Congrats!!! :)

Somebody just had a beautiful baby girl named Audrey! Both mother & daughter & beautiful! (Poppa's not bad, either, but I haven't met him yet & don't need to scare him.) NEWAZ, my heartiest congratulations to yet another person whom I met when she was a freshman in college & now is a married parent! God, I feel so old! Much love to Angie & her little family! Best wishes always! :)

Voltando à tese…

Prezados! Escrevo de novo no meu amado português para conseguir até mais prática. Vou ter que trabalhar muito hoje e amanhã numa tentativa de acabar com um capítulo da tese. Finalmente soube o que é que é o meu problema de demorar tanto com este capítulo, embora eu ainda goste demais do assunto dele. Eis que eu não adiciono nada de mim entre a rede que tricoto das fontes da pesquisa. Simplesmente faço uma edição das MUITAS leituras que já fiz. Por isso, não mexe com nenhum sentido de criatividade própria neste capítulo. Por isso, escrevê-lo é cacete para chuchu! Pois é que sei que não posso deixar do capítulo a menos que eu dê a aparência de escrever à toa. Preciso de uma base sociológica e teórica. Constrói-se a tese da base ao ápice, né?

Dating caveats 101

1. Be aware of pick-up lines, especially if you have been living with two 80-year olds for 2 years and can no longer understand how people with a libido talk.

2. Be aware of pick-up lines that are more corny than either the whole state of Iowa or Nancy Kerrigan's Disney parade.

3. Be a little bolstered that someone would want to use such corny pick-up lines on you.

4. Nashville hotel mini-bars paid for by a software development company in Atlanta often contain many delicious and inhibition-busting agents.

5. Just because his father is a Lutheran minister, stop singing Dusty Springfield, at least quite so much.

6. Don't give your cell number to someone who will give you a booty call from 400 miles away.

7. Be just a little happy and/or smug that you got a booty call, though.

8. Don't give your cell number to someone who will later in the week give you a drunken call filled with racist rants that make you feel really fucking stupid and ashamed.

9. Make sure that said person's private ringtone is not set to Milkshake by Kelis so that people around you don't get a good giggle regardless.

10. Don't harp on it; move along; let something better happen. *sigh*

Cubs lose! Holy cow!!

That was a surprise. NOT!

Some huskers are more than likely annoyed by this development, but I hope it's at least not a shocker.

Divino Maravilhoso!

Versão de Gal Costa do filme "Bahia, por exemplo" de Rex Schindler

This song written by Caetano Veloso has long been a favorite. This is a version by my favorite interpreter of the song, Gal Costa.