I was cruising some nerdy shit on the 'net this afternoon and came across something about some arcane field of study that interested me, so I went to the UT English department website and found something better. A course in lexicography. Without a moment of haste, I wrote to the professor asking if I might audit the course come fall. There are hardly any college-level courses in lexicography, especially outside of Europe, so the fact that this is happening in Austin is a total thrill.
A big nerdy thrill I couldn't appreciate at 22 but do now.
Bob was eyeballing a pizza and gyro place next to the tai chi studio (still don't know what the technical term for it is. It is not "dojo" as that is Japanese and Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art) so we came home and changed out of our uniforms and went back. I gave Yelp a quick glance and saw that it had a bunch of thumbs-up reviews. It was really tasty! It's called Arpeggio Grill and the presence of an obviously Muslim staff/clientele indicates that their meat is halal. We had a pizza with gyro meat on it and it was super tasty. We recommend!
UPDATE: Borpe just described McCain's "man meat" as "bacon wrapped around a Slim Jim."
Posted by Zerd at June 5, 2008 07:30 PMCorrection: I said Joe Lieberman was sucking John McCain so hard it looked like a piece of bacon wrapped around a Slim Jim. The invective was aimed at my "favorite" senator, the opportunist turncoat gentleman from Connecticut.
Posted by: Bob at June 6, 2008 10:51 AM