Libraries Gave Us Power...

...then work came and set us free.

I'm usually not a huge fan of Manic Street Preachers lyrics. They have a tendancy to fall into what sounds like sixth form (high school) poetry.

The opening line of A Design for Life is great though. Knowledge is power, and the attempt to cut library funding in Ohio is yet another attempt to take power from those who already have little.

Jungle Jim's

One of the best things about Cincinnati, and really the only place you HAVE to go to if you're passing through the city is Jungle Jim's. A supermarket to end all supermarkets, a food store the size of a small town. The only place where you can go to buy biscuits, PG tips, wine gums, ribena, crackers and all the other culinary essentials from England.

Hopefully they'll have something similar in Madison, but I doubt it. The cheese up there had better be damn good to be worth leaving the Jungle for.

Testing, testing...

OK, I'm sort of just testing this out. I've never posted anything before besides inside comment boxes. Right now I mostly don't have anything to say because my baby woke up five times last night after a week of sleeping through the night, and I'm a little beat. But I'm sure someday I'll have something interesting to say, so thanks for the invite, Keven!

And you'll get to hear another perspective about his mad years at B-school, a rational counter-point if you will, from his loving wife. Me. And yes, "Usher II" is a great little headtrip, especially if you've read Poe's original.

In case anyone is wondering. The title of this blog comes from one of the stories in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. A satire based on Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher called Usher 2. If you get a chance read it and you'll understand.

This blog has been around for ages, but has been sadly neglected as I have been doing many things that either take me away from my keyboard or expect me to do other things with it.

One of those things was applying to Business School.

I applied to University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Ohio State University in Columbus. I was already accepted onto the part-time program at Xavier University in Cincinnati as back-up.

I was accepted into UW on a full-ride scholarship, was turned down by Michigan, and turned down Ohio State.

So now I'm coming closer to the date when I have to leave Cincinnati and move to the great white (not quite Canadian) north. I figure I can use this blog to keep track of what I'm sure will be a mad period in my life and also to allow friends I have in Cinci to see what I'm up to (if they feel the need!)