Entries from February 2005

A better Valentine’s Day than I am used to

Date February 17, 2005

I had a grand old plan last week to post every day using the name of the day in the post title (Super Monday, Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, etc.), but Thursday night as I was lying in bed drifting off to sleep I realized I’d screwed up and not posted that day. Probably for [...]

Ash Wednesday

Date February 9, 2005

Last night’s Mardi Gras party was a lot of fun. It mostly consisted of most of us standing around in the kitchen and talking and laughing. Erika and her roommate had gotten a fair amount of snack-type food, so there was plenty to bunch on, but so that I wasn’t eating snack food [...]

Fat Tuesday

Date February 8, 2005

Ah, Mardi Gras. The day before Lent when you’re supposed to live it up; eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. OK, so not really die, but traditionally give up something important to you. I give up the same thing for Lent every year, and every year I’m completely successful [...]

Super Monday

Date February 7, 2005

The Super Bowl manages to amaze me every year, both in the spectacle that surrounds it both the day of and the weeks leading up to it, and also because such a big deal is made about it year after year, even knowing that it’ll be the exact same thing a year from now.
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