Welcome to the Almost All-New, Mostly Improved, Certainly More Updated "Cindy's Crazy Page-O-Rama"!


I'll let you in on a little secret: I have totally forgotten how to write certain key html commands, such that I can't take down this wretchedly outdated, outmoded webpage. I mean, these days, all the hip kids are doing blogs, right?


But, I soldier on, confident that this is an exercise in silly journal-keeping anyway, as no one I know has checked this thing for years. Years, I tell you!
So, on to the real fun: links to stuff. I have grouped them into Fun, Geeky, Cool, and Miscellaneous Affiliations, but these are editorial suggestions. Feel free to recategorize them in your head in ways that reflect your own preferences and personality! Except Miscellaneous Affiliations. Those are actually mine.

FUN


Television Without Pity Sigh. Here is a mighty enterprise of witty people who produce truly epic levels of snark. My TV/Movie Nitpicker's Page has committed suicide in shame.
PhD Comicswill give you a frighteningly accurate idea of what grad student life is like... this is why only grad students find it funny, and then weep bitterly afterward.
The Onion is another of those 'how did I not know about this sooner?' things; also, another opportunity to weep bitterly through your laughter at the state of the world.
I'm not trying to insinuate that you don't know about Dave Barry, nor even trying to prove that I do, but rather, I'm putting in this link in case you suddenly realized there was a new weekly column out, and what are you doing reading this other webpage in the meantime?

Geeky


Homestar Runner could very easily be filed under the Cool section, or the Fun section, but since I couldn't decide between the two, it ended up in Geeky. Sue me.
Penny Arcade ComicsDefinitely blame Mike for this one. Not only geeky, but gamer-specific jokes wrapped in palpable layers of geeky.
One of the most amusing bizarre finds I came upon when lazily verifying a Pride and Prejudice quote via Google. P&P meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer I think I need say no more.
Stephen Brust, a fantasy writer whose work I both love and hate (though not simultaneously), who blogs vaguely and sporadically. I don't mind, as I'm still waiting for his next Vlad book.
Neil Gaiman, whom I have loved ever since the Sandman series, and liked passionately ever since Good Omens, Neil's blogging seems like an enterprise unto itself -- but maybe I just don't get out enough.


Miscellaneous Affiliations


Mount Holyoke College, my lovely alma mater, actually supports this page, though god knows they're still waiting to see a return on their investment in me.
Cambria Biosciences took me in while the ink on my MHC diploma was still, metaphorically, drying. Four lovely and profitable years of grownup life and furniture-buying later, and I somehow got the hankering to go back to school
So then, Boston University accepted me to their MCBB PhD program, where I am now a second-year student, dreading the upcoming prelims and looking forward to a life of near-poverty and frustration -- er, academic fulfillment. If this were a blog, I would have many fine stories about my students....
Lest you think it's all work and academics for me, feast your eyes on Coro Allegro, the fabulous choir in which I sing. In fact, come see our next concert!

The official Andy Stochansky webpage. He is an excellent musician, singer/song-writer, and all-around cutie. Formerly Ani DiFranco's drummer. Sounds like Bono. Seriously. Sounds like Bono, but without the "rock" feeling (not that I don't love U2). I've seen him perform twice, and both were amazing experiences. I could go on and on, but, uh, then you would be bored. Far better to hear him yourself.

The Simpsons Archive Only ignorance of its existence can excuse me for not having put up a link to this page sooner. And I thought I knew a lot about the Simpsons. Great links, episode capsules with a whole lot of commentary, and lists of crazy stuff. (Ever want to know everything Troy McClure was supposedly in? They've got it)


Acknowledgements:

I'd like to thank my wonderful boyfriend Mike, who enables my terrible web-surfing/email- and webpage-writing habit by being hideously addicted to various computer games of his own.

Also on my list of thanks (in no particular order):
My BU students, for teaching me the value of patience and repetition,
Mount Holyoke, without which there would still be no page,
My TV, without which I would long ago have lost the will to live
My friends, family, and, gosh, all the little people....


email me! Really!

Under Construction. Forever.

This page last (partially) updated December 29, 2004, in a desperate attempt to avoid studying for the prelims.