April Fools. No really, I’m working on some though. April Fools again. Actually though, I’ve got time to work on some though now that my week from hell is over. No seriously, April Fools again. You are so gullible. Gahd.

* Just updated typography on my new site. Going with just two: Tahoma/Verdana for content, Georgia for everything else. Results are…mixed. # * My prof says to eliminate all pause words in dialogue, but I’m much more of a naturalist. Is perfect dialogue too slick for most characters? # * @crowjonah If

So this week I am pleased and honored to be included in a tradition that started a few weeks ago over at my friend Crow and his friend Robin’s blogs. They’ve since added Caiti into the mix, and this week they’ve been nice enough to invite me

* Finished essay 1 on the Cold War, now transitioning to screenplay based on Desafinado. After that, moving to essay 2, Kant vs. Utilitarians. # * Finished screenplay based on Desafinado (Not to spoil the ending, but love is like a never ending melody). Bed, then only one essay left! # * The words ‘dear

* I’m also a pretty lousy photographer, which could have something to do with it. # * Do your photos always seem less vivid than friends’? I think it’s that we’ve lived our own, but have to fill in others’ with imagination. #

Take a look at Obama’s new Open for Questions website. In case you’re not familiar with the story, President Obama will be holding an online town hall tomorrow, and will take a series of questions from users on the WhiteHouse.gov website. The difference between this concept and

* My TF has a great collection of student essay-related terms, among them: “defensive grading” and “assertive insecurity” # * How much do you worry about repeating sentence structure in academic essays? I think I’ve already killed ‘Although Eisenhower X, he meant Y’ #

I’ve commented on this before, but sometimes news headlines can be completely misleading. Usually, the articles that follow them are even worse, because bad headlines often reflect either a bad or distracted editorial staff that for some reason places less weight on its headlines - essentially the most important

* Finding just the right shade of cool minty green to match the pink background on my site is one of the most tedious things I’ve ever done. # * Sleep is only a fleeting respite from the weight of our commitments, yet most bliss happens there. How cursed and blessed we

Now serving you from two convenient locations, http://gabestein.com (main URL), http://imaginaryblogworldblog.com (surreal URL). I hope you like the new look and content of my blog. The new retro-y design is mostly finished, but I’ll still be making some tweaks as time goes on. I hope