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[smick]

...drive 170 of some of the most harrowing miles of my life in order to get a friend to the airport for the holidays. I went off the road at one point. Thankfully I have 4wd and studded snow tires, and the ditch wasn't deep, so I didn't need to call a truck. Others were not so lucky.

While the road between Pullman and Spokane isn't a treat...ever, in bad conditions the road between Moscow and Pullman always freaked me out.  (The ladyfriend's Mom owned a house on the other side of the hill from Greek Row in Moscow.)

[lprkn]

It's actually a lot better now. They made it 4 lanes a couple of years ago. According to the old timers, the Idaho 18 year old drinking age is what really made the old "Highway of Death" fun, though.

[KeithHernandez]

So you can't be well read and also like ultimate frisbee?

[CortJstr]

Oh man, at summer camp whenever we had more than 90 seconds of down time we'd start up a game of ultimate frisbee or four square. Unless it was raining, in which case it was spades and egyptian rat screw.

[lprkn]

egyptian rat screw

?

[miles]

?

It's exactly what it sounds like.

[theinevitable]

I mean, you can be.

But the reputation is not that he IS well-read, it's that he tries to act like he is, but cannot back it up.

[littlefallsmets]

A male college student with a desire to be seen as sensitive and intellectual without actually putting in the work, listening to Dave Matthews?

My mind is blown.

[Golfhaus]

...get punched in the nuts all day long, figuratively speaking, and have a terrier we're pup-sitting headbutt me in the nuts twice, literally speaking.

[theinevitable]

i just realized what is going on here, I am not sure why I did not before:

I have been assigned a roommate out of the set "juniors who could not find anyone to live with them." Because, why else would you put in to be assigned random housing?

OK. It will be fine.

[lprkn]

I would imagine he probably just keeps to himself, and has few friends. For some reason, douchebags usually don't have any trouble finding other douchebags to pal around with, in my experience.

[CortJstr]

egyptian rat screw

?

It's a slapping card game. You have to get hold of the entire deck to win, kind of like War. There's a needlessly complex Wikipedia page, if you're really curious.

[theinevitable]

Today, workmen come to install a peep-hole in our door due to University Regulations, despite the fact that our door has a window in it. A big window.

[miles]

Today, workmen come to install a peep-hole in our door due to University Regulations, despite the fact that our door has a window in it. A big window.

At first glance I read it as having a peep hole so campus officials can look in to monitory activity. I'm assuming it's so you can look out for your safety, right?

[wombat]

.... spend an hour going to the post office, mostly waiting on line, to mail Christmas presents just before the last possible minute.

Then find out that there is a problem with my friend's webpage, of course only in Internet Explorer. Will someone please explain why people still use that fuck*ng Microsoft crap?

Then, fix the page as follows: Instead of commenting out the offending code, I deleted it. Goddam that should NOT work differently.

Then somehow spend the whole rest of the morning on email, including, forgetting that I meant to try to take some time off over the holidays, an email suggesting a story idea, to which I immediately get back the answer "Great! How about for January 5th?"

And now it is lunchtime and I have accomplished basically nothing except making more work for myself.