls do not get you cited as co-respondent in Society divorce trials. Bulls don't borrow money. Bulls are edible after they have been killed." -Ernest Hemingway

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
-Kurt Vonnegut

"The majority of women (happily for society) are not very much troubled with sexual feelings of any kind... Love of home, of children, and of domestic duties are the only of any kind." - William Acton, British physician, 1875

“A stern man is a stern man. A stern woman is a bitch.”

March 23, 2009

of phones and names

Two things:

-once I set the alarm on my new phone, it tells me how long it is until that alarm. So when I set my alarm last night after getting back into New Haven late, it said, "This alarm will go off in 5 hours, 58 minutes" or more colloquially, "You have 5 hours, 58 minutes until you have to drag your tired ass out of bed."

-I am officially changing my middle name from Marie to Murray. I've been thinking about doing this for over a year now, and I had to confirm the name on my Yale diploma today. It seemed like a good place to start. I think now I have to call lots of places and have them change my name on my accounts (specifically banks).

The end.