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In honor of Halloween, I would like to present you with a video I helped create in college. It is entitled Karate Zombie, and I know I posted it here forever ago, but it is awesome. Make sure to have your sound on – I did the majority of the audio editing of the sound [...]

I just performed my civic duty and filled out my ballot. Oregon is fully vote-by-mail, so you get mailed a voting pamphlet and your ballot, and you can fill it out in the privacy of your own home. I have decided that this is one of the best ideas Oregon has ever had – you [...]

I found these at Ross this weekend and I totally love them: They’re bronze ballet flats by Seychelles. I tried to find them online so I could link to them, but Zappos didn’t know what I was talking about and I went through 30+ pages of search results on some other site with no luck, [...]

“Dry the Rain” – The Beta Band I am totally one of those people that had never heard of this band until they were mentioned by John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity: “I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by The Beta Band.” It’s such a nice song. It’s mellow, has a [...]

Work Most of my interesting stories recently have to do with workplace and client issues and I therefore can’t really share them. Just know that there are a lot of frustrating and crazy people in the world. Model Employee I won the “Team Player” award for this quarter and received a $100 gift card to [...]

Hating: Sarah Palin’s pronunciation of “nuclear,” the winking, the smarmy smile during rebuttals, and the shout-out to third-graders. Just… ugh. So unprofessional. Admiring: After Palin’s “I’M A MOM” shtick, Joe Biden’s choked-up response about being a single father after his wife and daughter were killed in an auto accident. Well played, sir, well played. I [...]